How to sync your iPad with Outlook

How to sync your iPad or iPhone with Outlook.

• With iPad connected (either tethered or via WiFi) open iTunes.
• In the left panel of iTunes under DEVICES, click your iPad.
• Click Info at the top of the screen
• Click those items you'd like to sync.

I sync:
All Contacts with Outlook.
All Calendars with Outlook.
All Mail from Outlook
Under Other I sync Safari Bookmarks
I don't sync Notes because I sync those to iCloud (you don't want to sync to both places as you will likely end up with duplicates on your device)

Under Advanced, I have nothing checked, if things got out of whack on the iPad I would then check most all of these. Sync once. Then un-check them.

Be sure to turn off iCloud syncing of the items you are syncing via iTunes. Otherwise you will likely have duplicates (aka 'a mess').

How to turn off iCloud syncing with Outlook: http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2011/11/remove-icloud-calendar-from-outlook.htmlPublish Post

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Remove iCloud Calendar from Outlook

This is how to remove the iCloud calendar from Outlook. You can still sync your contacts/calendar with your iPhone or iPad, you just want to do that within iTunes (very easy too). You can also continue to use iCloud to sync pictures you take on the go, etc (that's what I do).

First you'll need to uninstall iCloud from your machine (you'll re-install later below):

1. Close Outlook.

2. Go to Control Panel

3. Under Programs: Uninstall a Program

4. Double-click iCloud and select Remove

Now go back into Outlook, right click and delete the iCloud calendar.

Next you'll re-install iCloud:

Locate "iCloudSetup" (it's probably in your Download folder. If you don't have the program any longer, see further below), double-click and follow instructions to reinstall. Once installed, open and UN-CHECK the option to sync with Outlook.

Also, I would go into Settings, iCloud, and switch off everything that syncs with iCloud except for Photo Stream and Find My Ipad. All those other items you should sync through iTunes (Mail, Contacts, Calendars, etc.) - Otherwise you are ripe for a 3-way collision.

*To download iCloud again:

http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/pc.html - for Windows /PC

http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/mac.html - for MAC

To sync your iPad with Outlook: http://digital-qa.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-sync-your-ipad-with-outlook.html

To turn on iCloud on your iPhone:
http://www.apple.com/icloud/setup/

IMPORTANT NOTE: New photos you take will be automatically uploaded to your Photo Stream when you leave the Camera app and are connected to Wi-Fi. Photo Stream does not push photos over cellular connections.


On a PC, the default folder where pictures are installed is here: C:\Users\Apple\Pictures\Photo Stream\Uploads. You can change this location by visiting Photo Stream Options in the iCloud Control Panel for Windows.


The photos you upload to Photo Stream are stored in iCloud for 30 days to give your devices plenty of time to connect and download them.


Individual photos cannot be deleted from your Photo Stream. You can, however, delete all the photos in your Photo Stream by clicking the Reset Photo Stream button in your account at icloud.com. The Reset Photo Stream button will instantly delete all Photo Stream photos stored in iCloud, but it will not remove any Photo Stream photos that have already been pushed to your devices.


Source for the iCloud photo stream notes above: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

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Easy Way to Delete all Contacts from iPhone at Once

This is my favorite way to fix my iPad or iPhone contacts when they get screwed up (duplicate contacts, etc.):

"...go to the Info tab in iTunes (when your iPhone is attached). Change the "Sync Contacts with" option to something else that has no contacts in it." e.g. a gmail account, yahoo acct, etc." Now sync. Afterwards you can change back to whatever you had before.

Source and thanks: How to delete all contacts from IPHONE at once | iPhone and iPad Forums

This usually happens if you are syncing your contacts to multiple sources. Pick just one. I picked Outlook for syncing contacts (and mostly only backup pictures taken on the iPhone to iCloud).

Now that you've done that, here's how to:

Remove iCloud Calendar from Outlook

How to sync your iPad with Outlook

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