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Shared Calendars added to Outlook 2016 not synced to Outlook on Mac
We have a small number of Mac users (including myself) and are having an issue with Shared Group Calendars.
I have created some Calendars in Outlook and then instructed users to go to the Cale...
Julia Foran
Microsoft
MicrosoftHi John,
IMAP protocol is an email-only protocol and doesn't support syncing of calendars, contacts, or tasks. That is why the buttons are greyed out for IMAP accounts. The calendar that you see is a local calendar on the Mac computer, so it's expected that the events you create or change do not roam. If you check the "Hide On My Computer folders", that calendar should disappear. If this is confusing (very understandable!), you can always leave the team feedback at outlook.uservoice.com.
The Outlook for Mac team is working on changing how they sync Gmail accounts so that they can sync calendars. I don't have timelines for that, but I can tell you that work is in progress!
IMAP protocol is an email-only protocol and doesn't support syncing of calendars, contacts, or tasks. That is why the buttons are greyed out for IMAP accounts. The calendar that you see is a local calendar on the Mac computer, so it's expected that the events you create or change do not roam. If you check the "Hide On My Computer folders", that calendar should disappear. If this is confusing (very understandable!), you can always leave the team feedback at outlook.uservoice.com.
The Outlook for Mac team is working on changing how they sync Gmail accounts so that they can sync calendars. I don't have timelines for that, but I can tell you that work is in progress!
Thank you. I understand imap has this limitation and suspected that the lack of exchange would be the reason it is greyed out.
However, I'm getting calendar updates on the IoS app and once in outlook, Why doesn't it sync with the Mac version of outlook when all instances are office 365?
- Julia ForanHi John, I don't understand your last question, but the content in the "on my computer" folder is entirely local to the machine and will not roam to other Outlook apps.