Outlook Today not showing birthday of old contacts

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Hi !The birthday events of old contacts (prior to moving to office 365) are not appearing in outlook Today.To note that :if i create a new contact now, the birthday is appearing in outlook today.Old contacts are appearing in the birthday calendar!Please help!Thanks a lot

robertsparnaaij · Answer

ronyf&nbsp;
Outlook Today shows what is on your default Calendar. If the birthday isn't in your default Calendar, it won't display in Outlook Today either.
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When you update the "old" contact, it will rewrite the Birthday entry in the Calendar. Emptying the Birthday field, saving the contact and then re-entering the Birthday field and saving the contact again should do the trick as well.

ronyf · Answer

Hi Robert!Thanks for your reply. The trick works fine. However it is not straight forward when having around 4000 contacts!Appreciate if there is any other solution for this issue.Thanks a lot

robertsparnaaij · Answer

ronyf&nbsp;
Didn't you migrate the Calendar for this mailbox?
Another way to go would be to use a macro to rewrite the field.

ronyf · Answer

Yes the migration was done.Any hint on how to make this macro? Any risk?

robertsparnaaij · Answer

ronyf&nbsp;
There is an add-in from Outlook-Stuff for this and fellow Outlook MVP Diane Poremsky has published a vba macro as well.
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There is no risk to it if you've got your backups in order ;-)
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If you are being prompted for macro security settings or if you are in an environment which does not allow the use of unsigned macro's, you can self-sign your vba macro.

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