Setting up a hotmail account on android with your own domain

Whenever you want to add a hotmail account to your android device, to be able to sync your email/calendar/contacs in your phone, and you have your own domain, feel free to follow this post.

For the sake of this example, lets suppose we have the domain planetexpress.com and our user us bender, hence our email address is bender@planetexpress.com.

Add account, and select Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync:

Add your email and password. Hit Manual setup:

Add Domain\User name, Password. Leave the domain blank, just put \@
Set Exchange server to m.hotmail.com
Leave Use secure connection (SSL) checked
Hit Next:

Select your desired setup:
Peak schedule: how often does the application check for email in work hours (08:00 to 18:00).
Off-peak schedule: how often does the application check for email in work hours (18:00 to 08:00).
Period to sync email: up to how much time in the past will the application show your emails?.
Emails retrieval size: when viewing an email, this downloads the header plus the specified size.
Period to sync Calendar: up to how much time in the past will the application show your calendar?.
Hit Next:
Give the account a name. This does not have any effect other than helping you recognize this account among othe Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync accounts.
Finally, hit Done: