A new calendar feature, called Interesting Calendars, is rolling out to Office 365 Exchange Online and Outlook.com users (on the new server). The current calendars offered are sports-related, with major sports such as MLB, (American) Football leagues, Hockey, Soccer, Cricket, Auto Racing, and many more as well as the Olympics. In addition to showing upcoming events, scores are added to past events.
To start using the calendars, log into your Office 365 or Outlook.com account and visit the Calendar module. Click on Add Calendar and select Interesting Calendar.
Select the sport, then the team to add the calendar.
To delete Calendars, go into the Interesting Calendar pane, click Manager then click the X next to the calendars you wish to delete.
Like the Birthday and Holiday calendar, these calendars are added as an additional calendar, so you can turn them off as needed to reduce clutter in your calendar display. The calendars sync to Outlook and devices.
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8 Comments on "Office 365 and Outlook.com: Interesting Calendars"
I added a Blackhawks calendar, then decided the game reminders were a bit annoying. I removed the interesting calendar, but still get the outlook calendar notifications for each game, despite the game not being on my calendar anymore... Any thoughts on why? Google Pixel phone with Outlook email app.
Were the calendars removed from all of the devices? Try restarting outlook using the /cleanreminders switch. If there are rogue reminders, this will get rid of them.
I would find it 'interesting' if Microsoft would roll out shared calendars for mobile devices. I need to know my bosses schedule much more than I need to know when the Cleveland Indians are playing.
They are being rolled out for Office 365 business accounts - currently works on iOS, Android is coming soon. They won't make it to outlook.com accounts at this time, but maybe eventually.
I would like to create a calendar that reminds all company users of the financial calendar - for example Period close dates. Is that possible?
It is possible, although not in the interesting calendar feature (yet). There are several different ways to do it - the easiest might be to create the old-fashioned HOL file and send it out. It's also possible to insert calendar events using powershell.
Diane - while this is a cool feature, we don't want it on our Enterprise PCs. is there a way to disable this feature via Group Policy, or on the O365 Console? Thx in advance for your help!
it won't be in policy - would be an office 365 setting but i don't think they announced a cmdlet for it - will double check.