Still having issues with Admin Center and MX

18. August 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
This is my third attempt and making the MX record for tacummings.com - I have other domains using outlook.com but this domain I cannot seem to make work. I have verified both times before via nslookup that the MX record is the one that the Windows Live Admin console is asking for. Both times I waited several hours and had to revert back to google apps which they are currently using daily.

I decided to try over the weekend and its been hours and still the wizard says "It may take a few minutes to complete the changes to your service. Please check back later."

I will have to revert back to google apps today if it is not resolved. Added the issue to a previous ticket I had open in the community but decided to open a brand new ticket as noone has responded to it and its been a couple hours.

Any help is much appreciated. I have left it with the required mx record from windows live admin for review for the time being.

MX record issue – again

28. July 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: ,
Hello all,

There are many of us out there suffering this problem. I have successfully created an MX record for one domain. However, I am attempting to do the same with a second to no avail. 

The first was actually more complicated as I moved from Google to Live.com and yet that was successful after a week of tinkering.

My mx data is as follows:
  • DNS record type: MX
  • Host: elitelanguagetraining.com
  • MX server: 4a655e4bf63cc149b0b8cc661086be.pamx1.hotmail.com
  • TTL: 3600 or 1 hour
  • Priority: 10 (or High priority)

All of which has been correctly input to my host's (GoDadyy.com) DNS manager. I have deleted all MX records and repeated the process several times. However, no matter how often I hit refresh on the live centre admin panel i cannot get the email account to activate.

No I need to change nameservers or any other settings in the DNS centre?

If not, there surely must be a solution as so many users suffer the same issue and I have managed to get a separate email account working after locating the conflict between Google MX records and hotmail MX records. N.B. There are no other MX records present with the domain listed above. there are other DNS records - could any of these be the problem?

Please advise.

Thank you

Domain Ownership through DNS not working

25. July 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , , ,
I have this configured in my DNS. I do not want to add email and MX until I have user accounts created and some mobile phone issues resolved.

Prove domain ownership (optional)
If you would like to prove the ownership of domain and create users without setting up mail, you can use one of the following methods for up to 30 days. After 30 days, you will need to set up an MX record for mail routing as shown above.
If your domain registrar allows you to create TXT records, use these settings:
  • DNS record type: TXT
  • Host: stipe.co
  • Value: v=msv1 t=f556dd14265d7f4095bd38ad5ee87b

The TXT records is live (see http://www.whatsmyip.us/txt:stipe.co) yet when I hit Refresh, the error will not go away.


Am I doing something wrong? What do I need to do next? Please note: I DO NOT want to change MX at this time.


I’m still trying to add my Domain on Windows Live Admin

25. July 2013 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail, Outlook.com · Tags: , ,
Hello Microsoft Community Team,

Greetings!

I've a domain SWASTIKALLIED.IN, for which I'ad tried to add on Windows Live Admin several moths ago.

First of all there was problem of "Protected Word or Inappropriate Language".

Then after contacting Microsoft Community the problem was resolved.

Then I faced a new problem, after adding the domain & setting up the MX & TXT Record of the domain as per instruction over Live Admin, the "Domain Settings" was not getting Refreshed.

Again when I'ad contacted Microsoft Community, I got various type of suggestion from them, like 'Set up MX Record perfectly', 'Change The Admin Account', 'Try to add the domain from different account'.

But none of the tricks got work.

And every time there was reply against reply & reply, some of them was open, some was Private Reply, over every single thread. But no result.

Domain Settings is not getting Refreshed, MX Record is not getting validated.

Finally I stopped trying.

But in the meantime I have successfully added near about another 5 domains over Windows Live Admin with the same process & even on the same hosting server, & all of them working fine.

Recently I've moved the domain to different Domain Control Panel & also hosted the domain on a different server.

Now when I'ad tried to add the domain again on Windows Live Admin using a new Microsoft Id., but the problem is same, status is 'Pending Changes'.

I think there are still some restriction on the domain, for which the domain is not getting added on Live Admin.

Can anyone please arrange the real solution of the problem?


P.S.: Please don't reply with "Configure your MX Record perfectly", I'm not a stupid, the MX Record is configured perfectly as per instruction over Windows Live Admin Center. 

Thanks!

Is there a way to determine the MX records hotmail is using for sending to a particular domain?

19. June 2012 · Write a comment · Categories: Hotmail · Tags: , , , , , ,

I have a domain that hotmail is rejecting sending mail to with 5.5.0 "no such user" except the Returning-MTA is Hotmail, not the MX record for the domain (which I have access to and see no connections from hotmail)

How do I determine why Hotmail is rejecting sending to this domain or the MX record it is using?

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