Outlook.com Calendar birthdays sync issue

Anonymous
2014-05-08T18:55:35+00:00

Cannot sync birthdays from people to calendar... Help!!        

I have manually added birthdays to certain people in my Microsoft account ('@outlook.com')...

 these birthdays are supposed to automatically sync to my Calendar once added to a contact...

t's been 48 hrs and the birthdays are not updating to the calendar...

I have also tried to delete the birthday calendar and add it back...

I have tried to re-edit the relevant contact to see if it will update to calendar, but that also doesn't work...

I have Nokia Windows Phone 8 and I am using the Microsoft account with the phone...

The contacts are syncing fine with the phone, but the birthday calendar can't update until this problem is resolved...

I desperately want to get all my contacts, birthdays, calendar entries synced

I have also tried to add a birthday in calendar for a contact name I already have in people this then  creates a duplicate contact I then go to manage, clean up contacts this is then fine until about 24 hours later you then have duplicate birthdays

Please help!!!

Original title: outlook.com birthdays

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  1. Anonymous
    2015-01-30T19:44:40+00:00

    Hi

    The "solution" I found is delete this lame calendar as the service is obviously not functional, since months ! A habit at Microsoft, not to solve some problems for years ! (for instance : "Outlook keeps on asking for credentials" : bug existing since Outlook 2003, and still in Outlook 2013, 12 years without solving a bug ! World Record !)

    For the record, I also gave up with my Windows Phone : too many sync issues (OneDrive documents, contacts, birthdays, etc.).

    For now, I check birthdays on my iPhone. It works perfectly... And any change is pushed within seconds.

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-01-21T00:04:20+00:00

    So I've just noticed this problem too. Is there no fix yet? That seems ridiculous that such an obviosu fault is sitll occuring. What's the update moderators? What is being done to fix this problem?

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-01-18T23:49:57+00:00

    Yeah, I did something similar to that to get my Google Contacts birthday calendar shared with this Calendar. I had to copy every birthday event manually into a new calendar.

    But here I don't see a way to copy events from one calendar to another. And even if there were a way to copy events, I wouldn't know whether all the birthdays had actually showed up on my original "Birthday calendar" at the time I copied them over.

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-01-18T23:39:09+00:00

    Sorry if I wasn't clear.

    1. Look at the top of the screen where it says "Calendar", "New", "Import", "Share", etc.
    2. Right after "New" you should a thin bar and then a little downward-facing arrow symbol. Click on it.
    3. From the drop-down menu that shows up, choose "Birthday Calendar". The rest should be self-explanatory.

    But yeah, this isn't a permanent solution to the problem of disappearing birthdays.

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-01-18T23:31:15+00:00

    Well, the problem did reappear. I recently noticed a Skype contact's birthday which wasn't on the Calendar. This time, simply refreshing my "Birthday calendar" got this contact's birthday and several others' birthdays (which I hadn't noticed missing) back.

    It's very annoying that the Calendar isn't reliable.

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