2010 Outlook Syncing one way only (Out)

Are you looking in the correct account in Outlook, not 'Personal Folders' (that's local) but iCloud.

What are the names of the accounts contained in Outlook?

Having the same issue. Wondering if anyone has a solution. Tried removing calendar from iCloud dashboard, disabling and re-enabling add-in on Outlook. Shut down maching, etc. Seems to me like the REFRESH button in Outlook is not doing anything.

I am having the same problem with my wife's PC and iCloud (contacts and calendar). I have been able to isolate it to between iCloud (as viewed on the web) and Outlook.

Add something to Outlook, it shows up on iCloud.

Add something to iCloud, get nada on Outlook, even after repeated use of the "Refresh" button added by iCloud to Outlook.

I think I have to be looking at the right calendar in Outlook, because things are making their way to iCloud, thought not from it.

Is it possible Windows or my router firewall is in the way? I would assume all connections are initiated from the PC so the firewalls should not come into play.

I have seen a couple of posts about this problem but not solutions so please, if someone has solved this, let me know. Probably going to open a case with Apple. Not sure what else to do.

I had the identical problem

[iPhone-iCloud-Outlook] didn't work, only into the Cloud, while [Outlook-iCloud-iPhone] worked perfectly. the refresh button never changed anything.

just now I tried to "fix" instead of "uninstall" the iCloud software from my PC and it asked me then to sort of set up the iCloud anew. Despite duplicates (of entire calendars, not calendar entries) which I now deleted with a single mouse click, everything worked perfectly.

it's a bit weird that this simple solution did it for me after hours of reading through all the forums. maybe the iCloud software was renewed without letting us know we needed to update it.

Kelaukio - how did you "fix" iCloud on your PC? Please tell me - I am desperate for help!! My Outlook contacts are now syncing with the iCloud but an old version of my calendar (about 6-8 weeks back) is there and it isn't syncing with the iCloud.

I would love to know if you could please - tell me what you did to fix it? Thank so much in advance! ElizaJane

Hi ElizaJane

as I described my problem was that Outlook would not take anything in its Calendar from the iCloud whereas the opposite (from outlook vial iCloud to iPhone worked), so I'm not sure if you are having exactly the same problem.

I also am a bit surprised that my simple solution fixed it, as I have read through many forums and saw that other are having the same problem without solutions, and I simply can't imagine nobody has tried what I did, so it might just as well be a lucky thing for me.

having said that what i did was going to the WINDOWS SYSTEM CONTROL and to the option where you de-install software. upon finding the iCloud Software there, which i had installe somtime in March or so i clicked the CHANGE option and then was asked to either FIX it or DEINSTALL it. I chose FIX and what it did was a REINSTALL of the software, I assume with a newer version of iCloud.

I had to do the same things and settings as I had when I installed the iCloud for the first time back in March, but it was a quick thing to do. the only thing was that I had some calendar duplicates then, but I just left-clicked them to see if they were indeed duplicates or even empty ones and then right-clicked on them and deleted them.

Yeah, after that everything worked both ways again, indeed much faster than before, an entry made on my iPhone shows already after about 5 seconds now on Outlook

Hope this works for you too!

greets,

Thanks so much for taking the time to respond - I greatly appreciate it! I am having someone come to work on my computer/Apple products tomorrow, and will show your fix to him. I'm out of my league here (unfortunately, as help is very expensive!). I just hope this guy knows Windows and Apple - my trip to the Genius Bar at the Apple store was useless - they had no idea what to do with the Windows side of the problem.

Once again - thank you for responding! I very much appreciate it! - ElizaJane

Sorry for the delay in responding but thank you Kelaukio. Although the fix/repair option alone did not do it (and it did not force me to reconfigure after that), doing fix/repair on the iCloud control panel followed by logging out the apple ID and logging back in, which is effectively a new setup seems to have done it. We're getting two-way sync now.

Thanks for your help.

Hi josher,

you are absolutely right, I had to log out from the apple ID as well, but I was prompted to do that, so I forgot to mention this as a specific step.

it is good however that you highlight that! Obviously some might have to do that manually and it appears to be crucial to the solution. thanks for adding that.

I'm coming to the discussion a little late, but one thing I noticed was that the default calendar to which I was adding items on my iPhone was NOT the iCloud calendar, but the local iPhone calendar. Now, having edited the default calendar setting on the phone (Settings/Mail, Contacts, Calendars/Default Calendar), and individually editing items on my device to update them to the proper calendar, things seem to be syncing up properly. I don't know when or how that setting was switched, because it used to be set for the iCloud calendar, but now it's all good again.

This method worked for me too, thanks. A year and a half after the last post. Only took me about 2 days to weed through all the other outlook to cloud sync issues on the internet.

Thank you so much. I've had this several times now that incoming sync (from Outlook's perspective) stopped working for me for some unknown reason. Instead of uninstalling everything from the scratch the fix option in "Programs and Features" worked for me.

By the way: I did not log out from iCloud, simply "fixed" the installation, restarted my Windows 10 notebook and then Outlook two-way sync worked again.