Outlook calendar update frequency

Is the problem resolved? If there is anything I can do for you, please feel free to let me know. My apologies for not responding sooner. For someon reason I never got an email notification that you responded on the 21st. I did get the one above so thank you for posting a follow up. Is it possible to configure Outlook to launch the Internet Calendar subscription process in the link you provided above when someone clicks on the "Subscribe" button on an Exchange OWA based ICS calendar?

It currently looks like the ICS is just downloaded locally and added which means it will never get updated. Does it update that way - especially after hitting F9? Larry - if you set up the ICS subscription in Outlook manually the way you described, it does seem to update periodically. The issue I see is that a normal user is going to click the Exchange published calendar "Subscribe" button, see the calendar show up in Outlook, and think they have a subscription to the calendar as opposed to a point-in-time snapshot of the calendar.

So does anyone know of a way to force Outlook into a full "subscription" mode when someone clicks on an. ICS file? Otherwise the ICS file appears to be downloaded and added like a static file.

What version of Outlook are you using? My team has tested this with both Outlook and Outlook , and both exhibit the same behavior of only activating the point-in-time download of the calendar. After thinking about it some, I'm not sure there is much we can do at the client level since Outlook is just reacting to the.

About the only thing my team and I came up with was rewording the button on the Exchange published calendar page to say "Download" instead of Subscribe. That is unless Microsoft can change the link on the file somehow to be something more than a file download. Sorry my reply took so long First of all, this is by design when you open a.

If you create a link ie.. ICS file that uses webcal, then when you click on it via a browser, Outlook will add it as an Internet Calendar. I apologize for this massive delay in response, somehow I never got notified that you had responded to me and I went searching on the Internet again and found your response. I agree - I've spend literally days working on this thinking there was an issue with my Exchange server, but it turns out that it's likely that this is by design!

Sounds like it's supposed to automatically update to me??? Can someone from MS please respond? To my knowledge this has not changed and won't change until Microsoft either changes the behavior of the "Subscribe" button in OWA RE: the WebCal reference above , or changes Outlook to prompt the user if they want to download a local copy of the ICS file the current behavior or reference it from a web URL.

Essentially we are stuck with a Subscribe button that isn't actually a subscription until Microsoft changes something either in Oultook or Exchange. I've struggled with this same issue for a while too. I basically wanted to have an auto-updating subscription to a public google calendar using Outlook While I don't have a fix, I've done two things that have greatly helped my situation and perhaps they will help you and trigger some additional discussion:. Thus, when selected in the web browser, the web browser no longer asks to download the file and instead offers to launch my calendar client Unless the calendar is listed there, Outlook is not subscribed.

I understand Internet Calendars are not supported before Outlook Upon clicking on the webcal link, Outlook with throw a prompt reading "Add this Internet Calendar to Outlook and subscribe to updates? I suppose that's the same as hitting F9. I know this is basically just a rehashing of the previous discussions. I suppose I'm just saying that for me, it basically works.

I've now been able to subscribe to a public google calendar using a Mac OS Also, the initial question seems to be geared towards sharing an Exchange calendar, which I alas have not attempted, but I'm happy that I at least got some part of the Internet Calendar functionality in Outlook to work.

Until they do though I think we are stuck with the subscription not working as users would anticipate it would. The Exchange product group is heavily focused on Exchange at this point so even if they "fixed" this issue, they probably would only do so in Exchange Subscribing to an Internet calendar via Outlook desktop works great thanks for the post, anyone know how to do the same on OWA?

I get the calendar to sync once, then it never refreshes. This delay occurs only on the initial setup of the new shared calendar, and you will not see any more delays once the initial sync completes. In the case of very large calendars, it can take a few hours to sync over all the calendar events.

If you tried the shared calendar improvements, but they didn't work for you, please let us know through Outlook in-app support. To turn off the shared calendar improvements, follow the same instructions as above, and unselect the checkbox next to: Turn on shared calendar improvements. Outlook for Microsoft More Need more help? Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Thank you!

Any more feedback? The more you tell us the more we can help. Can you help us improve? Resolved my issue. Clear instructions. Easy to follow. No jargon. Embed a calendar on your website to display and share your events. Share high volumes of events that can be dynamically updated. Reviewed April 8th, by Michael Nilsson. When your users follow your subscription calendar, a unique URL for your calendar is stored in the user's calendar client Google Calendar, Outlook, Exchange, Apple Calendar, etc.

That unique URL is regularly requested by that calendar client in order to sync with your subscription calendar. When this happens, any changes you have made to your subscription calendar are synced with your followers' calendars, so their calendars stay up-to-date!

Below we have provided the historical sync frequency for each of the major calendar clients:.