How do I sync iCal to live.com or Hotmail calendar?

I have same problem with iCal and hotmail. Just purchased a retina MBP and am very disappointed. Don't understand how the iPad and iPhone I have sync up without problem...and much more expensive, higher technology laptop cannot do this.

You know it has nothing to do with Apple? Microsoft provide Exchange access to mobile devices for for Hotmail/Live/Outlook accounts. Microsoft deny EAS access to desktop applications. Supposedly it's possible to subscribe to the calendar in Calendar app but I think the shared link Outlook.com provides is dodgy. I'll post back if I find a solution.

Tried as hard as I could, looks like I can't even subscribe to the calendar from Calendar app/iCloud or even GMail. Can only subscribe from another MS account.

Hi,

I am faced with the same issue. I tried twice in 2012 and 2013, I was unsuccessful. I thought of trying again with the hope that there was a new way of doing it.

I found this on the internet, but it does not work: http://itsolutionsblog.net/how-to-synchronize-hotmail-calendar-with-your-mac/

In the blog, it accepts "webcal," but when I go to Hotmail I get a link that starts with "webcals."

Have you found a solution? If yes, please pass it unto me.

Thank you for your time and support.

Yours sincerely,

B.

Message was edited by: VA IT Girl

I'm sorry to hear of your problem. My solution was to convert to gmail and google calendar. It now works fine. Had all my live mail and google mail consolidated in OSX Mail. Not sure that helps you but is now working for me.

The solution at the link you provided works just fine. Read the "Important" notes the author includes.

In this case, when you get the link for your Outlook calendar it will start with webcals. The author of the article in the link writes to change that to http. In my case, I figured that s in webcals is for the secure so I changed it to https.

In the end, the link I copied and pasted from my Outlook calendar looked something like this:

webcals://sharing.calendar.live.com/calendar/private/00000000-1bf7-4e47-945b-7b5 c850f5a76/d5fa97b7-ae36-4ce7-b3d0-2fe3055c3ed2/cid-5664678595b9e41b/calendar.ics

and I changed it to this when I pasted it into iCal.

https://sharing.calendar.live.com/calendar/private/00000000-1bf7-4e47-945b-7b5c8 50f5a76/d5fa97b7-ae36-4ce7-b3d0-2fe3055c3ed2/cid-5664678595b9e41b/calendar.ics

This works just fine for being able to view your calendar and get alerts. Of course, you can't edit it without going into a browser.

Many thanks

I had the same issue and this sorted it out

Much apprceiated

GL

This was SUPER helpful. Added the "s" and worked fine. I have been trying to figure this out for a week or so and finally found your post. thank you!

Configure exchange account and put this information on internal and external services.

outlook.office365.com

I'm using MacOS Sierra