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Booking events not appearing on Apple Calendar
Cross posting from an Apple Support community post https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254603104. Seems that when an event is created on my Outlook/M365 calendar at work, it never appears on my ...
- You can also upvote this request I just created on the Feedback portal: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/e085dfaf-d5f4-ed11-a81c-000d3a7a48db
(The more noise we make, the likeliest Microsoft will be to support Bookings in EWS)
I'm afraid there is currently no solution to this issue. Calendar on macOS uses Exchange Web Services (EWS) to synchronize with Microsoft 365, whereas Calendar on iOS uses Exchange ActiveSync (EAS). Both are technologies developed by Microsoft to synchronize calendars.
I've contacted Microsoft support over this issue, and they told me everything was working fine in their end. Fantastical also has the same issue, so I contacted their support. The problem is that EWS doesn't support Bookings, whereas EAS does.
Microsoft needs to rework EWS so that it supports Bookings. I'd advise to contact Microsoft support directly, to ask them to do so. Not supporting Bookings in EWS completely defeats the purpose of Bookings. It shows really sloppy work from Microsoft on correctly supporting Apple users.
In the meantime, if you want your booked events to show up in Calendar, the only solution is to use an alternative service. Personally, I'm considering moving to Cal.com.
I've contacted Microsoft support over this issue, and they told me everything was working fine in their end. Fantastical also has the same issue, so I contacted their support. The problem is that EWS doesn't support Bookings, whereas EAS does.
Microsoft needs to rework EWS so that it supports Bookings. I'd advise to contact Microsoft support directly, to ask them to do so. Not supporting Bookings in EWS completely defeats the purpose of Bookings. It shows really sloppy work from Microsoft on correctly supporting Apple users.
In the meantime, if you want your booked events to show up in Calendar, the only solution is to use an alternative service. Personally, I'm considering moving to Cal.com.
Is it just me or does the latest version of Calendar (Sequoia 15.3.2, Calendar 15.0) appear to work now? I'm seeing entries from Bookings in my exchange calendar now in MacOS Calendar now. Can anyone confirm this? Did they change to EAS?
I upgraded to Sequoia 15.4.1 and Calendar 15.0 (2995.5.5) and it still does not work: Bookings entires in my Exchange Calendar do not appear in macOS Calendar.
Considering Microsoft deprecated EWS in 2018, I doubt they'll release an update to this. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/clients-and-mobile-in-exchange-online/deprecation-of-ews-exchange-online
