If your desktop computer is running on a Windows operating system, then we guess that you're not strange with Microsoft Outlook, right? As it is known to all that, MS Office Outlook is always used to help their users to send/receive emails, manage contacts info, write schedules with calendar features, and so on. And it works well all the time and regains lots of warming welcomed from all kinds of people around the world. However, with the popularity of Apple's iDevice, and the frequently using of smart phones, more and more people wish to sync the outlook info with their iPhone or iPad for convenient using in the daily life and work.
Actually, when you need to manage multiple devices with varying contacts, emails and more, choosing to download iCloud Control Panel for Windows to sync your outlook info with iCloud seems to be a nice option under this circumstances. Never mind, the whole process is really easy, you can follow the below steps to reach your goal of syncing outlook with iCloud directly.
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Steps to Sync Outlook with iCloud for Windows
Step 1. Download iCloud control panel on your desktop computer, and launch it. Here, you'll be required to login into your iCloud account by entering your iCloud ID and password.
This message is about the impossibility to synchronise contacts and calendar between my iPhone iOs calendar app and MS Outlook 365 for Mac. Since mobility is more and more important, and since smart phones have occupied an space before occupied by laptops, it's really a need the data managed MS Outlook 365 for Mac (like calendar and contacts) could be authomatically synchronized in iPhone apps. The easier, non-techie way is to use third-party calendar service as an intermediary between Outlook for Mac and iCloud Calendar. One obvious choice is Google Calendar. You would want to sync both your Outlook for Mac and iCloud Calendar to Google Calendar to make all data available on both end.
Step 2. After entering the main interface of the iCloud, you can click on 'Contacts, calendars & tasks with outlook'. Then click 'Apply' button and wait for a few seconds.
Step 3. When the above steps is finished, you can find the outlook contacts, calendars and other info are available on your iCloud. At present, you can go to your iPhone and enter the 'Settings', login into your iCloud account on it and turn on contacts and calendars for the sake of syncing your iPhone with the outlook details.
Note: You need to ensure that the iCloud outlook add-in is turned on in your outlook program, and if it is not turned on, you can follow the below steps:
for Outlook 2010 and Later
- Open the File menu and check the 'Options' in the left panel. - Here, a pop-up window will appear, you only need to click on the 'add-ins' option in the left panel. - Select the iCloud outlook add-in from the list.
for Outlook 2007
- Go to the tools section and choose trust center. - In the left panel, select the option of 'Add-ins'. - Go through the active add-ins section and select 'iCloud outlook add-ins'.
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How to Sync iCloud with Outlook Easily?
Sometimes you may wish to sync iCloud contacts or calendars with Outlook, then you can also use the iCloud control panel to reach your goal. Below is the detailed steps:
- Start Menu > Control Panels > iCloud to enter the iCloud control panels on your Windows computer. Or you can directly download and install the Windows version on your PC, and directly launch it.
- In the control panel, you can see lots of options like 'Mail with Outlook', 'Contacts with Outlook', 'Calendars & Tasks with Outlook', etc. for your reference. Just tick the types of files you wish to sync with Outlook.
- Click 'Apply' button and wait for the end of syncing.
Note: Mail, contacts, calendars and tasks are only synced with Outlook 2007 or later version.
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Believe it or not, the advancement of technology might be as much about politics as it is about breaking the limit of what's possible with the available tools. One example is the interconnectivity. Big companies are preaching about moving everything to the cloud and using our devices as tools to access the data. It means that one platform should be able to sync seamlessly to another.
And yet, even with all these evolution and progress, many people still can't believe that Microsoft still hold back and doesn't allow it's Mac version of flagship calendar application - Outlook - to sync with Apple's iCloud Calendar on the Mac. While on the other hand, users can sync their iCloud Calendar with Outlook on their PC, which is practically the same thing.
Everybody screams for Microsoft to add the feature, but for one or the other reasons that we don't know, the MS Office maker still refuses to do so.
There are lots of people who work with both Mac and Windows and it will be an inconvenience if you need to do everything in your calendar twice - one in the Mac's iCloud Calendar, and one more time in Windows' Outlook, just because Microsoft doesn't want to allow Outlook for Mac to support iCloud Calendar. If you are both the users of Mac iCloud Calendar and MS Outlook, there's no way to sync the two together.Or is it?
The Non-Elegant Way
First, we need to accept that there is no elegant way to enable the sync between iCloud Calendar with Outlook for Mac. There are, however, non-elegant alternatives.
The root problem with this non-compatibility issue is that Outlook for Mac doesn't support Apple iCloud calendar (CalDAV) and contact (CardDAV) synchronization. To fix the problem, we need to overcome the limitation.
Hosting Your Own CalDav and CardDAV Server
One solution is hosting your own CalDAV and CardDAV server using the free package Baïkal Server, but this requires some expertise and unfortunately, there's no easy way available yet.
Using Google Calendar
The easier, non-techie way is to use third-party calendar service as an intermediary between Outlook for Mac and iCloud Calendar. One obvious choice is Google Calendar. You would want to sync both your Outlook for Mac and iCloud Calendar to Google Calendar to make all data available on both end.
Or to simplify the process, you can totally ditch both Outlook for Mac and iCloud Calendar and totally move to Google Calendar.
Using Windows Outlook
If you have access to a Windows computer, you can sync the iCloud Calendar data to the Windows version of Outlook, and sync the data between Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Mac.
Care for Your iPhone on Mac
Messing with your Calendar data comes with the risk of losing it, and it's not fun losing data that you've build across a long time. So you need to protect the data at all cost. One app that can help you with the task is iCareFone for Mac.
Tenorshare iCareFone for Mac (iPhone Care Pro for Mac) takes a one-click approach to protect, repair, clean, optimize and eventually speed up your iPhone, iPad and iPod. It can help you solve all iOS update/jailbreak stuck easily and let your iPhone/iPad/iPod perform the best.