Import Your ICS Calendar Entries To WP7
So, here I am at my first Microsoft MVP Global Summit and so far the stuff I’ve heard is what is public information. There was a lot of tough love for the Windows Phone 7 session and one of the complaints was about not being able to import their MVP Schedule into the phone. The file generated by the schedule builder is *ICS.
The trick is quite simple to import ICS entries to your phone, it’s called Live (Hotmail) Calendar. Here’s what you do:
- Link your Hotmail account to your Windows Phone 7 (yes, I had to mention that.)
- Download the ICS file to your PC
- Head over to calendar.live.com and signin with your Live ID.
- Select Subscribe from the options in the toolbar and follow the screenshot:
The key is to Import the ICS into an existing calendar and choose My Calendar, which is synced with your phone. In a few seconds your entries should be on the phone too:
great tutorial, thank you so much for this I haven’t been able to figure this out for months
Amazing stuff….I’ll definitely try it… Thanks for sharing…
The instructions above said:
Link your Hotmail account to your Windows Phone 7 (yes, I had to mention that.)
Download the ICS file to your PC
Head over to calendar.live.com and signin with your Live ID.
Select Subscribe from the options in the toolbar and follow the screenshot:
Well and good! But how do you do the second step ‘Download the ICS file to your PC’ ? Pls post that too. Sorry to be so ignorant!
Right click on the link to the ICS file -> Save as
Does this allow new ICS files (new calendar invites) to be viewed by the phone without downloading to the laptop?
I doubt that. You’ll have import the ics file again in hotmail.
thanks a lot, very useful!
I’m sorry, but This is a method using the Outlook or Windows live.
I wuold like open whit my devce the file . Ics directly from email and memo on my calendar like I do on my pc desktop where I save the file, open it and put on Outlook… Then with Outlook conector go on the Windows live and after arrive on my device…. Is too long.
I want open the file on my device … Like OS system… Do you know?
I love WPhone, but I’m very angry for this problem!!!!
It would be much easier if win phone simply would support data import,
so that one could simply import the ics from the phone to the calendar. I
don’t have outlook and I don’t have hotmail and I don’t have windows
live id and I don’t want that stuff. Microsoft should let people decide
by themselves how they want their stuff stored. I don’t want to sync my
personal data in the cloud. I have it on my local hard drive and I want
it to stay there!