Calendar - Exchange sync issue

I don't usually jump on OS updates on the day of release, but when I saw "Microsoft Exchange compatibility improvements in Calendar" on the changelog for 10.8.4, I bit.

Now to see if they picked our favorite compatibility issue to fix…

8-andrew-8, et al:

I updated my machine with 10.8.4 and received the same error as before; however, once I a) removed the Exchange account in Calendar preferences; b) closed the program; c) opened System Preferences and checked Calenders / Reminders in the Exchange Account under the Mail, Contacts, & Calendars setting; and d) opened Calendar and put in my Exchange password, I have had no problems since.

I am currently on Day 2 of this experiment. I just home from work, opened Calendar (it had been completely closed), and have not seen the dreaded bug pop up yet. I'll let you know if the bug comes back. I'm hoping it doesn't!

G.

48 hours and running without any pop-ups here.

I did the following:

1. Removed my outlook accounts from both of my macs through system prefs.

2. Updated to OS 10.8.4

3. Added the accounts back.

I have added new appts and so have my delegates. Keeping my finger crossesd.

Thank you, Apple.

My calender seems to work again. What i did was to open finder and go to User/Library/calendars and delete the folder with .exchange in the end. I did also delete the Calendar Cache file. Before this I did shut down the calender. And then I re-opened the calender and it took around 5 minutes for the updating.

//Stefan

Simply upgrading to 10.8.4 did not solve this issue for me (and I am not ready to one more time delete and recreate my account).

It would be nice if somebody with access to the 10.9 beta could report on this. No need to break any NDA, just tell us if a few months of patience will solve this bug :-)

Pascal_Sartoretti wrote:

Simply upgrading to 10.8.4 did not solve this issue for me (and I am not ready to one more time delete and recreate my account).

Delete the account and set it up again, more chance of success than trying to persuade people to break the terms of the NDA.

After upgrading to 10.8.4 the day it came out and deleting/re-adding my Exchange account the problem is gone for me on both of my Macs...so far. After upgrading to 10.8.4 I didn't delete/re-add for a while and still saw the issue. It only went away after deleting/re-adding the Exchange account.

My results have been mixed. I never removed my Exchange email account, but I re-added the calendar. I've gotten the Pop up of Death a few times, but when I click Retry it actually seems to work and the pop up doesn't come back. I had migrated to Google Calendar so I don't have any old entries on my Exchange and I've only recently added a few entries on my Exchange calendar. But from my limited experience so far it does seem to be working. I have time zone turned on and settings much like others in this thread. I'm curious to know if anyone else is getting the Pop Up and seeing it work when they click on Retry.

Well,

Last weekend I did a fresh install of my system with 10.8.4. Then added my Exchange account and...

Sadly GPUOD came back after a while.

It is weird, because I've found out the following:

-Not using Timezone support always throws GPUODs

-Timezone Support active but with Mexico City and any other from Mexico throws GPUODs

-Tried using Central Time using Houston, Dallas and other US cities,works for a while then GPUOD is back after some cycles.

On the last option I even reached a day working fine, but next day comes with a GPUOD since opening and never got to get it quite good since then. Sometimes it works sometimes don't.

No workaround so far.

Well, after digging a bit more I found out DavMail in SourceForge which is now doing the job with or without TimeZone support, cleaning cache, recreating accounts or whatever other trick.

Basically you need to:

1. Download DavMain from Sourceforge http://davmail.sourceforge.net/download.html

2. Temporary "Allow applications downladedf from: Anywhere" on System Preferences - Security & Privacy

3. Install DavMail.

4. Reset "Allow applications downloaded from:" to either "Mac App Store" or "Mac App Store or identified developers.

5. Run DavMail

6. Leave Exchange Protocol to "Auto" and write your OWA URL (like https://email.server.com/owa/) or EWS (https://email.server.com/ews/exchange.asmx)

7. Uncheck any protocol you won't use (I only left CalDAV HTTPS enabled) note port number (1080 in my case)

8. Remove your Exchange Calendars

9. Add new CalDAV using: your Exchange credentials (using DOMAIN\username form), and using http://localhost:1080 as CalDAV server.

10. DONE! Although a bit slow, I am now Sync'ing with Exchange and iPad/BlackBerry/Outlook are receiving push notifications 🙂

This has been the best bet I've found until Mavericks arrive. Lets hope this get fixed then.

Find more info on CalDAV under http://davmail.sourceforge.net/gettingstarted.html

Regards all!!!

Hello everyone,

I am currently on Day 10 of this experiment and have not seen the dreaded bug pop up yet. I'll let you know if the bug comes back.

This is what I did to my mid-2007 iMac:

I updated my machine with the 10.8.4 update and received the same error as before; however, once I a) removed the Exchange account in Calendar preferences; b) closed the program; c) opened System Preferences and checked Calenders / Reminders in the Exchange Account under the Mail, Contacts, & Calendars setting; and d) opened Calendar and put in my Exchange password, I have had no problems since.

Hope this helps,

G

I had already removed the Exchange account from Calendar before the update, but the error started coming back yesterday. Hopes dashed again.

I hadn't heard of DavMail until now — sometime when I'm bored I'll give it a shot. Meawhile, back to Exhange in the browser. Again. 😠

Just wanted to let you know that I moved all of my sync to DavMail in the Mac.

Although a bit slower (its java) it really does the trick.

Found out that even pictures in contacts now are syncing between Mac, Exchange and (sic...) blackberry, something that its not supported natively today.

Multiple cals are also supported.

I think I'd really stick to this until I can test Mavericks.

My notes still pending to sync dough...

Have a good one!

Hi all,

Not having good news 😟

Happens that after a while doing fine with DAVMail and the whole OSX PIM apps my Mac became slow, switched back to native Mac Exchange access, for email only. Again, it worked fine sometime.

But slowliness came back and after a while it became unbearable for my MacBook Air, noticed spotlight was in an endless indexing and time machine was crazy busy.

I receive about 2000 emails per month, and write around 500, and as I usually move large batches of email to Archive or local Mailboxes, pretty sure that triggers the indexing and backup then the Air crawling.

So, weird stuff, tried same large batch operations with Outlook and the Mac did not suffer on slowliness at all and indexing is way faster.

It is sad that I'm note able to use Mail/Calendar/Contacts for my work stuff, I *really* like the simplified, neat interface it has, and organizing mail with flags is really simple and effective, I find Outlook so overloaded with buttons and options I think makes you use more time in classifying email than actually triggering related actions.

Unfortunately I can't afford making my Mac unusable by Mail unable to handle my email. So, back to Outlook, at least until I can try Mavericks.

Regards!

This all sounds good and I've seen that it worked for a few people so far.

I'm just stuck on the step:

"- go to Terminal and delete "rm -rf *" all the files inside username/Library/Calendars/"

I can't figure that bit out... Little help please.

Thanks guys!