Mac Calendar not syncing with Exchange on Ventura

Just upgraded to Ventura. When I enter a calendar event in Mac Outlook is does NOT show up on my Mac calendar, but it does show up on my iPhone calendar immediately. Also, if I enter a calendar event on my Mac calendar and designate my Exchange calendar to put the event on, it does NOT show up on either my iPhone calendar OR the Outlook calendar on my Mac. I used to periodically get this happening on Monterey after a few days, but it fixes itself on a restart -- however, that is not case now, a restart of the Mac does not fix the problem.


Mac Mail seems to be syncing just fine -- no issues with that, so there is something going on between the Mac apps and the Exchange server.

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 13.0

Posted on Nov 10, 2022 4:33 PM

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Posted on May 24, 2023 4:42 AM

macOS 13.4 fix found!


We've had this problem for multiple client devices since macOS Monterey. Back then we had a fix that worked however since macOS Ventura, no fixes have worked.


Since updating to macOS 13.4 the following fix works:

  1. Close Outlook, Mail and Calendar apps
  2. Open Activity Monitor
  3. Force quit the process called "exchangesyncd"
  4. Relaunch the Calendar app and give it a few minutes


This issue has caused us a lot of nightmares so hopefully this works for you all.

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Jan 5, 2023 11:54 AM in response to Jim Porell

Ventura 13.1 did nothing for me to fix this problem. Totally shocked that Apple let this happen in the first place let alone leave it out there for such a long time. Business user and I have shut down Mac Mail and Mac Calendar in lieu of Outlook becuase Mac's apps are not working for calendar. Totally unacceptable for Calendar to be this dysfunctional. Can't tell you how much it pains me to have to go back to Outlook. Come-on Apple; get this resolved.

Jan 9, 2023 7:36 AM in response to Wald02

The behaviour of the calendar app is really strange. The problem seems to be localized only to the calendar application on macOS in connection with the local Exchange server.

Calendar on MacOs will allow you to create an event that is almost instantly synced to iOS. Similarly, an event created on iOS will appear on macOS after a while. This is apparently provided by iCloud sync.

After removing and re-adding an Exchange account, past and current events are not loaded. After restarting the Exchange server, the synchronization process works for a while, but then stops. Sending meeting invitations does not work. It is also not possible to reply to incoming invitations.

Please provide a quick fix or rollback to the previous version, which worked without problems with Exchange sync!

Jan 17, 2023 6:14 AM in response to Wald02

Wald02, I tried this. Yes, my calendars were synched again and I was hopeful. Then on the outlook side, I deleted a meeting and I'm still waiting for the Mac calendar to delete it a few hours later. Maybe if I did all my work on one calendar or the other, but that's not possible for me. Due to a webex app in Outlook, I have to create the meeting requests there, but that's it. Everything else is on Mac Cal.

Jan 19, 2023 4:52 AM in response to Wald02

I did re-boot...it appears to be working, but as I mentioned, it took a long time for the delete of an item in Outlook to make it to Mac Cal. I feel like a grenade with the pin pulled. I don't trust it and have to look at both Outlook and Calendar regularly to ensure they are in synch. Phone has been fine.

I also wonder if this was an Exchange problem all along as someone else has mentioned. I'm up to date on their service levels.

Jan 20, 2023 9:45 AM in response to Wald02

Any more updates on this issue? It happened a couple times to me - most of the times deleting and reinstalling the account worked, but not anymore.


None of the things suggested here work anymore... so now I cannot see any of my appointments anymore (including the teams/zoom link that are in the meeting invitations). Pretty bad bug...

Apr 10, 2023 10:48 AM in response to Wald02

Well, I've given up and started using outlook. How sad.


It seems that the Mac calendar app fails to reconcile changes made on other devices. Original events that it creates and edits seem to be pushed up, but changes made elsewhere don't.


Unfortunately there's only so many times that you can double-book clients before you have to do something about it, and I'm tired of deleting my account on all my Macs and adding them back in every two weeks.

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