Your Nextcloud calendar and contacts in classic Outlook

Your email address with WebOké is a mailbox. Your calendar and your contacts aren't stored in it. You can keep them in your WebOké Nextcloud instead. With the free add-in CalDav Synchronizer, you can view and edit them in classic Outlook.

What does CalDav Synchronizer do?

• It keeps a calendar folder in Outlook in sync with a calendar in your Nextcloud, in both directions.
• It can also synchronise your contacts and tasks.
• It's free and open source, and it's still being updated. You download it from the official website caldavsynchronizer.org.
• It only works in classic Outlook for Windows. Not in the new Outlook, not in the Outlook app and not in Outlook for Mac. For those, see Calendar in the new Outlook and the Outlook app.

In short

1. Create an app password for Outlook in your Nextcloud. Your normal password won't work here (see App passwords: when and how).
2. Install CalDav Synchronizer while Outlook is closed. Afterwards, you'll see a CalDav Synchronizer tab in Outlook. The add-in is in English.
3. Create a new, empty calendar in Outlook, for example Nextcloud. Don't use your existing calendar.
4. In CalDav Synchronizer, create a profile of the Nextcloud type. Enter the address of your Nextcloud, your username and the app password, and link the empty calendar.
5. Do the same with an empty contacts folder if you also want to synchronise your contacts.

All the steps, including the fields you fill in, are in Calendar in Outlook with CalDav Synchronizer.

Good to know

• Choose one place where you create your appointments. Don't also synchronise another calendar to the same folder, or you'll end up with duplicate appointments.
• If you get a 401 Unauthorized message, the app password is wrong or has been revoked. Create a new app password and enter it in the profile.
• Invitations you send from Outlook go out via your email address in Outlook. Also read Appointment invitations that don't arrive.

Tip: Do you use Outlook and want your calendar on your phone too? Then add your Nextcloud calendar to your phone as well (see Calendar and contacts on the iPhone and iPad and Calendar and contacts on Android with DAVx5). That way, you'll see the same appointments everywhere.