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Hello,
I wonder if Outlook 2016 has the same option as Outlook 365 version?
I've tried to find in Outlook 2016 client and OWA possibility to add the birthday calender of my contacts but I've found nothing.
My colleague claims that's possible and he had this option on his previous job.
Please help.
You dont see it here:
https://www.msoutlook.info/question/recreating-the-birthday-calendar
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Hi @semen nikishin ,
Agree with Andy. I have tested on my environment and found the the function of Birthday calendar actually is related to your account instead of Outlook client. If your account support it and we could enable this feature in OWA as mentioned above. If you still need more help, please feel free to post back. And if you don't have other questions about it, in order to close this thread normally, please kindly mark the helpful post to answer, which would benefit others who also has similar issue.
Hi @Jade Liang-MSFT
As I understand right I can switch the birthday calendar on in Exchange 2016 and I'm not able to do it just in client Outlook 2016, right?
This is not good because I have no access to the Exchange 2016 configuration and we're not planning to migrate to Microsoft Office 365 in the nearest future.
What's the type of your account? Are you using Exchange 2016 account? If so, we could actually enable the birthaday calendar in our web mail as the picture in your post or like below, and the birthday calendar could display in Outlook desktop client automatically once we turn on it.
I have an Microsoft Office 2016 Pro Plus on my PC
I have an MS Office Pro Plus Account
Hi @semen nikishin ,
Thanks for your update, please kindly understand the account that I mentioned above is the mailbox that you configured in your Outlook, we could check the account type via File>Account Settings>Account settings. If you indeed use the Exchange 2016/2019 account, we always could turn on/off in your owa as the picture mentioned above. If not, you could try to contact your exchange administrator to get more information.
Hi @semen nikishin ,
Do you still have any questions about it?
If not, in order to close this thread normally, please kindly mark the helpful post to answer, which would benefit others who also has similar issues.
Thanks for your understanding.
I have an Office Pro Plus 2016 Client
anonymous userDavid I'm not sure that you get me properly.
I don't have cloud account in MS 365, I mentioned it just for making easier to understand what feature I want to turn on.
I'm working at the MS 2016 and have no access to Exchange configuration. All I can it's to work with client Outlook 2016 settings or OWA.
If it possible to switch on from Exchange server side I suppose I can make a request to Exchange server support group.