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
    2017-03-25T14:39:53+00:00

    Wow. This works. But now i can reset the birthday of like 200+ contacts manually?

    Well done Microsoft. -.-

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  2. Anonymous
    2017-03-25T08:28:22+00:00

    Ah this date, 25/03/2017, this issue you all have is still present to me too. I have lost any hope in the contacts linking. Skype has come from **** to destroy outlook and it will destroy sms messages too. I bet.

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-02-16T08:02:01+00:00

    I am running into way too many problems with the whole Microsoft eco-system.  From apps, calendars, billing, and many more.

    I just realized I missed my sisters birthday because I put trust into the calendar and contacts.  I was wrong and I thought it is just as simple as adding a birthday into a contact and it appears in the calendar.  (It worked flawlessly in iCloud)

    Here there doesn't seem to be a solution and no one appears to be working towards fixing this.

    To be honest, I think I am getting fed up like many other people with these simple problems.  Please correct us if we are mis-understanding this issue and it is in fact harder than sending a satellite into orbit.

    I was a fan of Microsoft, but slowly they have these issues that are pushing me away.  Traded the Windows Phone for iPhone.  Surface and Cloud services appear to be the next victims, as things just don't work well on this platform.  Looks like I am taking the same path as these other individuals who are just losing trust in Microsoft.

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-27T19:36:20+00:00

    Problem is not fixed for me - just this morning, it deleted my nieces' birthdays again. This cannot be making me popular with my family. This is just a screwed-up piece of functionality.

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