Synching Outlook w/iCloud sent invites to everyone

I can't tell you how much I wish I had read this thread before yesterday. I had exactly the same problem as everyone else. Moved my Outlook calendar to iCloud, sent unplanned notifications to hundreds of people, angry client emails, spent the day sending out apology emails., still continuing that today.

I am now afraid of doing anything with my calendar and have asked people not to include me on any meeting invitations until I have figured this out. I daren't disconnect iCloud since it will apparently send out cancellations which would be worse.

If anyone figures out any way out, please let us know. I will happily go back to my Google calendar option if I felt I could safely disconnect from iCloud.

When you deleted your iCloud account, did it send meeting cancellations? I would happily remove iCloud right now if I could be sure it wouldn't make things worse ....

Yes it does. Do not cancel! You must push Apple support to help you - don't take no for an answer. I did cancel the iCloud and I am not sure what is worse sending out invites to meetings I did not arrange or cancelling their meetings!

I was told that after this has happened once it will not happen again but I am not sure. Happy to not have my calendar on the iCloud.

Simon

Thank you Simon59. I will keep trying to get help from Apple.

In the meantime I could market this as the iCloud diet because I haven't been able to eat since yesterday I'm so upset. This is my business, my reputation as an IT consultant, as I suspect is the case for many of us early adopters.

After reading other postings that if you cancel or delete your calendar it would sent out cancel invites, I sent out an email to all parties to let them know this was to cancel the incorrectly sent invite. Still got a lot of heat from it, but was afraid it would send them reminders if they didn't respond or worse remind them a few times just before events.

Oh the Horror! I'm still mad.

Try reading the entire chain .. You will get the answer

I did this about a month back ...

I believe iCloud has a setting to remember you invitations ..l

Step 1 disable the darn thing from both your pc/Mac and the cloud for syncing your meetings

Step 2 set the iCloud setting to get rid of the appointment with time to the minimum

And forget about it it will clean up on its on with time.

Step 3 clean up your duplicate callanders on outlook ..

To do this export what you have on your desktop

Delete the icallander on outlook once it is empty

Import back from desktop

I ow I am not very detailed but this worked for me don't try to cancel the meeting I hte iCloud .... You will end up buying donuts and coffee for a lot of folks at work for a real long time .... :D courtesy apple

Good luck urging the folks at genius bar ... Of would see on the forum that some of us have tried it an not make much progress

Good luck

same thing happen to me.. so embarrassing. Was wondering why this problem was still not fixed!!!!

Apparently not enough people have reported it as a problem to Apple. Posting on this forum doesn't count - the tech support person I talked to at Apple said this forum is for peer support only, and is not monitored by Apple support. I called my case number in the same day I reported it here (Nov 29) and they said I was the first person to report it. I don't think that is the case based on the discussions here, but I am guessing that the few people who have called it in are being tracked as separate cases rather than related to the same underlying problem. I gave them the link to this thread so they could see it wasn't just me.

I wonder how often it's actually being reported though? After all, if it's happened to you, and this dreadful event occurred and it's over (because you cancelled the meetings or whatever action was taken), why bother reporting it. You just wouldn't ever use iCloud again.

I now have multiple major clients referring to this as the iCloud virus, because they are getting meeting notifications and cancellations messing up their entire events calendars. And not only from me - another consultant did the same thing when he moved his calendar to iCloud.

I suggest reporting this to Apple and referring them to this thread.

I sent a report to apple support about this issue the day IO5 was released. as i said in it you wont read this or fix it like you ignore all other user issues.

I have spent hours trying to get Outlook 2007 to sync contacts through iCloud. When I first install iCloud the contacts are pushed to the cloud. But that is it, no more communication from outlook to the cloud. And, after research no iCloud add in in Outlook. and no way to put it there. No add in no work!

I have loaded, unloaded installed uninstalled countless times, no luck.

Meanwhile good ole Google calendar sync keeps my calendar in sync to my iPhone, two iPads and a pc notebook. Yes, I tried uninstalling goggle calendar in case I have a conflict, no luck.

And from Apple, nothing.

So no more Apple products for me, and I was considering a Mac desktop.

Apple is notorious for this. They simply deny, just as they have for many ipad2s that have wireless issues.

Apple is going down the path of Microsoft...too big to care.

The iCloud to nowhere!

I have been following up with Apple Support regularly and still no resolution to the original problem. One good thing is that (apparently) the problem has been resolved in -Cloud for new calendar entries. But those of us who moved our Outlook calendars to iCloud prior to mid-December still have the same problem. In the iCloud calendar, I now appear as the "organizer" of hundreds of meetings where I was just one of many attendees. I have tried all the suggestions and each time I try to change or delete one of these meetings, a notification is sent to all attendees. My Outlook calendar is now unusable and I have had to revert to a manual calendar, backing up a decade or so. I have considered uninstalling and reinstalling Outlook but I am afraid that will trigger another flurry of notifications. All I want to do right now is get off iCloud without sending any notifications.

If anyone has any new suggestions, I'd appreciate it. I still have an active case with Apple but assume it must be very low priority since there is no activity and no response.

Hi, the same here, however I've just synced my outlook calendar 3 days ago... Being a consultant with hundreds of clients and push-mailing them.. It is not funny!

Is anyone doing something at Apple to repair it????

I've had an open case since November - I have spent several hours on the phone and talked to 4-5 different consultants there. As far as they are aware the problem is resolved with the latest version of iCloud, but the appointments that were transferred to iCloud before the fix are still a problem. I hope others report the issue (and link to this forum), otherwise I don't see it being given a high priority.

It happened the same to me. I'm in the middle of excuses, apologizing, trying to fix problems, etc.

This must be one of the worst apps around, it is almost like a virus :-(

I received an invitation from my iCloud account this morning to an email account not even listed in my contacts! That email address could only have been obtained through Outlook itself! Since it was unclear to me how iCloud obtained this email address I was about to report to Apple that iCloud had been hacked.

It then hit me whether this was an iCloud glitch and if the invitation had been sent to any of the other 1000+ email addresses I have listed of my collegues all over the world??

Also my iCloud email is only known to a few people and was not meant to be dislosed to thousands of people around the world who I communicate with through other addresses.

I haven't heard back from anyone so I am not sure if this was an isolated invatation to my email ripped off from Outlook, or a message sent to thousands of collegues around the world that my auto registration fee is due soon!!😠