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
    2014-12-06T09:15:51+00:00

    Did any of you all try my November 24. suggestion on page 10?

    I know the post is quite long, but still ... it works here. So far.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T10:40:10+00:00

    Well hurrah! I've just tried deleting my birthday calendar and then re-adding and all my contacts Birthdays are now appearing.

    Worth mentioning tho that I'm only linked to Skype so this may not work for people who are linked to Facebook etc!

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T12:00:50+00:00

    Been there, done that.  Several times already. 

    At first everything seemed okay.  Facebook and Skype are no longer linked.  Still, I have lost birthdays from some People contacts. 

    Reimporting the contacts or disabling 3rd party contacts is only a temporary solution.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-06T12:22:24+00:00

    Yupp. The loss of birthdays in the calanders has nothing todo with 3rd party links (nor directly). I still have contacts that are not linked to any 3rd party and yet the birthdays disappeared from the calander. And these people have no skype or fb account at all!

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  5. Anonymous
    2014-12-07T12:21:52+00:00

    Been there, done that.  Several times already. 

    At first everything seemed okay.  Facebook and Skype are no longer linked.  Still, I have lost birthdays from some People contacts. 

    Reimporting the contacts or disabling 3rd party contacts is only a temporary solution.

     

    Thank you for confirming my nagging suspicion that reimporting the contacts is only a temporary solution, although it has been stable for several weeks for me this time.

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