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

Outlook | Web | Outlook.com | Calendar

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-08-14T14:01:04+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for the information you have provided. Please be informed that I have already forwarded your concern to our support specialist for a more in depth investigation. Please check this thread from time to time for updates regarding your concern. Your patience is highly appreciated.

    If you will notice any changes or additional error message, please let us know.

    Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-08-15T07:14:28+00:00

    Hi,

    I have the same problem, too.

    I missed some birthdays recently.

    Until the begin of June it worked fine and I got remembered for all my birthday correctly on my Lumia 920.

    Then I was in Brasil using a Lumia 630 with WP 8.1 and did not care about birthdays, as I prescheduled a programmed SMS in advanced for the importan birthdays.

    Now I am back and since End of July, beginning of August I realise that many birthdays are missing and the birthday calendar seems not to be reliable anymore.

    Hope this issue will get solved soon...

    Best wishes

    Gerry Kammerer

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-08-18T15:11:41+00:00

    Hello Gerry,

    Thank you for bringing this concern to our attention.

    First of all, we apologize for the late response. I understand that you're having the same issue as the original poster. It would be helpful if you could provide us the troubleshooting steps you've performed before posting your concern in this forum. This is to ensure that we will not repeat the actions that you've taken.

    Also, please provide us the answers to the questions below for us to investigate deeper on your issue.

    • Account in question.
    • Sample of the missing Birthday Calendar.
    • Screen shot of the missing Birthday Calendar.
    • Screen shot of the contact's information via People page that shows the Birthday of your contact/s.
    • Were the missing Birthday Calendar came from the connected services (Facebook, Twitter and etc.)?
    • Does the issue happens after refreshing your Birthday Calendar?

    Note: You need to click the notification that states You have a private reply to this message. Click here to read it on our secure private message section or by clicking the Private Messages tab.

    We look forward to hearing from you.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-08-23T19:04:07+00:00

    Hi,

    Thank you for posting in the Microsoft Community forum.

    I understand you're having issues with your Outlook.com Birthday calendar. We're sorry for the inconvenience. Let me assist you.

    This thread have multiple posts from different users. Some users stopped dead on their tracks and we weren't able to gather enough information from them. There's one user here who went through the troubles with us doing some troubleshooting and in the end, got this issue escalated.

    We haven't heard form the escalations team though. 

    The more info they have about this, the faster they can isolate the issue.

    Yes, we're interested about investigating your concern. Before we ask for your email address, please tell us the things you've done so far in your attempt to fix this on your own.

    Thank you.

    I have the same issue. One day I noticed some comtacts birthays are missing. This is happens for pure outlook.com contacts and contacts with linkes profiles (skype).

    • adding a new birthday for a contact in the birthday calander adds a new outlook.com contact, even id the contact already exists. But a birthday is added...
    • changeing the birthday of a "broken" contact does not help
    • unlink "broken" contacts was not helpful

    I did everytime a manual sync of thr calander (in the birthdays calander options)

    Here some screens:

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-08-28T13:56:47+00:00

    Hi WhiteBahamut,

    We appreciate your time for posting your concern here in Microsoft Community.

    We really want to help you sort this issue. Before we can do this, we need your cooperation by providing us the information that I've requested on the above post (August 18, 2014).

    Note: You need to click the notification that states You have a private reply to this message. Click here to read it on our secure private message section or by clicking the Private Messages tab.

    We look forward to hearing from you.

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