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How to sync Outlook for MAC with iCal, Address book on Lion OS/iCloud

Outlook for MAC used to sync easily on my with ICal and Address Book on my iMAC and Mobile Me then synced the calendar and contacts on my MacBook.

Once I upgraded to Lion, this easy syncing ended, as iCloud can only sync among devices and apparently doesn't support Outlook for MAC anymore.

An apple store genius and an Apple Care tech support person both said the problem is intermittent. That some users do not experience issues syncing with Outlook for MAC while others do.

Can anyone suggest how I can get syncing to work? I badly need my Outlook for MAC contacts and calendar to sync on all my apple devices: iPhone 5, iPad and MacBook Air.

One question: I still have a Mobile Me icon on my iMAC desktop. Could it be confusing iCloud?

I can manually sync Outlook for MAC to iCal and Address book by turning off iCloud but that causes problems that force me to call Outlook tech support to fix.

Help!

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Posted on Feb 9, 2013 7:52 AM

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cmykman

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May 5, 2014 9:14 AM in response to Writer238

I have been struggling with this question for the past couple of months and finally after much research have discovered a work around... oddly enough it's using a Google Calendar which solves the problem. See how: http://techchannel.radioshack.com/sync-mac-os-x-calendar-outlook-1963.html

Jul 13, 2014 9:12 AM in response to cmykman

Not anymore... Since Mavericks Apple in all its wisdom has "killed" sync services, such that ical cannot sync with outlook anymore.

Would anyone know about 3d party software that syncs Office for Mac, with Google Calendar (or perhaps Outlook.com).

All I want to do is synching my Office Calendar across multiple devices, by using Google calendar and contacts as my "hub"

On my Windows 8 machine I use Sync2 with Office 2013, which does the job splendidly.

On my Mac all works even better with iCal/Calendar, but... no such luck with Office ?!

Even all goes well on my IPhone with IOS Calendar as well as Readdle Calendar.

I cannot imagine that Office for Mac is the one and only application that does not link to CalDav based calendars ?!

Thanks for your insight

Csound1

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Jul 13, 2014 9:18 AM in response to vonmonckl

Office for Mac only supports Exchange, so if you want your stuff from Outlook to be available for sync, use Exchange.

Sensible thing to do would be to dump Outlook and use apps that actually can use online services, one set of which is already on your Mac and can use any online service (including Exchange)

How to sync Outlook for MAC with iCal, Address book on Lion OS/iCloud