Subscribed calendar not updating

I have a free Hotmail account which I currently use for my business (have had the Hotmail account for years), and it's also the account I have my Windows 10 Pro OS connected to.

I noticed about a month ago that the one and only calendar I subscribe to through this Hotmail account no longer updates. So when a change is made to the subscribed-calendar it no longer updates on the Hotmail calendar where I added the subscription.

I have tried unsubscribing and re-subscribing but it still does not update. I also created another free Outlook/Hotmail account and subscribed to that same calendar and it also does not update on that account either.

So now I am considering the M365 Business Standard plan to resolve the calendar issue. So under this new M365 Business Standard account I would subscribe to this calendar again and hope that it would correctly update itself as it should.

Besides calendaring a secondary reason to choose the M365 Business Standard plan is to start (finally) using my own domain for my business email. I already have a website with my own domain.

The calendar I am trying to subscribe has the following URL: Error | Wyzant Tutoring.................. (edited for some privacy).

Will buying the M365 Business Standard plan resolve the issue? Or is there something more fundamental going on here with calendar subscriptions?

Berton said:

I also have a Hotmail account plus the Outlook.com account, Outlook.com was intended to replace Hotmail some years ago and both finally merged into Outlook – free personal email and calendar from Microsoft (live.com)
I just tried the link you gave for the calendar and the page can't be found, Error 404 but the site will load, didn't find anything on their main page about calendar.


Does your Domain Hosting Service provide E-Mail support, usually Webmail? Mine does and I don't need to use Microsoft Outlook with it.

Most of those webmail services are pretty hideous and often riddled with ads. Roundcube seems to be a fairly common one offered as part of hosting packages but it's still a dog compared to outlook.

If you can ever manage to avoid the stupid "auto setup" that thunderbird has - that's not a bad package that runs on Windows -- why a lot of these packages make manual setup almost impossible is beyond me. If you have several email providers with different user names and passwords with inbound and outbound e-mail servers that aren't in the "auto config" database you are stuck andit's almost impossible to set these up easily. Outlook can be "got round" via command line startup outlook.exe /profile to get the classic set up screens though.

Cheers
jimbo

Here is another description of the problem with an image of my Outlook desktop app.

In the image you can see my Outlook desktop app open to the calendar. The green and red Wyzant calendars are actually from the same URL, but the green one never updates.

The green calendar was subscribed to through the web while the red one was subscribed to through the desktop app.

The locations of the two are different and I don't know why. The one that updates correctly, the red one, shows a location of "\Internet Calendars". The green one which never updates shows a location of "\myemail@hotmail.com\Calendar". Hovering over them in the side pane under "Other Calendars" shows the green one as "Wyzant - myemail@hotmail.com - From Microsoft Exchange" while hovering over the red one shows "Wyzant Calendar - Internet Calendars".

On the calendar on the web only the green one appears. It's only on the desktop app that they both appear.

My main problem is that I need the red one which updates to appear on the web calendar associated with my email because some business software I use uses my email to see my calendar(s) to figure out when I'm busy.

Berton said:

A question re: your image, the upper left corner third icon is similar to the one used in the Notification Area of the Taskbar when indicating no Wi-Fi connection, is that the same? If so do the calendar displays change differently when connected?

Actually that icon is outlook's shortcut icon for "Add calendar from the internet". It doesn't have anything to do with the internet connection. I added it there b/c I though it might be a handy shortcut.

It's connected to the internet in the image.