Synchronising email and contacts is relatively straightforward with the fall back option being to export from Outlook 2011 for Mac and import to Outlook 2016 for Mac. Alternatively you can select the import Outlook 2011 data on the computer in the Import dialogue of Outlook 2016 for Mac. Once you have all the email and contact items imported, which will create an On My Computer folder, select all the email or contact entries from your old Outlook and then drag them to the new Exchange Online account in Office 365.
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This is far from ideal, but it works, even if it does take some time. Synchronising calendar items is a whole different problem, where you will need to select each and every calendar item individually, or at least change the view to Month and select entries month by month, and copy them to Exchange Online.
That’s fine if you only have a handful. If you have several thousand entries, retained over several years, it’s not at all practical. However, there is a solution, even though it is a little knife-and-fork. This involves exporting Calendar items to the OLM file, converting the file to ICS and exporting that ICS file in to the Mac Calendar App for the Exchange Online calendar.
It seems a little convoluted, but check the steps below:. Export only your calendar items from Outlook to an OLM file, call it Outlook:. Convert the OLM file to an ICS file with one of the Apps from the App Store, such as this. Open the Mac Calendar App:. Select Calendar and click Accounts:. Ensure you have the Calendar selected for your Exchange account:.
Select Calendar and click Preferences:. Ensure that Enable this account is selected:. Create a new event in your Exchange Calendar:.
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