I have four mail accounts configured in Outlook 2013. One of them is a Live-account (or Microsoft account or whatever it is called these days (xxx@live.com)). I use the calendar on the live account. How can I have it so that when receiving a meeting request on one of the other accounts (IMAP), the meeting request is saved in the Live account calendar when choosing to accept it?

In Outlook 2010 this seemed to work fine by selecting the Live data file as the default, but it does not seem to work any more?

Regards, Peter.

First, please check your Live account status in Outlook 2013, setup as IMAP type or ExchangeSync type?

If you are running Live account as IMAP type, calendar would not download into Outlook and there is no way to control calendar item in client site.

If you are using Live account as ExchangeSync type(Server Address: m.hotmail.com), the calendar item would be stored in its default one and we can view it both web-access and Outlook 2013 site.

Have a good time.

Cheers,
Tony Chen
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My live account is configured as Exchange ActiveSync. And the calendar works just fine per-se. But if I receive a meeting invitation on my other account (a normal IMAP account), and choose to accept the meeting request, I want the calendar entry to end up in the calendar that belongs to the Live account, not the IMAP account to which the e-mail was sent.

Is there any way to do that?

I thought I can create a rule to copy it to live account with EAS profile. Test and it could be copied onto live account's Outlook calendar but failed to upload into live account mailbox (even wait a long time). However, as far as I know, When using EAS, Outlook is always up to date with Mail, Calendar, Contacts and Tasks. Can you test to copy one calendar item into live account's calendar to check if it would sync with live account web-access?

Thanks.

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Hello, Any update?

Tony Chen

When copying a calendar item manually from a local calendar into a Live EAS calendar it seems to work correctly as far as I can tell.  But I'm not sure I follow in how this helps me to have meeting invitations received via mail on one account be saved in the calendar I want?

Regards, Peter.

But I'm not sure I follow in how this helps me to have meeting invitations received via mail on one account be saved in the calendar I want?

It is just a shadow copy in your live account and sync with you live mailbox, you can view the calendar item no matter in any place. However, you cannot accept/decline it via live account. Just be a workaround.

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So, is there really no way to select in which calendar to save a meeting invitation received via mail in Outlook 2013?  I actually have to save it in the default calendar (which I cannot change) and then manually copy it into the one I want it in?

Regards, Peter.

You needn't copy it manually but create some rules to make it automatically.

Tony Chen

That is such a convoluted response! It does not even work unless your machine is on at all times with outlook running on it! 

Q: How do I wear my earring on the left ear.

A: Take your right hand behind your head, reach all the way around and put it on the left ear.

Did anyone even dig deeper to locate the real customer problem?

The real problem is that when someone sends you a meeting invite and you accept it, it ends up on your local calendar. This local calendar does not sync, so unless you are on the same machine, you cannot see the appointment request on other machines including your mobile phone.

So, if I have an online calendar like Exchange, Gmail or Live, how do I set that calendar to be the one that outlook puts all appointments data in? Then I can see all the appointments (and their reminders) even when I am on the road. 

That is the real business problem. Trying to solve it with Rules will not work for all scenarios and is not really a solution. This is one of the main usage scenarios and I can't believe it does not work. Most people do not use their local calendar. They use a calendar which is synced across devices.

All we need to know is how to set an online calendar as the default calendar in outlook. What settings do we change? It is not obvious and I haven't been able to find it either. It should really be as simple as selecting a calendar, right clicking on it and selecting "Default Calendar".

Ever since my upgrade to Outlook 2013, all my new appointments and meeting requests are being stored on the local calendar instead of my Exchange calendar and this is driving me nuts. Before I figured it out, I missed meetings because they did not show up on my mobile phone calendar. This is pathetic. After having used Microsoft software for 15 years, I now sympathize with people moving away from it. 

Here is the answer that works for me.

You have to change the "default data file". Just changing the "default account" is not enough.

1. File->Account Settings (clicking on any account's settings will bring up the old Account Settings dialog)

2. Go to "Data Files" tab (second from left on English language installs)

3. Select your online account and click on "Set as Default". An information dialog may pop-up. click OK.

4. Close the dialog. you are done.

Once you set the Default Data file to your Exchange account (or Live account), all new appointments and meeting invites you create are stored on that calendar. All new meeting invites you receive are stored in the calendar of the account they are sent to, provided you have connected that calendar to outlook, otherwise they are stored in the default calendar as well.

Hope this helps other folks who are frustrated by this as well.

Here is the answer that works for me.

You have to change the "default data file". Just changing the "default account" is not enough.

1. File->Account Settings (clicking on any account's settings will bring up the old Account Settings dialog)

2. Go to "Data Files" tab (second from left on English language installs)

3. Select your online account and click on "Set as Default". An information dialog may pop-up. click OK.

4. Close the dialog. 

5. Make sure that the calendar you want to use is moved to the top of the list of calendars ("My Calendars" in the calendar view) and it selected to display.

6. done

Once you set the Default Data file to your Exchange account (or Live account), all new appointments and meeting invites you create are stored on that calendar. All new meeting invites you receive are stored in the calendar of the account they are sent to, provided you have connected that calendar to outlook, otherwise they are stored in the default calendar as well.

Is there a way to "disconnect" a calendar from an IMAP account (the calendar is marked as "This computer only" and does not actually exist on the IMAP server).

Here is the answer that works for me.

You have to change the "default data file". Just changing the "default account" is not enough.

1. File->Account Settings (clicking on any account's settings will bring up the old Account Settings dialog)

2. Go to "Data Files" tab (second from left on English language installs)

3. Select your online account and click on "Set as Default". An information dialog may pop-up. click OK.

4. Close the dialog. you are done.

Once you set the Default Data file to your Exchange account (or Live account), all new appointments and meeting invites you create are stored on that calendar. All new meeting invites you receive are stored in the calendar of the account they are sent to, provided you have connected that calendar to outlook, otherwise they are stored in the default calendar as well.

Hope this helps other folks who are frustrated by this as well.

> all new appointments and meeting invites you create...

> All new meeting invites you receive are stored in the calendar of the account they are sent to... 

That's exactly the problem. If I *receive* a calendar invitation it goes into the *wrong* calendar (the IMAP calendar for that e-mail address), instead of the shared EAS calendar. Changing the "default data file" as you describe does not change this behavior. I need *all* calendar items, no matter who created them, to be stored in the same calendar. Specifically, I need everything to be stored in the shared EAS/Outlook.com calendar, not a local IMAP calendar associated with an email address.

So what's the solution?

This solution is a bit solving the issue. But in any case we are not changing the default calendar but we change the default storage and default account. I am not so happy with it but I will try how it will behave in a mix environment O365, Linux IMAP and Windows Phone and all that need to be sync...

This is the answer to the 'copy to my calendar' problem in Outlook 2013 where the copy constantly goes to the wrong calendar.

This is also the answer to the 'copy to my contacts' problem in Outlook 2013 where the copy constantly goes to the wrong contacts.

Thank you for finding it.

I'm having the same issue...

You can create an appointment in Outlook and it will go to your Windows Live Calendar.  However, when you receive an appointment, such as a meeting request, from a different account, the appointment does not go to your Windows Live Calendar.

I share your same frustration.

Microsoft, please provide a solution!

Was anyone ever able to solve this issue the way you described it? I switched back to a blackberry from an iphone precisely because I could not accept an outlook meeting invite in my outlook and have it reflect on my iphone. The Icloud did not work for precisely the same reason. I am back on blackberry and installed the outlook connect. It has the same problem. You end up with multiple calendars but the invite is received in the local copy so it isn't pushed to the cloud and reflect on other devices. Please help if you were able to find a solution. Have spent days on this....