Adding an Outlook calender and email

andremeyer1 · May 29, 2018, 9:13am

I subscribed to Agenda with my Mac address but also want to add my Outlook calender and email. How do I do this?

mekentosj · May 29, 2018, 9:16am

In order for your outlook calendar to show up in Agenda it will also have to show in the Calendar app. This requires you to configure outlook under the Internet Accounts tab in the System Preferences.

andremeyer1 · May 30, 2018, 12:32pm

Apologies for my ignorance, but I work on a Mac and I don’t know how you would configure outlook under the Internet Accounts. Please can you assist

mekentosj · May 31, 2018, 9:35am

Does it work if you go to the Internet Accounts tab in the System Preferences, click on Exchange and follow the suggested steps?

mekentosj · January 23, 2020, 10:07am

If despite having configured things as above you, your Outlook calendars still don’t show up in Agenda, we were recently told that this might be related to MDM profiles installed by your workplace:

Dates, Events, and Reminders

My work calendars and reminder lists don’t appear in Agenda

If your Mac, iPhone or iPad is managed by your work through so-called mobile device management (MDM) profiles, it might prevent Agenda from accessing your work calendars (e.g. from Office365 or Exchange). To verify whether this is the case, go to Settings > General > Profiles to check if you have indeed an MDM profile installed and other it has the following specific restriction listed: “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed”. If you have an MDM profile with this restriction installed by default it will not allow sharing of your calendars with Agenda.

To resolve this, you will need to speak with your workplace’s administrator, who will be able to grant Agenda the necessary clearance it needs to access your managed calendars. Specifically, Agenda either needs to be added as a managed app in the MDM profile, which allows it to access iOS’s calendar data, or the “Opening documents from managed to unmanaged apps not allowed” restriction needs to be removed from the MDM profile.

aanandladgaonkar · July 17, 2020, 9:57am

Did so, yet not able to connect

mekentosj · July 17, 2020, 3:56pm

Do the calendars appear in the system calendar app?

web_agenda · May 11, 2021, 10:58am

Hi there… so I checked this. Indeed it is the MDM profile restrictions. JAMF blocks iCloud, basically. Unfortunately – and maybe this is common across large corporates, like the one where I work – under no circumstances are they prepared to either add Agenda to the trusted applications (because OneNote and Microsoft To-Do cover the use cases, in their view) or make an exception for me as an individual to that general rule.

So +1 on “direct” integration with Outlook calendars, or finding some other kind of workaround on this!

darkgrunge · June 11, 2022, 9:14pm

For those behind MDM profiles, I found a small workaround that would give you read-only access to your outlook calendars to show in the iOS Calendar and therefor show up in Agenda.

Read-only calendar in iPhone/iPad native Calendar app:

Open Outlook from your web browser (not desktop app or mobile app).

Go to Settings > View All Outlook Settings > Calendars > Shared Calendars > Publish a Calendar > choose your calendar and it will give you an .ics link

On your iPhone/iPad, go to Settings > Calendar > Accounts > Add Account > Other > Add Subscribed Calendar > paste the .ics link.

Note, this is viewing only, you will not be able to create or edit Outlook appointments, but you can view them and get notifications from them. As Outlook calendar is my main calendar, the inconvenience of not being able to create an event is small compared to not being able to use the app at all.

mekentosj · June 20, 2022, 3:50pm

Great tip, thanks for sharing!