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It’s roughly relocating time! We’ve been bustling removing Windows Live Calendar ready so that we can pierce all MSN Calendar business over to the brand brand new as well as softened have use of upon Windows Live.

Over the entrance months, we’ll be relocating all interpretation from existent MSN Calendar business over to Windows Live Calendar. The pierce will be gradual, that is, not everybody will see their calendars shift upon the same day.

If you’re usually perplexing Windows Live Calendar for the initial time, we might notice that whilst MSN Calendar already gave we easy scheduling of appointments, reminders, as well as monthly monthly monthly calendar sharing, Windows Live Calendar gives we even more:

• Multiple calendars that can be away colored as well as common
• An easy approach to concede to open (iCal) online calendars
• Drag-and-drop rescheduling of events
• Holiday calendars formed upon your place
• A birthday monthly monthly monthly calendar that pulls dates from your Windows Live hit list
• A to-do list to assistance keep we orderly (we’ll pierce all of your MSN Calendar’s tasks as well as records in to your brand brand new Windows Live to-do list)

Here’s what we need to know for the move:

• If we usually entrance your MSN Calendar by the web, we’ll pierce all your things for you. You won’t have to do anything.
• If we have use of Microsoft Office Outlook to perspective your calendar, have certain you’re regulating the newest chronicle of Outlook Connector. This will concede Outlook to bond without delay to your Windows Live Calendar. To find out that chronicle of Outlook Connector you’re using, open Outlook, click Outlook Connector as well as afterwards name About Outlook Connector. If the chronicle series is 12.0.6414.1000 or greater, you’re great to go. If not, you’ll need to download as well as implement the ultimate version.
• If you’ve published publically or common any of your MSN Calendars, you’ll need to tell or share them again in Windows Live Calendar.

That’s it—we’ll do the rest.

Note: Windows Live Calendar doesn’t now support displaying attachments or promulgation reminders to the delegate e-mail address.

See we upon Windows Live Calendar!

My final post talked about how to emanate the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar badge. Assuming you’ve right away combined the cold brand brand new badge, we substantially wish to customize it so which it matches your website.

You need to know the small simple HTML. Follow these stairs to give your pinned token the brand brand new look:

1. First we need to confirm what to uncover in your badge. The pinned token displays both the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar grid as well as the eventuality list by default.  To uncover usually the grid, supplement the question parameter “l=m” to the iframe tag.  To uncover usually the eventuality list, supplement “l=a” instead.

2. Next we can select the breadth of your badge. There have been dual choices:  141 pixels or 194 pixels. To have it 141 pixels, supplement the question parameter “w=n”; to go wider during 194 pixels, shift it to “w=w”.

3. You can additionally select the tallness of the eventuality list. There have been 4 opposite heights to select from:

a. For the reduced eventuality list (shows the single event): Add “h=s”

b. For middle (3 events): Add “h=m”

c. For medium-tall (5 events): Add “h=mt”

d. For high (7 events): Add “h=t”

The series of events shown is approximate.  The distance of the badge’s monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar grid is not influenced by the tallness of the eventuality list.

4. Now it’s time to give your pinned token the little color. There have been 6 colors in the pinned token which we can change:

Generate the HTML tone IDs for your 6 colors as well as afterwards pass them in the question parameter, creation certain to leave out the “#” which is routinely partial of the tone code. It should demeanour similar to this:

c=<backgroundColorId>|<borderColorId>|<textColorId>|<alternateTextColorId>|<linkColorId>|<selectionColorId>

Note: We usually accept the 3 or six-digit numeric tone codes, not the tone names.

Finally, the iframe itself has measure as well as borders which can usually be tranquil by your page’s code.  You’ll need to set the iframe’s distance so which your pinned token will fit. Also, give it the support limit of 0 as well as set scrolling to “no”. You can do this with true HTML or the multiple of HTML as well as CSS.

Let’s put this all together in an example. We’ll emanate the tall, far-reaching pinned token with both the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar grid as well as eventuality list. We’ll have the credentials white as well as the borders as well as categorical content black. We’ll give it gray swap text, lavender links, as well as the bluish day preference highlight. Substitute in your own user formula as well as monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar name (see this post for how to get those), as well as your badge’s iframe tab will demeanour similar to this:

<iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" width="194" height="692" src="http://calendar.live.com/calendar/badgeif.aspx?pid=p&user=<userCode>&cal=<calendarName>&h=t&w=w&l=ma&c=ffffff|000000|000000|cccccc|9999ff|ddeeff" />

That’s all there is to it. Happy customizing!

-Evan

We’re happy to make known which Windows Live Hotmail is integrating present messaging capabilities inside of a web interface. With this functionality, you can get your email as well as IM all in a single place!  This underline lets you IM your Windows Live Messenger contacts from inside of your Hotmail inbox or People page but carrying to switch over to a Messenger client.

The underline arrives currently in Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, a Netherlands, Norway, as well as a US, as well as joins countries which rolled out web follower final month (France, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, as well as a UK). Not in your embankment yet? We will be rolling web-based follower to some-more locations in a entrance months.

Send an present summary from anywhere – With this brand brand new feature, you’ll right away have present messaging capabilities when you make use of a open or differently common computer, but carrying to download a customer program.  Already logged in to Messenger elsewhere?  Not a problem  — you have a choice to sign-in (or sign-out) from Hotmail by a “Messenger” dump down menu even if you have been sealed in to a customer elsewhere.

Some of we gifted an surprising summary when we sealed in to Windows
Live Hotmail upon Thursday dusk (PST) which pronounced “You don’t have an
inbox…yet.” Rest positive which your email is safe! The improper message
was caused by a networking emanate which we encountered whilst doing
routine maintenance. We have prepared a complaint as well as we should be
able to entrance your Hotmail comment during this time. We swallow ones pride for any
inconvenience which was caused by this issue, as well as we appreciate we for using
Hotmail.

Do we have the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar you’d similar to to share with the world?  With Windows Live Calendar, we can emanate the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar pinned token to post upon your blog or website. That way, any one can see your monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar from any browser.

Here’s what the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar pinned token looks like:

You can pierce brazen as good as back in time by clicking possibly the date or the month arrows.  The eventuality list shows events starting from the highlighted day. It will uncover as most as will fit inside of the badge’s height. (My subsequent blog post will uncover we how to regulate the distance of your badge.)

Here’s how we emanate the badge:

1. Click upon the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar which you’d similar to to share — we can find your list of calendars upon the left side of the page.

2. This brings up the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar settings page. Click Edit sharing, and afterwards Share this calendar.

3. Check the box for Make your Calendar public, as good as afterwards click Get your monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar links.

4. Click Preview in the web browser—the cocktail up shows the URL similar to this:

http://cid-235e8e235b98a7295.calendar.live.com/calendar/My+calendar/index.html.  This can be the small tricky, though I’ve attempted to have it elementary for you. For the monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar pinned token URL, the dual critical tools have been your user formula (cid-235e8e235b98a7295) as good as your calendar’s published name (My+calendar).  You will make use of these values in the last step.

5. Some monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar edition URLs might not be in the format shown in step 4. If the URL doesn’t begin with “http://cid-”, click the Profile couple during the tip of the page. When the form page has loaded, the URL will demeanour something similar to this: “http:// cid-235e8e235b98a7295.profile.live.com/?…” Your user formula is there in the URL.

6. Build the HTML dash for the pinned token regulating the user formula as good as monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly monthly calendar published name. Take the following HTML formula as good as reinstate [user-code] with your user formula as good as [calendar-name] with your calendar’s published name. You can afterwards re-use this HTML dash anywhere we wish to uncover the pinned token for which calendar.

<iframe src=http://calendar.live.com/calendar/badgeif.aspx?user=[user-code]&cal=[calendar-name]></iframe>

One fold for we savvy bloggers as good as web designers is which the pinned token won’t conform your page’s CSS. But fright not, the pinned token can still be customized so which it functions good in any web page. I’ll leave the sum of how to customize your pinned token for the subsequent post.

Happy sharing!

-Evan

We have been wakeful which a little of we might be experiencing worry accessing your Windows Live Hotmail accounts. We’re actively questioning a means as well as have been operative to repair this as fast as possible. We unequivocally swallow ones pride for any nuisance as well as intrusion this might be causing you.

The Windows Live Hotmail Team

Update:  Service has been easy for all users, as well as we’re receiving stairs to have certain this doesn’t occur again.  Thanks again for your patience, as well as we’ll have certain to keep we updated.