Outlook.com (mail, calendar, contacts): sync with Nexus 4 (JB 4.2.2) via Exchange

[ilgordon]

Hey everybody,

I'm quite happy with Gmail, but the web frontend just doesn't do it for me. As I decided to get rid of my local Outlook client, I fell in love with the frontend of Outlook.com (especially the mail UI).

So I forwarded my mails from Gmail to my outlook.com account, configured my GMail as "send as" account and imported contacts and calendar data. Then, I set up the @outlook.com account as Exchange account in my stock android mail client (with s.outlook.com as Microsoft recommends on their website, changes automatically to dub-m.outlook.com) and activated also contact/calendar sync.

First, everything seemed to be fine and I felt like in heaven (the fact that I can only send mail from the outlook mail adress from my phone doesn't harm me). The initial sync worked well. Then, I realised that calender entries are not synced back from my phone to outlook.com (only one-way-sync??). Then, contacts disappeared and/or new contacts didn't sync anymore - in neither direction. Additionally, I recognized that mails that are read or moved to another folder on my phone still remained in the inbox on outlook.com.

I searched the web for answers the last days, but now finally moved back to gmail. Disappointed that the Exchange service seems to be lacking what I remember to be Exchange from business environments.

My question? Is there really no way for a full-functional sync with outlook.com on android? Please don't recommend the official outlook.com app (I don't consider THIS to be the solution). I'd really like to use the outlook.com frontend, but stay on android..

I was hoping that these are temporary issues due to the migration of millions of users from hotmail to outlook.com, but in the meanwhile I'm afraid that MS is not completely willing to support android natively.

Would be so glad for solutions! Thx!
Shi Teki

 

[ilgordon]

No community in this internet can give me an answer - and I thought this is an issue that concerns a lot of people out there.

Too bad..

 

[boslon]

Hi there. I think the problem may be your Nexus 4 rather than outlook.com. I purchased a Nexus 4 and couldn't get outlook.com / exchange sync to work correctly. I sold the Nexus and bought a Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini and Outlook.com Exchange sync works perfectly. Very strange.

 

[ideasingh]

I had a tough time today - but figured it out :

its all there.... not sure how much trouble it will give me later, but looks good as of now !

try these steps :

mport events from other applications

If you'd like to migrate your events from another calendar service, click the name of the calendar you've been using. Below are instructions on how to import these events to Google Calendar from a few other calendar services.

Microsoft Outlook Calendar
Open Outlook
Click Calendar
Right click on the calendar you need to export and choose Save as
Select type iCalendar format
Click on More Options and select Date Range -> Whole calendar, Detail -> Full details
Click OK and then Save
In Google Calendar, click the down-arrow next to Other calendars
Select Import calendar
Click Choose file and find the file that contains your events, then click Open
Select the Google Calendar where you'd like to import events, then click Import