HTC Sync 3: Calendar and People Greyed out. Cannot Sync with Outlook

Hello Folks,
I thought I would post this for anyone else that is having issues with HTC Sync 3. I just upgraded from my Windows Mobile 6.5 phone to the Android HTC Thunderbolt so I was use to syncing my Outlook Calendar and Contacts to my phone with Windows Mobile Device Center. For whatever reason, once I got HTC Sync installed and connected to the TB, the Calendar and People options were grayed out. After a lot of searching the web and colorful metaphors, I finally found two solutions that when combined, allowed me to sync Outlook 2010 using HTC Sync 3.
What I did was run a repair on Outlook 2010.
Go to Start > Control Panel > Programs & Features > Outlook 2010. Choose Repair.
This will take a few minutes and did not destroy any of my existing data in the outlook.pst file.
When it is complete, reboot your PC. Your HTC Sync should now allow you to enable both Calendar and People tabs.
IMPORTANT: Before you connect your Android to the PC and run HTC Sync, make sure that:
If you have used another program to copy your contacts information to the device, you should delete the Android data first. Otherwise you will get duplicates in Outlook and the Android. To delete the contacts, I went to People > Menu > Delete > Menu > Select All > Delete
If you have used another program to copy your calendar information to the device, you should delete the Android data first. Otherwise you will get duplicates in Outlook and the Android. To delete the calendar information do:Settings > Applications > Manage Applications > All (tab) > Calendar Storage > Clear Data
You will also need to do:
Calendar > Menu > more > calendar’s > menu > remove Calendars > select calendar > OK.
After that, I was able to sync my Outlook 2010 information to the HTC Thunderbolt.
Hope this is helpful
Peace

I've had this problem for 3 months! Here are things I've tried which didn't work (my Outlook 2003 calendar still won't sync with my iPhone so my iPhone essentially does not have a working calendar)...but they might work for you:
delete everything off the calendar on your iPhone & check the "override your calendar the next time you sync" button & sync
try setting up a new user on your computer and syncing to that (make sure you've unchecked that "override everything on the iPhone at next sync" button) to see if things will move from the iPhone to the computer

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