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I write this post after a couple weeks and many hours of trying to fully sync my calendar in Outlook 2010 with iCloud. I'm using a Windows 7 PC and the latest iCloud 2.0 control panel. I have encountered multiple issues and quirks.
For example, I discovered that when merging an existing Outlook primary calendar that contains recurring events to the Cloud, major problems occur. The control panel "time remaining" for Outloook Setup steadily increases past 30 minutes and the progress bar stalls. It then abruptly stops after about 10 minutes, reporting that Outlook is successfully setup. But only a portion of my 2600 events have been copied to the Cloud. Other times, the control panel simply crashes, citing a CalDav error.
I then changed my strategy by merging an Outlook calendar containing only single occurring events. That works fine. Then I recreated the recurring events on icloud.com and they synced with Outlook fine...with the notable exception of custom recurring events.
I've been able to work through all the bugs until this one.You can easily illustrate this for yourself by isolating the flaw. Create a new calendar in the Cloud so that it appears in Outlook (or vice versa). Then create just a single custom recurring event in the Cloud, like MLK's birthday. This example recurs every third Monday in January of each year.
However, when this event syncs to Outlook, it does not carry over the custom pattern. It instead recurs on the same day each year. In my example, this was January 21 because that happened to be the date of MLK's birthday in 2008, the year that I tried creating it in. So Outlook showed MLK's birthday occurring on a Saturday (January 21) in 2012.
If you instead create the same event in Outlook (i.e. third Monday of each January), it syncs to the Cloud with the proper custom recurring pattern. That's great, except if you every need to "Sign Out" in your iCloud control panel and sign back in, the custom recurring pattern will not be maintained when the Cloud events are transferred back into Outlook.
I believe this singular flaw is behind a LOT of people's problems. I've read through countless posts of people becoming frustrated with the inability to correctly sync iCloud and Outlook. Very often, people are specific about recurring events being involved. But most everyone doesn't know WHY they're having problems.
Like many of you, I have spent many hours experimenting and diagnosing. I have been unable to resolve this fundamental problem, which will always prevent me from being able to rely on iCloud for my calendar needs. Recurring events, including those with custom patterns, are essential.
Anyone have insight or a fix to this?

Thanks mcauble, in fact it's woks. I spent 2 hours and 80.-€ withe the Microsoft helpdesk concerning my outgoing message on Outlook that are blocked when the icloud add-in is installed.
Back to the iCloud control panel 1.1 solved the problem.
Window 7, MS Office 2010
Thanks to you!
(And none congratulation to the Apple developper that are no tested the 2.0 version before! )

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