Outlook 2010 SP1 Sync with the iCloud

Can anyone explain how to arrange the automatic synch of the iCloud Calendar folder with the default Calendar in Outlook? A lot of comfort of Outlook is based on the usage of the default calendar, for example invistations and reminders. Working on the iCloud folder is missing this functionality.

Hello everybody,

I am experiencing the same problem encountered by güntherfrommünchen. New calendar entries (for example, those created starting from emails) go in the personal Calendar by default, which is a pain, since the synchronization does not work automatically from the personal Calendar (for me, it is the "blue" one in wndrmn's screenshot) to the iCloud Calendar (the "green" one)... I have to manually move each entry into the iCloud Calendar!

I think it could be rather an Outlook issue. Of course it would be great if Outlook could automatically add new entries to iCloud Calendar.

Anyone could help? Thank you very much.

as I mentioned... there is no way to automatically sync calendars in outlook.

This is not an Outlook issue. It would be easy for Apple to respect the outlook structure and synch with the default *.pst (or *.ost) instead of creating an extra folder structure which is isolated in Outlook and missing all the comfort of Outlook. Finally I removed iCloud from my PC and use Google synch again. Appel is stupid to deliver such a nonsens.

This is totally stupid

I switched to iOS 5 only to have iCloud sync and I finally can't use it because I want to work only with the default Outlook calendar and contacts, not secondary calendars.

It screwed my iPhone which is now deadly slow thanks to IOS5 and I lost all contacts and events

Good move Apple!

The least they could have done would have been to clearly state somewhere that iCloud imposes non native calendars and contacts and that it moves everything to secondary pieces

Just by honesty.

Now I'm done with iCloud.

Careful...there are TERRIBLE bugs in the iCloud! 3.5 hours on the phone with Apple and I have my data back, my dups are gone, but my Outlook color-coding of each calendar item is still gone (hours of work), and it still trumps the default 15 minute reminder for each item. You CAN resent reminders for items manually, but it doesn't support your default reminder settings in Outlook. Call support, ask for Carlos, in the highler level of support. He knows how to fix this.

After setting up the I Cloud Control Panel for Windows on my PC and watching it upload and download all of my Outlook 2010 calendar, I find that I now have 4 calendars: my calendar, an I Cloud calendar, another called Pocket Mirror Archive - I Cloud and yet another called Pocket Mirror Conflict - I Cloud. Also, Outlook is now very, very slow and unresponsive when I do anything. Do I need to keep all of these calendars open? And what's with the Pocket Mirror Calendars? And which one should I enter things into?

Then when I checked Contacts from Outlook in the Control Panel, it uploaded and downloaded and then permanently hung up with the wheel turning in the setup process - finally had to use Task Manager to exit the Control Panel.

I haven't yet changed my I phone or my I pad or my Macbook Air over to the cloud, mostly afraid to because when I've tried it previously, it caused all kinds of missing calendar items and I had to erase it all and re-do the sync with I Tunes, the old way after resotring my .pst file and restoring my phone from a backup.

I've spent almost 2 weeks of my life on all of this now and still not working properly.

And I've been changing over to Apple across the board after a lifetime of PC's. I thought it was all rock solid and that everything Apple "just works." Shame on you, Apple, it doesn't!! And it's robbed me of two weeks of my life.

Can anyone help me out with all of this? I know it's a lot of questions, but I'm at my wit's end.

Thanks in advance.

Simply put: if you want to use Outlook as your base, stay away from iCloud.

Your Pocket Mirror calendars are certainly relics from a WindowsMobile PDA you had. Did you?

Some devices impose a second set of calendars, contacts, tasks into Outlook.

This way you can, say, separate your professional contacts and appointment from your home/personal ones.

In the Palm PDA world, you could assign categories to those, and this was the best way to handle things. Everything at the same place, with a tag to discriminate where they belong to.

In Outlook you can't. So they offer multiple views of calendars, appointments, etc.

And this messes up everything when Outlook is the reference to 3rd party tools.

iCloud does the same. It moves all your items into secondary views, the iCloud ones you see, and then the default Outlook elements are empty.

If you add an appointment to the default Outlook calendar, it will never appear in your ipad or iphone.

If you add an appointment to your ipad or iphone, it will not appear in the default Outlook calendar.

The only way to use Outlook correctly with an iPhone and an iPad is to fully disable iCloud and stick to synchronizations via iTunes

First you will have to move all your items from iCloud views to the Outlook default calendar/contact list. One by one.

Same for the Pocket Mirror views.

Then, delete PocketMirror and iCloud calendars/contact lists and stick to outlook/itunes.

Hopefully you had a backup of the .PST file before tryint anything with iCloud. I did...

This is a shame. I was hoping to be able to add an appointment on my iPhone and have it immediately replicated on my iPad thanks to iCloud magics. Doesn't work if you need Outlook as the central element.

To those who will reply "iCloud is just a view in Outlook that you can overlap on the default one", no, this is not enough. 3rd party tools, like Act! CRM, rely on the default Outlook calendars, not other views.

Apple has to fix this a.s.a.p to start pretending playing at a professional level.

I did have a palm device years and years ago, but I think that was before I was using Outlook.

And yes, I did back up the .pst file. This will be about the 5th time I've restored it after trying the cloud in different ways.

Thanks for all the info. Sounds like you've been through the mill.

güntherfrommünchen wrote:

Can anyone explain how to arrange the automatic synch of the iCloud Calendar folder with the default Calendar in Outlook?

You can not do that, use the iCloud calendar as your default

It is not possible to make the iCloud folders default! Apple made a big mistake NOT to sync with the default structure in Outlook like ALL other market relevant solutions like Google sync. Apples´s iTunes do it right too. Why not iCloud? The implementation of the Cloud idea with iCloud for Outlook is a non-starter. Most of iCloud users removed it from their PC and use iTunes and other Synch Tools like Google Synch again.

güntherfrommünchen wrote:

It is not possible to make the iCloud folders default! Apple made a big mistake NOT to sync with the default structure in Outlook like ALL other market relevant solutions like Google sync. Apples´s iTunes do it right too. Why not iCloud? The implementation of the Cloud idea with iCloud for Outlook is a non-starter. Most of iCloud users removed it from their PC and use iTunes and other Synch Tools like Google Synch again.

Microsoft, not Apple made the decision not to allow a subscribed account to be the default, go complain over on their forums.

I see a lot of people complaining about the icloud implementation in Outlook and I think it would be more effective to report isseus/feature requests over here:

https://bugreport.apple.com

Just to be sure that Apple engineers are aware of any issues and able to start resolving them.