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

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.

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 use a product called Sync2 from a company called 4Team. I sync my address book between Google (Gmail), and my phone, an LG on the Google OS and Outlook in Office365. E-mail is set up independently on both, but I sync both calendar and address book between the two with no problems. The cost is $39/year.

I am also a home business user. We have our domain e-mail and I have 2 personal e-mails in Outlook. I only use 2 of them on my phone. If the e-mail is set up on both devices, they should work as POP mail.

My wife uses an iPhone and has the issues that you refer to. I’m trying to get her to consider the Sync2 app for it.

Tnx for the advice.  Sync2 is one of the products I plan to look at.  The other is http://www.akruto.com/ 

There is also alternatives at http://alternativeto.net/software/akrutosync/

It's good to hear from users that something actually works.

Forgot to mention this. I'm on my 4th year using Sync2. Used it with Office and now with Office 365.