Outlook.com Calendar birthdays sync issue

Hi Francesco,

We are sorry for the delayed response. And we appreciate your patience on this matter.

Let me help you with your concern about your issues in Outlook.com Calendar especially when it comes to Birthday Calendar.

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Thank you.

I have the same issue.

Here are Outlook.com features for what concerns Birthday as listed in http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/outlook/calendar-add-birthdays

Calendar is connected to your contact list in People

• If you add a birthday to a contact in People, the birthday will be added to your calendar.
• If you add a birthday in Calendar, and the name you enter matches someone in your contact list, the birthday will be added to their contact.
• If you add a birthday in Calendar, and the person isn't in your contact list, they'll be added.

Here is my user experience with these features:

• If I add a birthday to a contact in People, the birthday will be added to my calendar most of times. For some reasons, some contacts birthday in People will not show in the Birthday Calendar, regardless of time for sync, syncing manually, deleting and re-adding the birthday in People.
• If I add a birthday in Calendar, and the name I enter matches someone in my contact list, the birthday will NOT be added to their contact, but instead, a new contact duplicate will be created in People.
• If I add a birthday in Calendar, and the person isn't in my contact list, they'll be added. This works just fine, but I find it the least desidarable feature of the three: what if I just want to remember a birthday and do not want that person as a contact? - i.e. Small kids, very old aunts, my favourite novel author, etc.

Are there any actions, that I am not aware of, I could do to have all People's birthdays synced with the Birtday Calendar?

Thanks for your attention.

Francesco

Hi 7simonchapman,

Welcome to Microsoft Community!

We would like to apologize for not replying in a timely manner. I understand that you are having difficulty in using your Outlook.com Calendar in syncing with your account, let me help you

Please be informed that you need to access your Outlook.com Calendar options by clicking on the gear icon and choose "options" , then choose your "Birthday  calendar". Look for the word "Refresh now" and kindly click it. Once you have clicked that option it will sync all of your contacts from your People page.

I hope this will help with your concern and let us know the result.

Thank you,

Hi I have done as above but no birthdays have been transferred from people to calendar even after waiting 48 hours , I also noticed that it said it had synced half hour before anyway .

I hope you can help further

many thanks

Hi 7simonchapman,

Welcome to Microsoft Community!

We would like to apologize for not replying in a timely manner. I understand that you are having difficulty in using your Outlook.com Calendar in syncing with your account, let me help you

Please be informed that you need to access your Outlook.com Calendar options by clicking on the gear icon and choose "options" , then choose your "Birthday  calendar". Look for the word "Refresh now" and kindly click it. Once you have clicked that option it will sync all of your contacts from your People page.

I hope this will help with your concern and let us know the result.

Thank you,