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Change reminder time of all automatically generated birthday events in the Birthdays calendar
When I create a contact in Outlook and add a birthday to that contact, a new event is created in the special Birthdays calendar. This is great and it works fine. The reminder for those birthdays howe...
Can you just modify an event manually? If you have several thousands events, create a VBA script in Outlook or a PowerShell script.
- The Birthday calendar is read-only and the events there are generated from the birth dates of your contacts. You cannot edit them in Outlook. But even if I could, every time I create a new contact I must change its reminder.
Hi Kiril,
have a look at this: How to edit Birthday Calendar in Outlook 365
And yes, every time you create a new contact you have to change its reminder.
Theoretically, you can create a PowerAutomate flow that will do that silently in the background.
- Thank you for the link, but none of the information provided there is relevant for this issue. I know how to "edit" if that means adding new entries to it: create a contact with a birthdate and then the birthdate appears on the birthday calendar.
I need to somehow modify the entries in the calendar which are read-only.
I tried your suggestion and created a cloud flow, however the calendar is read-only (Error: Your request can't be completed. Read-only calendars can't be modified)
