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My iPhone calendar will not sync with Outlook 2007
As many folks have noted, Outlook 2007 (and 2003, apparently) does not sync properly with the iPhone. Fewer than half of my appointments end up on the iPhone. No obvious rhyme or reason to what's missing. Apple has a FAQ for this (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.ht...), but this did not help me. Without calendar sync, the iPhone cannot replace my Motorola Q. So sad.
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i tried all of these.. none worked. Called apple and they had me do the following WHICH TOTALLY WORKED!:
1) open itunes
2) under "edit" open "preferences"
3) under the tab "Devices" click the button "reset sync history"
4) cross your fingers
5) sync
6) smile?
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Appointments added to iphone in field don't show up (on the PC when synced - but do show up in the appointment list) - when added from the computer they do. Perplexing
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Inappropriate?My problem is resolved. For some reason I had two Calendars in Outlook - not sure how that happened but once I narrowed it to one Calendar everything worked fine after that.
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how did you actually do that because I have 4 calendars I didn't create -
Inappropriate?Unfortunately I only have one calendar. That was the first things the Genius bar folks checked right after uploading all the new software didn't help. Sigh! Thanks though! :-)
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Inappropriate?I find that it is still unresolved after trying all of these tips. However, as crazy as it sounds and it is a manual fix. Simply open the meeting request or event and make a simple change. Type anything and be sure to save it up exiting and the event pops into your iPhone...Crazy but works...
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Inappropriate?I can get my iPhone calendar to sync with my Outlook 2003 calendar that I SEE. However some (not all) of them do not show up as "Busy" using the meeting request function. They do if I make a small change like Big Dog. However, it is a real pain to have to check this every week as the whole purpose of that function is to allow others to know when you're busy.
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Inappropriate?It appears that I am a little bit luckier than most. My 2007 calendar syncs well with my 3.01 Iphone and 8.2 Itunes.
My problem is that after i synced it with in a different laptop (but still the same Outlook calendar that I copied to the new computer), my Iphone will show the dots in the month view as if there was an appointment for years to come.
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Inappropriate?I just got a new iPhone and had to upgrade my Outlook to 2007. The migration to the iPhone was easy, but my new calendar entries on the iPhone wouldn't show up on the desktop. Noticed that there were two "Calendar" fields on the Outlook toolbar and clicked on the second one and there were my missing entries. When I did the iPhone entry I used the location field for part of my information. This apparently made it go to a new calendar since it had never been used for the ones I migrated. I went back and made the entries all on the "Title" line and left the location blank, and they showed up on my main calendar then. For me it was mystery solved. Hope it works for you.
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Inappropriate?I started having problems with my iPhone calendar not syncing to my Outlook calendar after my company moved my Outlook mailbox from 2003 to 2007. Entries added/changed in Outlook were not updating in iPhone AND entries added/changed on iPhone were not updating on Outlook.
I don't sync my calendar/contacts using iTunes because it is not allowed to be installed on my work system where my Outlook mailbox and files are so I rely on Exchange to sync.
I tried a bunch of things from this post, but nothing worked. Here is what DID work though:
- On iPhone, went to Settings --> Mail, Contacts, Calendars
- Selected my Outlook mail Account
- Toggled the "Calendar" setting to "Off". This warned me it would delete my iPhone calendar, so I accepted it.
- Opened calendar in iPhones and confirmed it was empty.
- Went back to Settings and turned "Calendar" setting back to "On"
- Opened calendar in iPhones and confirmed it was now showing appointments from my Outlook calendar
After doing this I tested several times adding calendar items in Outlook and they are not going to my phone within a few minutes. I have also added several calendar items to the calendar on the iPhone and they are now going syncing to Outlook.
It seems there was some interference caused by the Outlook 2003 to Outlook 2007 move and reseting the entire calendar fixed it. Hopefully it will be a permanent fix! For reference, my iPhone is running version 3.0.1.
Warning, before you try this if you have calendar items added from iPhone they will get wiped out if you do this and they have not synced to Outlook, so make sure you re-enter those after or go ahead and put them manually in Outlook.
Hope this helps!
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I've tried everything in these posts. Tried lanetteramey's suggestion - didn't work. I've removed Outlook exchange from the iPhone, reinstalled it, reset everything I could. I have about 80 - 90% sychronization from Outlook calendar to the iPhone, and there's no pattern as to which events don't show up on the iPhone. One thing does work, suggested above - just make any change to an event that is not showing on iPhone and it will appear. But this means a manual inspection of both calendars to see what's off. I can do that for important future events like trips, but not for day to day meetings. So I've basically learned not to trust the iPhone. Sad. no plans to replace it. Our company doesn't support it, so I can't complain to them.
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bummed that didn't work for you. I had also tried changing the event to see if it showed up on iPhone but didn't work for me. So far smooth sailing since the changes I made, so hope it stays that way!
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bummed that didn't work for you. I had also tried changing the event to see if it showed up on iPhone but didn't work for me. So far smooth sailing since the changes I made, so hope it stays that way!
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Inappropriate?Have you verified which Calendar on your iPhone is syncing with Outlook? When I pressed the 'Calendars' button at the top left of the iCal screen on my iPhone, it showed me all the calendars I had. I had 5! Only one syncs with Outlook. Make sure you are in the calendar that syncs with Outlook when you are inputting an appointment. It will work. Set it as your default.
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Inappropriate?I missed an important appt today because the calendar items are not syncing with my NEW iphone.
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Inappropriate?I agree. I've solved the problem by switching to google calendar. It even syncs over the air and works on unlocled iphones (see Simon Blog for more details)
