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FlorianMaass
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Jun 10, 2022

Birthday Calendar reappears

Hey everybody,

 

I am currently trying to set up the calendar and contact environment for my company and keep running in the most ridiculous issues.

Today on the menu: Birthday Calendar.

 

We want to use a central contact book so that not everybody has to manage their own contact book. I tried around with public folders which works in theory but I couldn't find a way to set up an automated birthday calendar for public folders. So I decided to use a shared mailbox for that which seems to be working fine.

 

Now I don't require the personal birthday calendar anymore and a quick google search showed where to deactivate it. "Outlook Online - Settings - Calendar - Deactivate Birthday Calendar".

Now, the problem is that the birthday calendar reactivates it self every single time. I doesn't matter if I have the outlook app open or closed at the time. This calendar won't go away. 

 

After multiple tries I now have 5 personal Birthday Calendars in my outlook app. Anyone has an idea on how to solve this?

 

Thanks in advance and best regards. 

22 Replies

  • FlorianMaass's avatar
    FlorianMaass
    Copper Contributor
    Now it keeps happening for the shared mailbox as well.

    Tried to deactivate it, it reactivates itself. I'm about to loose it.
    • neilcomwire's avatar
      neilcomwire
      Copper Contributor
      Having the same issue. But for a regular mailbox. A client wanted us to disable the Birthday Calendar for the entire org. Had to manually do this via OWA for all users. But I still have two users where this does not disappear 😐

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