Outlook sync.... struggling

[mrobbie]

Looking for help as I am going round the bend with this. Never bothered me that much before, but now due to work requirements, its suddenly important.

I have all my email accounts set up in Outlook (2011) for Mac

The same emails are associated with my iCloud account

I am receiving invites into Outlook and accepting on my MacBook Air

I need to understand how I then synch these calendar entries with the calendars in my iMac, iPad and iPhone.

Is there a simple fix for this?

Should I ditch Outlook for mail and calendar and revert to Apple Calendar and Mail apps?

Any info appreciated

Thanks
Mike

 

[mrobbie]

So I have had a play around with this for a bit this morning.

Using Mail and iCalendar do not help.

On the MacBook I get an .ics file which opens outlook and I can accept invite into Outlook calendar, which doesn't synch to other devices.

On the iPhone, I can add the entry into calendar, but it does not accept the invite so the organiser is unaware that I will be attending.

A bit of googling tells me that changes since Mavericks prevent Outlook synching? So this is never going to work?

Surely there is a way to get it to work? This is the first time since moving to Mac 7 years ago that I wish I was sitting with a Windows machine in front of me. First week as a contractor with my own equipment and can only see meetings I need to attend on my MacBook. My iPhone shows me nothing in calendar.

(and copying entries manually between Outlook and iCalendar seems absurd)

 

[mrobbie]

Fixed. Office365 made life simple. No issues so far.