Outlook – Change Outlook’s default calendar to iCloud (meeting requests end up in wrong calendar)

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Following scenario: I've got a main computer (Windows 7, Office 2010) which is being used to manage contacts, meetings, etc. using Outlook. Now I've added an iPad and an iPhone to sync using iCloud. I moved all appointments and contacts from the old PST file to the iCloud file. All the data syncs nicely.

The email account I'm using in Outlook is an IMAP account which opens up another data file which brings us to a total of three data files in Outlook's side bar.

The problem: When one of our clients sends us meeting requests via email they show up in the IMAP's inbox. When we open them up they automatically get added to Outlook's default calendar (the one in the original PST). Is there any chance not to add them to that calendar but the iCloud one? Basically we could completely get rid of the original PST since we don't use it at all anymore but the settings do not allow me to remove this PST file and set the iCloud one as default.

Thanks!

Best Answer

I had this problem with two PSTs a couple of years ago and the solution was to set up a rule to move the invite (when it arrives) immediately out of the original PST and into a folder inside the other (iCloud) PST.

If you now open the invite from the new location, you should find that any responses should now go into the calendar within that PST and not the original one.

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