#HOW TO SYNC OUTLOOK CALENDAR TO ICLOUD INSTALL#

In retrospect, there may have been a way to make it work and I was just doing something wrong. I could not get it to work with Outlook contacts. I was trying to use an app (ContactsXL) that sets up groups for group messaging. Maybe this will work for Hotmail and other connectors supplied by Microsoft, too.Īnd - no - I am not affiliated to this company.

If the tool runs into a MAPI error (happened several times for some mailing lists or weird contacts) it shows the error and stops (instead of caring on doing whatever can be done BUT the good news is that if you restart the tool it will continue where it left off so it might take a while but after 5 to 6 times I had all my contacts in iCloud apart those that had issues).Īnyhow you might check this out for calendars, too (I did this for a sample calendar but had really lots of MAPI errors that required a lot of restarts of the sync).

You can configure different folders to be synced (will be done in sequence) but you cannot change this sequence afterwards (I started off with the Exchange -> iCloud sync and wanted to add some backup to another local folder upfront if data gets accidentally destroyed in iCloud).

There is no option to select either one-way or two-way syncing (it is always two-way which is not really what I want, I'd prefer one-way Exchange->iCloud).The sync has to be kicked-off manually (via an icon that installs into the ribbon).I installed this tool and configured the tool to sync my (more or less) local contacts folder with my newly created iCloud contacts folder. Finally I found a company called CodeTwo (offering an Outlook plug-in named 'FolderSync' for free. So I did some research for tools that are capable of syncing Outlook folders within Outlook itself.

#HOW TO SYNC OUTLOOK CALENDAR TO ICLOUD INSTALL#

It seems that any 'sync option' one is going to install within Outlook simply adds some new folders but actually there is nothing I would really call 'syncing'. My approach: Look for a solution that allows copying data within Outlook locally.

My painpoint: A clear segragation (private/business) is not an option for me (BTW: This is true for the calendar as well if I am out of the office for some private reasons it does not make any sense to have such appointments entered in a different calendar because this would not reflect availability in the office). My issue: The primary source of information is my Exchange account so I have the data available on my iPhone but unfortunately not at home on my Macs. My objective: I want to have my contacts available on iCloud and all attached Macs. I just want to share an approach that made my day.

How to sync outlook calendar to icloud