I recently subscribed to Office 365, allowing me to add Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook to my mac.  I have many calendar events on my mac in ical.  I hope to pursue an office job soon, and would like to get used to the Outlook calendar feature.  I would like to sync the Outlook calendar (Outlook 2011) with the ical calendar.  However, when I try to click on the option in Outlook to turn sync on, I am not allowed to do so.  I saw an e-mail that you need to download and install Service Pack 1, but I am wary of doing so without official instructions.  I have seen e-mails that syncing ical with Outlook is no longer supported with the arrival of Mavericks on the mac.  Please advise.

Hi

You can download and install SP1. Im running Mavericks and have not seen any documentation around that.

Hello,

I am running Mavericks last update, and I have Outlook 2011 SP1. I have followed the instructions on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2452489/en but it doesn't work, I guess I'm doing something wrong. My iCloud account (contacts and caledar) syncs perfectly with Calendar and Contacts on my Mac, but it won't sync with Outlook.

I have tried removing from my user's Library/Preferences both:

- com.microsoft.Outlook.SyncServicesPreferences.plist
- com.microsoft.SyncServicesAgent.plist

As well as from my user's Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011:

- OfficeSync Prefs

But nothing :-(

All setup is done, it should work, but it seems that Outlook and Contacts /Calendar in my Mac are not seeing each other.

Any idea? Thanks a lot in advance.

Ivan.

Hi,

Since we only support Office for Windows in the current forum, I actually suggest you post this question in Office for Mac Forum to get dedicated support:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/mac

The reason why we recommend posting appropriately is you will get the most qualified pool of respondents, and other partners who read the forums regularly can either share their knowledge or learn from your interaction with us. Thank you for your understanding.

Melon Chen
TechNet Community Support

Simply put there is no direct support for ical or google calendar native within Outlook 2011 for Mac.  there is some way to make ical real the calendar, but it doesn't give actual functionality (Read Only, No Respond, or No Create).  With 4 years I had hoped they would have gone ahead an developed native compatibility with Google and ical.  But, being stubborn they have as of yet failed to provide compatibility with the OS Platform native format for calendaring.