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
    2015-03-10T10:06:00+00:00

    I have to confirm, some standalone Outlook.com contacts are missing in Birthdays calendar.

    This issue is reported since months! Might get assumed that just syncing a Birthdays calendar properlyshouldn't mean rocket science for a company like Microsoft ...

    @Moderators: what does it take to make you just take this issue serious, reported and confirmed repeatedly?Wasting customers time by annoying them with senseless boilerplates again and again doesn't resolve the issue! What exactly is the state of investigation? Have you even reported this to Microsoft? Are they aware of this thread for instance?

    @Microsoft - aren't yourselves using your offered services? Please realize: an inconsistent birthdays calendar service is worthless. Please analyze the birthday calendars' sync processes and finally fix the service!

    Any kind of serious support is highly appreciated. We're all curious about findings and results. Since months...

    Thanks

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  2. Anonymous
    2015-05-31T19:49:42+00:00

    Bug still exists... this is realy a shame!

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  3. Anonymous
    2015-06-10T08:43:46+00:00

    I have the same issue ... Any thoughts?

    (But the refresh option seems to work if I touch the birthday of a person).

    Maybe a "Force full synch" can be easier to implement?

    Thank you in advance!

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  4. Anonymous
    2015-06-10T09:47:57+00:00

    Hi to all,

    please note, that Facebook-accounts cant be connected to outlook.com any longer - so these birthdays are lost anyhow.

    Please look for a workaround here:

    https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Facebook-Connect-is-no-longer-available-f31c8107-7b5a-4e3d-8a22-e506dacb6db6?ui=de-DE&rs=en-001&ad=DE&omkt=en-001

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  5. Anonymous
    2015-06-10T11:10:15+00:00

    Thanks for posting the FB API change here. New entries might be related to this issue.

    But non of my contacts is linked to FB. Nevertheless I have this error. As mentioned many, many times in this thread: the problem occours randomly on any contact, regardless if it has liked accounts or not.

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