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Jason Drew
Iron Contributor
Apr 27, 2018

Planner Calendar does not update in Outlook

I recently saw that Planner had Outlook integration now so I decided I would finally give Planner a chance. I created a task in Planner and then I clicked ''add plan to Outlook calendar'', the calend...
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Brady1365
Copper Contributor
Apr 24, 2020

Coder81 I can confirm this workaround of manually adding the iCal url works as stated in Outlook Desktop as of April 2020. You still need to Refresh to see the updates. It is an unfriendly hack though. The integration is one way. Editing the events in desktop does not affect the Plan, but also does not tell you it isn't affecting the plan. Refreshing doesn't revert your changes to show you the real plan. You need to make a change to the item in the plan then refresh outlook to get it to revert. This is likely due to it being just a iCalendar subscription. 

A new plan creates a whole "group" with email and calendar and everything. Why can't the Plan control a real calendar?

Planner is so close to being amazing and it's really calendar that is lacking.

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Peter_Kapitola
Copper Contributor
Apr 28, 2020
Coder81 I can confirm what Brady1365 says. Synch between Planner and Outlook does not "work fine".

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