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.

That is not supposed to work for anything but office385. Are you saying you got it to work with a standard non paid outlook.com account?

DavMail appears to do a pretty good job of translating exchange to something that can be used in the real world. It is an open source tool to which the French Military have made significant contributions. I used it without issue for a couple of years.

Ok, thanks for the answer. so far no problem. but is the ics -method actually suitable to synchronize both w ays? not just import into thunderbird and view it in there but also see the thunderbird-created dates inside calendar.live.com. it doesn't seem that it is a supported feature. best regards!

Thanks for provided a link to our blog. We have recently moved things around on our website and revamped it a little. The link to the original article has changed it can now be found here http://threenine.co.uk/setup-office365-calendar-with-thunderbird/

Sync outlook.com calendar with Lightning in Thunderbird

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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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