Juniper Websites: How can I sync my Microsoft Outlook (Office 365) calendar?

Overview

This article explains how to sync your school's Microsoft Outlook calendar with your website so that calendar events on your website calendar are automatically updated. 

This feature pushes the content of your Microsoft Outlook calendar to your website calendar. Any changes made to the website calendar will not be synchronised to your school's Microsoft Outlook calendar.

Prerequisites

  • Your school's Microsoft Outlook calendar must be set to public.
  • You will need the login details for the Microsoft Office 365 account where the Microsoft Outlook calendar is hosted to link it to your website.
  • You must have a calendar page set up on your website (see Juniper Websites: Creating a Calendar View).

Instructions

  • Follow these steps to link your account:
    1. Select the Website tab.
    2. Select Calendar Sync.
    3. Select Update settings to open the Calendar Sync Settings:
    4. Select Office 365.
    5. Select Authorise access to Microsoft Outlook:
    6. When prompted, enter the required Microsoft account information for the account where the school's calendar is hosted to create the link. Upon successful completion, the Calendar Sync Settings window will reload as follows:
  • Set which website categories will contain the imported data, and which calendar to pull through:
    1. Select the Website tab.
    2. Select Calendar Sync.
    3. Select Manage calendars to open Synchronised Calendars:
    4. Select the category within your website calendar that you would like the events from your external calendar to pull through to:
    5. Select the Office 365 Calendar you want to synchronise with. By default the calendar is set to Standard Calendar - you will need to change this to the Office 365 Calendar of your choice:
    6. Make sure that Office 365 Calendar is checked and the correct calendar is selected, then select Save.
    7. Close Synchronised Calendars.
  • Follow these steps to manually synchronise your calendar:
    1. Select the Website tab.
    2. Select Calendar Sync.
    3. Select Synchronise now. The Calendar Synchronisation window opens, showing whether the progress is successful:
    4. Close the window.
  • Follow these steps to select which categories to display on your calendar:
    1. Navigate to your calendar page
    2. Select the Edit tab.
    3. Select Categories:
    4. Make sure the category that your external events are pulling into is selected. Check it as appropriate.
    5. Select Save.
    6. Select Save now.
  • Follow these steps to switch on the automatic calendar sync function for your website:
    1. Select the Website tab.
    2. Select Settings.

    3. Select Website Settings:

    4. Select the Calendar tab:

    5. From the Calendar tab:

      1. Set Enable Calendar Sync to Yes. When Calendar Sync is set to Yes, the EWS Body Type setting is displayed. Ignore this setting.
      2. Optionally, set the Time Format (by default this is set to 12 Hour - AM/PM).
      3. Select Save.

Outcome

Your calendar synchronisation has now been set up.

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