I am using Outlook 2010 in my company where it is connected solely to an Exchange server.
To be able to follow my company appointments even when I am not in the office, I have published the outlook (Exchange Mailbox) calendar to office.com using the Outlook2010 built-in feature (publish to internet, no access limitations).
Now I have a personal windows live account, thats sync'ed to my windows phone. I have generated the "welcome" email from Outlook 2010 to my windows live inbox and copied (and removed the "s" from "https") the link to import the office.com calendar into my live account, following precisely the steps mentioned in http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook-help/publish-and-share-calendars-on-office-com-HA010355570.aspx?CTT=1
My hotmail calendar accepted the calendar, but fails to show entries. On the details page, it shows a listz of error messages. The german error text reads "Dieser Kalender wurde nicht aktualisiert, weil ein Problem mit der Datei des Herausgebers aufgetreten ist. Wir versuchen, ihn spter zu aktualisieren.", which translates to something like "this calendar could not be updated, because there is a problem with the publisher's file. We will try to update later".
If I type the URL of the published calendar into my browser address bar, I can download the .ics file and import it into Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird, so it seems to be a valid file.
And here is my problem - I'd like to get it working, but have not the least clue what's going wrong and who can fix it.
I have a doubt that it could be because my Exchange "friendly user name" includes an umlaut (Gnter), and so the calendar url contains it, too. Could it be that this confuses the live.com calendar import? But why did it work once?
Guenter from Germany