What is timeprofile calendar and how to get rid of it?

Here's the latest update from Microsoft:

Current Status: The deployment of the fix is taking longer than initially anticipated. Engineers are continuing to deploy the fix across the affected infrastructure to address end-user impact. Further investigation has determined that the fix will enable removal of the errant folder from the Apple Calendar, however, third party software may cause the errant folder to reappear.

User Experience: Affected users are seeing an additional folder in their calendar, titled "TimeProfile", that cannot be deleted. The extra folder does not affect the user's primary calendar and can be ignored.

Customer Impact: Customer impact appears to be limited at this time. Initially impact appeared to affect both Outlook for Mac and the Apple Calendar. Additional investigation determined that the appearance of the errant folder is isolated to the Apple Calendar.

Incident Start Time: Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 12:00 AM UTC

Estimated Restoration Time: Wednesday, February 04, 2015, at 11:00 PM UTC

Preliminary Root Cause: As part of our ongoing efforts to implement new feature improvements, an update was deployed to the calendar service; however, the update caused a hidden system folder to appear in the calendar for Exchange Web Services (EWS) clients.

Next Update by: Wednesday, February 04, 2015, at 11:00 PM UTC

I was unable to affect this problem in any way from my local machine. What appears to be happening is that the "TimeProfile" calendar has been exposed, but as a user you do not have any rights to delete it. When you try, it gets stuck in a loop that disallows even the syncing of new calendars.

To fix this: I had to log into office365 through the Outlook Web Client (outlook.office365.com) and add a new calendar entry to my main calendar. When iCal received the new calendar entry, it forgot about the attempt to delete the "TimeProfile" calendar and un-stuck itself.

To keep it fixed: I am not touching the "TimeProfile" calendar for any reason. Do not try to delete it again until someone figures out why it is visible and fixes it. I have a feeling it isn't supposed to be visible and a recent update to either end is making it so. If I had to guess, I'd say wait a month and the next whatever patch will clear it.

Not that it will make anyone with this issue feel any better but at least you know:

I reformatted my Mac (1 of 3) all with this issue. It did fix the iCal issue of alerts that make it virtually useless but it did NOT get rid of the "TimeProfile" calendar.

looking for connections to this random issue. Any 3rd party service for scheduling such as:

TimeTrade?

Doodle?

Schedule Once?

It is clearly not an issue with other Exchange MAC users here in my office.

Maybe a common APP or common setup between use of iCal and the Office 365 service.

Maybe a historic version of build or original account issue. For example: I was a day 1 adopter of mobileme. The change over to iCloud created a number of issues for me based on the old account.

My IT guys are in the backend working on this. They have been able to change the name of TimeProfile to TimeProfile- DELETE but they cannot seem to get rid of it. No log work done yet but odd it showed up for everyone around or just before the 17th.

3rd Party Calendar Apps???

Fantastical

Sunrise (recent update)

The Tech guys are working with Exchange Office 365 now. I'll update if anything changes.

No don't try to create a new calendar. If your default calendar is called "Calendar" create an entry. A fake birthday or dentist appointment or whatever you want. When that event sync's to your local machine is clears the error with TimeProfile. After it clears the error, don't touch the TimeProfile calendar or try to delete it.

I have followed your steps supposed to fix it, creating a calendar entry through the office365 web frontend. However this new entry never seems to arrive on iCal. When I then force a calendar sync using the appropriate Calendar menu point, the usual message "can't delete the calendar "TimeProfile" pops up again. Am I missing something ?

Seems iCal can't sync so the calendar entry does not get through, yet as the calendar entry does not get sync'ed iCal does not forget about the calendar deletion.... :/

This same problem is also happening to me. I've tried all the tricks mention on the thread and the thread titiled "Calendar can't delete the calendar "TimeProfile" form the Exchange server." I'm going to stop by my company IT's help desk to see what they have to say. I'll report back on any findings.

If you use Office 365, then this is a server-side microsoft issue. The following service alert was posted on the office 365 service status:

Current Status: Engineers have received reports of an extra calendar folder appearing in some user mailboxes. Engineers have identified the cause of the issue and are developing a fix to resolve the issue.

User Experience: Affected users have an additional calendar folder in their mailbox that cannot be deleted titled "TimeProfile". The extra calendar folder does not affect the user's primary calendar and can be ignored until the fix is implemented to remove it.

Customer Impact: Customer impact appears to be limited at this time. This issue affects users connecting through Outlook for Mac and Apple Calendar.

Incident Start Time: Thursday, January 15, 2015, at 12:00 AM UTC

Preliminary Root Cause: As part of our ongoing efforts to implement new feature improvements, an update was deployed to the calendar service; however, the update caused a hidden system folder to appear in the mailbox for Exchange Web Services (EWS) clients.

Next Update by: Monday, January 26, 2015, at 9:00 PM UTC

Sadly this didn't work for me. The online outlook option won't allow me to add the calendar TimeProfile. I get an error saying that the calendar already exists.

I have the same problem and I thing it is related to office365 exchange account. I found some solution here Calendar can’t delete the calendar “TimeProfile” from the Exchange server

This is happening to me too! Started yesterday. It's driving me crazy and I dont know how to get rid of it. Please advise!

I ended up removing my Exchange account from my computer and re-adding it. TimeProfile still shows up but no more annoying pop ups (as long as I don't try to delete it)

Do you work at a university? Is your employer implementing an HR software suite called "workday"?