synchronising outlook on android

Florio · 02 May 2019

I have Office 365 on my PC, and use Outlook for my appointments, contacts etc. My principal email account is with gmail, which I normally access via Outlook.

I've just installed Outlook on my smartphone (Samsung A3) so that I can have my calendar, contacts and email on hand when I need them. The problem is that I now need to synchronise it; the calendar, for example, is currently empty while on my PC it is full of appointments and events.

How can do this?

Florio

Steve C · 03 May 2019

I finished up using the Gmail app for email where you can add your Outlook email account. I also installed the Outlook app which is needed to synchronise contacts which I prefer to store in my Microsoft account.

jimbo45 · 03 May 2019

Hi there

when setting up Outlook or whatever email client you have on Samsung choose IMAP rather than POP3. Ensure IMAP is enabled on other devices as well -- then all email is stored on the server -- syncronisation is then automatic !!!!! "Seeemples!!!!!!

The standard email client on Samsung is quite good believe it or not --- don't even THINK though of saying anything about probably the worst app I've ever seen on any device --that wretched Bixby on Samsung phones!!!!!.

Cheers
jimbo

Infrasonic · 03 May 2019

Put your Office 365 account details into the phone in the Outlook app. settings, and then in the Outlook app. calendar settings make the Office 365 account calendar the default.

I run a slightly more convoluted way of doing it as I pefer the native Android calendar on my phone and so have my Outlook.com calendar subscribed to the Google (Gmail) one via the web settings. So when I look in the Android Outlook app. or W10 mail calendar, I see a clone of the Google calendar.

As you are mixing and matching between Google and MS there are ways of making your entire ecosystem (email/contacts/calendar/documents) mirrored from one to the other for redundancy, but it's probably better to save those set up procedures for when you are more fluent in both systems.

If you run multiple ecosystem accounts try and avoid the merging of contacts databases et al on the various client platforms as it can lead to unweildy situations operationally.
I made that mistake and had to delete and reinstall/sync everything to set it up independently for each account.

Florio · 03 May 2019

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

As I originally wrote, I am already accessing gmail via outlook. The main problem seemed to be the calendar.

I've now solved this by synchronising my outlook and google calendars thanks to a freeware program (Outlook-Google Calendar Sync).

Florio

Steve C · 03 May 2019

Florio said:

Thanks to everyone for your replies.

As I originally wrote, I am already accessing gmail via outlook. The main problem seemed to be the calendar.

I've now solved this by synchronising my outlook and google calendars thanks to a freeware program (Outlook-Google Calendar Sync).

Florio

A key advantage of Gmail is that is gives more control over when your phone synchs which is an issue if you seek to minimise the need to recharge