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
    2014-12-02T14:06:19+00:00

    We are all waiting.  It does not seem to be a priority.

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  2. Anonymous
    2014-12-02T13:38:42+00:00

    I have the same problem! No birthdays are showing for May, September or December and there should be at least six!

    Microsoft don't seem to in any hurry to resolve this issue or recognise it as a serious issue.

    Can anyone advise if they have managed to fix this problem?

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  3. Anonymous
    2014-12-02T09:18:18+00:00

    Did Microsoft ever get anywhere with this problem? I'm getting the same issue - birthday clearly visible on a contact, but does not appear on calendar either online or on the phone. And yes I do have birthday calendar switched on! Other birthdays appear!

    As you said, it's no good if it doesn't work reliably, and it ought to be dead easy. All it needs is a program that would trawl through your contacts, pick up their birthdays, and put the dates on your calendar...ought to be a doddle.

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  4. Anonymous
    2014-12-01T14:04:33+00:00

    We understand your concern with urgently resolving this issue with your birthday calendar and we apologize for not getting back to you sooner. However, we've checked your inquiry and determined that it's still under investigation by our Support Specialists. Rest assured that we are doing our best to fix this. We'll notify you on this thread as soon as updates about it have been provided.

    Have a happy December, all together!

    Unfortunately, still we're playing birthdays roulette. For this month, here's my birthdays calendar and screenshots of contacts with known birthdays, currently missing in the calendar:

    https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mabp12x7z6wrnz6/AADXNBbpAAzqhpOjLGxvV5TGa?dl=0

    I permit to summarize again:

    • Birthdays disappear and sometimes re-appear in calendar by random
    • All types of contacts are affected**: standalone Outlook.com contacts, linked contacts, standalone Facebook/ Skype etc. contacts**
    • Manual sync of birthdays calendar doesn't resolve
    • Un- and relinking contacts as well as deleting and recreating the birthdays calendarmight result in more or less complete listing of birthdays on short-term -but it doesn't solve the service bug in general**: birthdays will randomly disappear and re-appear again**

    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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  5. Anonymous
    2014-11-29T16:32:11+00:00

    I agree with @RalphLea_771. What Microsoft doing with this problem is   ridiculous. I don't know will they discover a new America?!

    I'm really disappointed with their support team. They have to just connect contact birthdays and set one of them to primary.

    In 4 years, i  will have could fix this when i finish college :P

    Ok i'm sorry for my bad english. I have to improve it. :)

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