Sync Outlook 365 (email, contacts, calendar and notes) with android phone

Have just purchased a five user Office 365 package on the strength I understood I could sync my devices in the cloud using one drive. I can but have to subscribe to a Microsoft business account at $12.50/month I am advised.

I have my own domain and wish to sync my email, contacts and calendar on my lap top with my Nokia Lumia 735 Windows phone.  I would have thought this was possible given I pay an annual fee for 365.  I don't wish to pay an additional recurring fee when the literature I read and advice I got all pointed to the solution I wanted, only to subsequently find out what I wish to do is not possible without paying an additional subscription.

I'm now looking for a way to sync my Outlook contacts, calendar, emails (in that order of priority) across my laptop and Windows phone.   I've found a product called CompanionLink that purports to do this.  Does anyone have experience with this or similar products please?  n

I'm a home user not a corporate.  I went away from Apple because I hate iTunes with a passion and thought using MS products and platforms would given me want I want.  So far it hasn't.  I'm begining to regret not going to an Android/Google solution.

I think this is spot on.

My original point was that MS had failed to make any real effort to help what I suspect is the majority of their users--"low" tech people--do what they'd like to do with Outlook: sync their calendars. I may be wrong, but it has always struck me as an obvious need, at least until all of us give up desktops entirely and migrate solely to their phones or tablets.

Most of us spend most of our time (at least work time) on desktops. Many (most) use PCs with a Windows platform. And they use Outlook. So why wouldn't they want/need to be able to sync to their phones? If they spend a third of their time at work, they spend another third away from work (and away from their desktop). But they still need to know what they'll be doing tomorrow or next week.

MS itself acknowledges this point when it says (misleadingly, I'd suggest) that Outlook365 can sync to their phones (Android or otherwise). To then tell them after they have purchased it that "well, yes, OK, it does, but you have to do this yada yada yada and purchase a 3rd party program that also requires you to do yada yada yada"--all of which requires a relatively detailed understanding of how email/syncing etc works, is unfair and unreasonable--and, as I say, misleading.

Sneering at those of us (most of us) who find the process required to sync opaque is not the answer. And while I accept, acknowledge and appreciate the help and goodwill of those with the necessary technical knowledge to accomplish the feat, it really doesn't address the problem. Helping one person with something that should be easy does not answer the question of why such help should be necessary in the first place.

Don't get me wrong. I prefer Windows, I don't like the closed hegemony that is Apple--but there are some things that MS could learn from its competitor. Easy and seamless syncing is one of them.

This whole chain makes fascinating reading. Clearly high tech users understand how POP3 IMAP Exchange etc work and hence their limitations. Then there are the low tech users who have become accustomed to software that just works the way you expect. 

Like many in this thread I have been using MS Office for many years and I have always found it functional and easy to use; but over recent years MS Outlook has lost much of its functionality. As has been pointed out it is just an email client so it can't manage synchronising without the help of an external application and MS have chosen not to create one. 

However I think the main criticism of MS comes from the fact that MS Office 365 costs money and provides less functionality for the average user than many free alternatives. Personally I now only use the MS Outleeook email client because I can write VBA code to help me do what I need behind the scenes, and it supports POP3, which I prefer. 

However I now use Google Calendar - which is free, works across all platforms and now even works off-line. Like other users I will probably start using One Note for Notes. But I will try the suggestion made in this thread to set up an Outlook email address to handle synchronising of contacts ONLY.

It seems to me that MS have long tried to be all things to all people but is no longer able to do so. Office 365 is becoming more and more targeted at smaller groups of users who are prepared to pay and MS are slowly walking away from the high volume of low tech users, leaving them to be looked after  by more intuitive, lower tech programs that 'seem' more powerful and functional.  But that's just my view

I agree that the sync between Microsoft outlook, 365 and Android is lacking. I just decided to use all of these for my work but after using google also they seem to be way ahead of Microsoft.  It is hard to understand how Microsoft did not consider this functionality.

I have a home subscription to Office 365 that I use on my Windows 7 laptop and a Samsung Galaxy S3 (Android 4.1.1).  I am not on a work server using Exchange, just my own GMail address.  I am wondering if there is a way for my phone to sync with my Office 365 Outlook instance so that it automatically syncs email, calendar, contacts and notes.  Thanks!

I have the opposite question - I want the Outlook 365/and Outlook Mobile version not to synch with my Work Enterprise Exchange Server. It is interfering with Addressbook and contacts and having difficulty locating and turning features off. I manually have to go in an delete / purge. At the point where I'm ready to uninstall outlook from mobile Samsung device which I suspect was the trigger impacting Mobile Iron