Sync SharePoint calendar to NEW Outlook

I wanted to share a temporary fix that may help some of you... God knows I've benefitted much more than I've contributed in forums such as these. I use the "new" outlook and noticed the incompatibility with SharePoint while trying to add in my new team's existing calendars. This is the work around I came up with for importing existing dates, time off requests, etc. so my team didn't have to re-enter every event into a new Outlook Calendar. Of note, after moving everything over that was on the SharePoint calendars, we immediately swapped over to using exclusively Outlook Calendars. Hope this helps:

Step 1: Connect SharePoint calendar with the 'OLD Outlook'

Step 2: Open 'OLD Outlook' calendar and right click the calendar you're wanting to add to 'NEW Outlook'

Step 3: Click "Share" > "Email Calendar"

Step 4: Specify the information you want to include and click "OK". You'll notice the calendar is both displayed as an image -AND- a ".ics" file... this is important
Step 5: Email the calendar to yourself, open it in 'NEW Outlook', and save the ".ics" file somewhere you can easily find it (e.g. downloads)

Step 6: Open your calendars in 'NEW Outlook', click "Add Calendar", click "Upload from file", and click "Browse" to locate the ".ics" file you saved

Step 7: Select which calendar you want to add the SharePoint calendar to and click "Import"

- Matt

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