Family calendar not showing up

Anonymous
2020-09-03T02:50:58+00:00

I have a Microsoft Family.  My wife and I are "organizers".  There is a Family Calendar.  I can see it on my iPad MS outlook app, on my iPhone MS Outlook App, at Outlook.com from a PC web browser.  But, I cannot see it (it's just not there!) in the Calendar app for Win 10.  My wife cannot see it on any device.  Why?

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Anonymous
2020-09-08T17:00:50+00:00

The family calendar in Outlook.com has moved to a new Outlook.com groups calendar. This change added the ability to invite others to family group events and to use a shared family email address. 

The calendar is fully supported on Outlook.com and the Outlook mobile app but is no longer supported in other applications like the Windows 10 Mail app, the Outlook desktop app, as well as some third-party apps. None of your existing events or information were affected in the move. 

We know that many of you would like to use your family calendar from other places and are actively investigating the best way to expose the calendar to a wider range of apps.  You can find more details about this change and how to use the new calendar here: Use shared family calendars in Outlook.com.

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2021-01-27T09:54:43+00:00

Hello Everyone,

We want to give a quick update on this issue and how were working to resolved it. We're in the final stages of testing to restore access to your family group calendar in the calendar app on windows, outlook desktop and the native clients on iOS and Android devices. If testing goes well, we hope to be able to release this update to you in early 2021. We understand how frustrating this is and appreciate your continued patience.

  • The Family Calendar Team

Hello and Happy New Year!

We have some good news to share – we're starting to release the updates to the family group calendar that were mentioned earlier in this thread. This update will make the family calendar available in the same applications as the old calendar such as the Calendar app on Windows, Outlook on Desktop, and the native clients on iOS and Android.

Thank you again for your feedback and patience, we’re excited to get this out so that you can continue getting the most use out of your calendar and keeping your family’s schedules organized. Let us know what you think in this thread when you get a chance to try it!

-The Family Calendar team

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2021-04-07T09:53:24+00:00

Hello Everyone,

We want to give a quick update on this issue and how were working to resolved it. We're in the final stages of testing to restore access to your family group calendar in the calendar app on windows, outlook desktop and the native clients on iOS and Android devices. If testing goes well, we hope to be able to release this update to you in early 2021. We understand how frustrating this is and appreciate your continued patience.

  • The Family Calendar Team

Hello and Happy New Year!

We have some good news to share – we're starting to release the updates to the family group calendar that were mentioned earlier in this thread. This update will make the family calendar available in the same applications as the old calendar such as the Calendar app on Windows, Outlook on Desktop, and the native clients on iOS and Android.

Thank you again for your feedback and patience, we’re excited to get this out so that you can continue getting the most use out of your calendar and keeping your family’s schedules organized. Let us know what you think in this thread when you get a chance to try it!

-The Family Calendar team

Hello Everyone,

Thank you for all the feedback and patience, we have collated the top questions to provide more clarity. 

  1. When will the update be released ? It is rolling out now.  However, we are doing it slowly to make sure we don’t introduce any new issues. Rest assured we’re doing our best to get it to you as quickly as we can.
  2. How would user know the capability being restored ? If you can see your family calendar in the Windows 10 Mail app or any other place you had used it previously, you have the update! You can also tell in Outlook.com as your family calendar will move to the “other calendars” area in the left nav. Please note once you have the update some Family members may receive the calendar ahead of others by a few days.
  3. Is there user action to be done to restore feature / update ? No action is required on your part?– the update will happen in the background.
  • The Family Calendar Team

Hello Everyone,

As some of you have noticed, we recently released the calendar update to a wider audience. We learned a lot from our initial rollout and will continue to monitor the forums and our internal metrics to make sure everything looks good.~~~~

We’re continuing to increase the percentage of folks who have the update and if all goes according to plan, we’re hoping to get it into everyone’s hands in the next couple of weeks. 

Thank you again for your feedback and let us know what you think in this thread when you get a chance to try it!

The Family Calendar team

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-10-13T19:36:48+00:00

    This is currently being addressed by engineering but we don’t have an ETA to share at this time. 

    What EXACTLY is being addressed by the engineering team?

    As far as I've been told, there is no going back on this and it is working as intended.

    Yes, it will be brought to more apps in time, but that's not addressing the issue at hand, which is that you took a perfectly good feature and broke it overnight with NO warning to your users AND the fact that no amount of tinkering will bring it back to third party apps and devices without those third parties investing time and money into a problem you created. Seeing as how long it took Amazon to integrate with Outlook at ALL, I am not holding my breath on an updste from their side in a foreseeable timeframe.

    If you are saying that engineering is addressing the issue of having broken the feature in the first place you need to get your ducks in a row and start communicating between teams again, because that is the exact opposite of what the engineering team in question has said...

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-10-13T13:26:46+00:00

    Any news of how / when this issue will be fixed by the team that broke the feature ?

    Thanks

    LOL

    I see you're new to Microsoft products. They never "fix" things they "break". Rather they just come with some bullcrap statement about "our metrics show us that our users don't understand the feature, so we have deprecated it" or "we are rolling out a new similar feature and it will be superior in every way, it may take a few months to get feature parity though and in the meantime you should adjust your life to our schedules" etc. 

    They've already said this is not broken, it is working the way they intended and they will bring parity in time. 

    Basically your best bet is to create a new calendar, share that with your family members and start populating all events manually again. Or.. and this may well be better, find another calendar solution that works the way you want and is likely to stay that way without the company behind it changing things up every six to twelve months.

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