Outlook Calendar is Not Syncing? Here’s What You Can Do

Reset your Outlook profile to re-establish the connection

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Updated onMarch 26, 2024

updated onMarch 26, 2024

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Outlookis a very popularemail clientand an all-around tool for managing your emails, contacts, and calendars. As such, you’ll find people syncing their appointments to the Outlook calendar to stay organized.

However, you may miss out on these appointments because your calendar failed to sync. But why would this happen? We get to the bottom of this in this article and provide solutions.

Why has my Outlook calendar stopped syncing?

If you’re missing out on events and important engagements because your Outlook calendar is not syncing, it could be because of one or more of the following reasons:

How do I force Outlook calendar to sync?

Try the following simple workarounds before moving on to the more advanced solutions:

1. Run the Windows Store Apps troubleshooter

2. Repair Microsoft Office

3. Reset the Outlook app

4. Delete and re-add the problematic account

Although this method may work, and you’ll be able to sync again, you stand to lose all your data. This can be a rigorous process of remembering all details or important emails. To cushion yourself and avoid losing all data, you canmove some of your Outlook folders to your Desktop.

Speaking of Calendar feature, we also have a great guide on how toadd a public folder calendar to Outlook, so be sure to check it out.

In case you’re having issues with events, you can import them manually. To learn how to do that, check our how toimport ICS file in Outlookguide. Even more, don’t hesitate to take a closer look at our guide on how tokeep Outlook’s calendars selected.

Over onto other related issues. You may also experience other sync-related issues, such as the0x8007274d error. Lucky for you, we’ve already discussed and come up with fixes to resolve it quickly.

This isn’t the only sync issue, and we wrote recently aboutOne or more items in the folder you synchronized do not matcherror, so don’t miss it.

That’s it for this article but feel free to keep the conversation going with any additional solutions or suggestions in the comment section.

Outlook Calendar is Not Syncing? Here’s What You Can Do#

Why has my Outlook calendar stopped syncing?#

How do I force Outlook calendar to sync?#

1. Run the Windows Store Apps troubleshooter#

2. Repair Microsoft Office#

3. Reset the Outlook app#

4. Delete and re-add the problematic account#