Sync outlook.com calendar with Lightning in Thunderbird

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Hi.

I am looking to sync the calendar in Outlook.com with that available in Lightning, a calendar add-on available for Thunderbird.

Can anyone help?

Thanks in advance.

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Anonymous

Hi JeffRusk,

first of all: I think we all hear you but MS doesn't seem to hear us. In today's TechWorld it just must be clear that the chances of someone having a Windows Phone while having a Mac at home and a Windows PC at work are not that slim. Still no one agrees on any standard and just keeps doing their own stuff.

But the initial question for this thread was how to get the Outlook.com calendar into Thunderbird's Lightning add-on.

I'm not quite sure that's what you're trying to figure out here.

However I hear you: I used Outlook 2010 with shared calendars.

So maybe I can give you some more insight.

First of all: saving an ics-File and importing it is NEVER any solution when you're trying to share calendars that you want to sync.

The ics file is just one file that contains all your calendar entries from the moment you created that file. The file only updates when you manually create a new file and import it again.

So the way to go is definitely the "link" option. This way your program or interface connects automatically to the file on the Outlook servers were the file is kept up to date.

As I've written before: out of 3 attempts, 2 worked when I pasted the link from the "Get a link" page on Outlook.com and substituted the webcals-prefix with https. The second time I faced the same problem as you: for no reason it just wouldn't work until my Thunderbird erased all account information and I tried again.

And still, there's always the issue of not being able to write data to the calendar if it's shared. It's always read-only.

But when you're using Outlook 2010 or 2013 there shouldn't be any problem with viewing and modifying your own Outlook.com calendar. In 2010 you must download the Hotmail Connector from

http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/microsoft-office-outlook-hotmail-connector-overview-HA010222518.aspx

From what you're writing I assume you use a not synchronized, offline, profile-based Outlook 2010 calendar. You should then definitely switch to using the Outlook.com one in Outlook 2010 with the above mentioned tool since from what you write MS seems to have canceled the feature that would allow you to share internal calendars (publish option).

The connector tool adds full Hotmail/Outlook.com support to Outlook 2010. I just upgraded my Outlook to 2013 so I'm not sure about specifics but in my opinion full support is included in 2013 without the need for the addon.

As for your colleagues I'm sorry but I have no other idea than trying that ics-LINK thing.

Good luck to you..

Andy

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Anonymous

2015-03-21T21:59:28+00:00

This Thread/request ist 2 years old. It has over 29000 views. MS doesn't care. They want you to use Outlook, Live Mail or f**k off.

My only advise: Use the Google Calendar. Pretty sad to be honest...
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Anonymous

2015-03-21T19:51:10+00:00
Hi David,

Thank you for contacting Microsoft support. I understand that you want to sync your Outlook calendar with Lightning in Mozilla Thunderbird, let me assist you regarding this matter.

To be able to sync your Outlook calendar with a 3rd party calendar, you must first export your calendar to an .ics file. To do this please follow the steps below.

Log-in to https://calendar.live.com .

Click Share on the upper part of the page. Select the calendar that you want to sync.

On the New window, under Share, click Get a link.

Under Show event details, click Create.

Copy the link under Import into other calendar applications (ICS).

After you have got the link, please contact Mozilla Thunderbirds support on how to import the .ics file.

I hope this helps. Please feel free to reply to this thread if you have other questions.

Thanks!
I have been able to synchronise outlook.com with lightning (Thunderbird agenda plug-in), however I can not modify or add an event in lightning because outlook.com link to do so is a read only feature. Is-it possible to modify it? I want to use lightning instead of outlook 2013 because of the problem of aleatory synchronization between outlook.com and outlook 2013.
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Anonymous

2015-03-21T02:19:18+00:00

Hello everyone apologize for late reply.

We had this issue couple years ago.

So we made some tests and we concluded it was a Microsoft normal behavior, I mean restrictions everywhere.

We fixed the issue installing our own cloud server...so at this point we have our own repository for tasks, contact, calendar and even file storage, and for the entire company. All this for a few bucks.

It is amazing how restrictions push innovation, because in the meantime we had the issue, a friend of mine introduce me something called Ubuntu operating system. We discovered that Ubuntu is fully compatible with mozilla Firefox, Thunderbird and many other cool tools, all free indeed.

We decided to give it a try !! Today the entire company use open source systems. There's always (of course) a few people they do not get used with open source system, so for them we use Mac computers, those I found also a little bit restrictive but definitively excellent design.

Quiet amazing what restrictions make, isn't i? You can follow me or write at @GiuseppeNoc I can help with your problems.

Best regards.
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Anonymous

2014-12-11T11:27:29+00:00

Thanks

Worked fine.

Rgds Mika
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