Hello.

I am trying to use outlook.com to sync my Outlook 2007 with an iPad using the Hotmail Connector.

Mail and calendar entries sync fine, however the color category information used in my Outlook calendar entries doesn't alter the color of the respective entries in the Outlook.com calendar, though when I view the individual entry details I can see that there is a Category entry for the correct color.

It also doesn't pass the color information through into the iPad Calendar.

This worked with Google calendars, using a third party sync too,l but I am looking to move back to a Microsoft environment for a variety of reasons.

Can anyone advise me on what the problem is please?

Hi,

I did a test on my side: The account in Outlook was an Outlook.com account, I created an appointment in its calendar, gave it a category. Then I logged on the calendar on https://bay04.calendar.live.com/calendar/calendar.aspx, the appointment was there and I could see the category, but there's no color on it.

Based on what I see, it's probably by design that Outlook.com Calendars don't display category colors, although it already has a category. To confirm this, you can post the question in Outlook.com forum:

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com

Since iPad is not a Microsoft product, I'm not sure and can't guarantee if it supports the calendar categories that Outlook supports.

Regards,