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Q: Using iCloud with Windows 10 / Outlook 2013 - How to get Contact Groups to work?

Here's what I did:

 

I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 today.

Deleted my previous Outlook 2013 iCloud datafile in Outlook 2013. Quit Outlook.

Installed  the newest version of iCloud for Windows. Set it to manage contacts etc.

Restarted the computer, then Outlook.

 

I was delighted to see my contacts and calendars again.


However, when I tried to use my old iCloud Groups, they wouldn't work. Outlook reported an undetermined error.

 

Tried to create new groups. I could create them, but not use them for addressing in Outlook.

They work fine on my Mac email client.

This used to work in previous versions of iCloud - e.g., the Groups could be used to as email distribution lists to add lots of names easily to emails.

 

Anyone else seen this? Anyway to create iCloud contact groups that are usable for addressing emails in Outlook 2013 running on Windows 10?

WIndows 10

Posted on Sep 11, 2015 4:56 PM

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  • by FoxFifth,Solvedanswer

    FoxFifth FoxFifth Sep 11, 2015 6:40 PM in response to mdl978
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    Sep 11, 2015 6:40 PM in response to mdl978

    It may or not be related but note that System requirements for iCloud - Apple Support states "Windows 10 currently isn't supported with iCloud for Windows."

  • by mdl978,

    mdl978 mdl978 Sep 12, 2015 6:19 AM in response to FoxFifth
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    Sep 12, 2015 6:19 AM in response to FoxFifth

    This goes without saying - I only wish this had been more widely disseminated before I upgraded my PC. Some things in Outlook work obviously, but not all. But I strongly feel the fact that the statement exists is problematic in itself. This is not of the complexity of emulation software, and is arguably more impactful.

     

    I'm a PC user out of necessity. I find it absolutely unbelievable in 2015 that no major OS software vendor has a solution that lets me synchronize/use a single contact list across all devices (Macs, PCs, iPhones) and computers (OSX, Windows, iOS) except Google, for a major OS and its most popular email client that was launched a month ago preceded by a year of open testing (and which was was widely anticipated as a replacement for a flawed earlier version). That's the kind of incompatibility that is absolutely fatal for business users - your contacts are everything. I really begin to understand better why dinosaurs like Notes and Exchange are still deployed.

     

    Oh well...time to revert the system, be patient, or investigate replacements for iCloud, again.