iCloud and Office Mac 2011 sync

pboomerx wrote:

My Outlook for Mac 2011 also got its calendar wiped out when I enabled ICal.

Outlook is an industry standard tool. That they did not test it or tested it and decided to be silent is not a good policy, in my view.

Outlook for Mac is a brand new application, never was and probably never will be industry standard, especially as Microsoft have elected not to support those standards you speak of, it is junk, use something else.

Yes, it is my own fault - I should have read the "minimum system requirements." My goal in writing anything in the forum was not to blame someone else (neither Apple nor Microsoft), but to call attention to the data loss problem that I had so that others would not repeat my mistake. I have been protected from my own mistakes before by Apple (for which I appreciate), but this time there doesn't seem to be an easy road back. Thanks to everyone for the explanations of the different competing standards (or non-standard standards).

The only solution is for Microsoft to add CalDAV and CardDAV support to Outlook for Mac. Only Microsoft can do that.

There is nothing else to discuss.

Wow, I'm surprised by the level of animosity in this topic. I found it by searching for a solution to sync my Outlook for Mac 2011 calendar with my new iPhone. Some of us have to use Outlook calendars at work. (I'm just lucky I get to use a Mac.)

Enabling iCloud wiped the Outlook calendar and prevents syncing to iCal and Address Book. This is a HUGE HUGE HUGE problem... and yet another example of Microsoft not keeping up with Apple. I am SHOCKED that, according to MS Tech Support, there is not active development to fix this problem. While I much prefer Outlook to iCal and Address Book, the inability to use these products with iCloud renders them useless!

Microsoft should fix this problem now!!!

If anyone here is using Outlook with Microsoft Exchange, you may find this topic helpful:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3412699

I was able to get Outlook onto my iPhone's calendar (and mail) without deleting any of my personal iCal calendars.

NOTICE TO MICROSOFT: I had the same experience - migrated to Apple's new iCloud and 24 hours later it wiped my Outlook calendar clean, without any warning. If you want us to use Outlook Calendar - which many of us prefer, by the way - it simply MUST synch with the new Apple iCloud.

Hi,

Appologies if anything in here is repetitive or just dumb.... very new to Mac world ( 3 weeks!)

Simple question (I hope).

Can I enable an account in Outlook 2011 on my Macbook Air that will see and sync my iCloud account.

i.e. I can set-up/see numerous gmail etc, but not iCloud - doesn't even add a 'tray' under the Inbox.

If so - please post instructions here for the 'hard of thinking' i.e. me.

Cheers,

Steve

All,

A little big of digging revealed this - it works (at least for me)

set in to: p99-imap.mail.me.com

set out to: p99-smtp.mail.me.com

username only. not 'username'@me.com

and Robert's your mothers brother.

Cheers.

nichu wrote:

😕 even the calander syncs?

no. If you attempt to do so, your calendar is wiped or mishmash of whatever.

And if you attempt to sync contacts all your adresses will be gone.

Outlook can't be used. IMAP mail maybe, but on your very own risk.

nichu wrote:

iCal/ CalDAV doesn't support proper task management. how can Microsoft opt for CalDAV standards then?

What do you mean?

Precisely