Outlook.com Calendar birthdays sync issue

Hi Bruce,

I tested your above directions, but when I deleted the contact, the birthday record was gone from my calendar.  I have devised a work around for this until (and/or if...) Microsoft fixes the issue.  I added the birthday into the calendar, but entered zz First Name and zz Last Name for the contact details and left everything else blank.  Since there will never be a first or last name that begins with zz, this put all of the extraneous contacts created due to the Birthday Calendar entries at the bottom of my Contacts List and mainly out of my view.  Yes, it made my Contacts List a bit longer, but as the entries don't clutter up my list, it doesn't bother me.

Hi Doreen

Your work around seems like a good solution.  I went back to my calendar today, after I got your response.  The 'person' John Doe that I created the birthday record manually in the birthday calendar and subsequently deleted from my People Hub, still has his birthday showing in the Calendar.  When I searched the people hub to see if he was there, I could not find a record for him in the People Hub.  The companion record for 'Mary Doe' for whom a birthday was created in the same manner but whose people record was not deleted from the People Hub still has her birthday on the calendar, and still has her record in the people hub.  Go figure!  The calendar seems to act differently for different users.  It may be working that way, because my calendar is not synced with any other device.  Since all of my manipulations with the calendar 11 months ago, my calendar has remained stable.  I can't tell you why because there seems to be no rhyme or reason for it with the exception that it is not synced with any other device like a cell-phone or social media site.  I hope your solution continues to work for you.

Welcome to the club of users who have been complaining to Microsoft about the odd and inconsistent behaviour of the calendar.  I am going to leave those two 'dummy birthdays in place.  If something odd happens to them, I will report back.  ~~ Good luck!

BruceZ

Bruce,

Just as a side note, our agency uses Microsoft Exchange and Outlook on the web **(OoTW)**for our O365 client.  It is entirely possible that the differences noted in our previous notes are related to that.  OoTW does not use ribbons as you can see from the below picture:


I will report back if I find anything else useful, as well!

Doreen T.

Thanks for the Info Doreen.  When I referred to the ribbon, I meant that coloured strip that runs at the top of the Outlook screen with the options in it.  In your pic, it looks to be turquoise in colour and has the options for New, Add Calendar, Share and Print in it.  But I think you might be right about the differences in Outlook on the Web and my Outlook.com account.  Just another variable that we have to consider I guess. 

BruceZ

Any news ??? Is anybody in ??? It 's been over a year now... Hello ....

Hello,

I have been having the same issues for a few weeks now.

Symptoms:

The Birthday Calendar started to miss a few birthdays of people in my contact list. All my contacts are in Outlook (no Facebook or any other contacts). Refreshing and Deleting/Recreating the Birthday Calendar multiple times made it worse. Now not one single birthday shows up in the Birthday Calendar! It seems that there is a sync issue between People Hub and Calendar.

Please note that this issue is strictly on Outlook.com, with contacts created in Outlook.

I noticed a few users were asked to send  a private message with their account info. Could you send me that link as well please?

Thank you.