When setting up iCloud to sync with Outlook, you may receive the following error message:
Your configuration could not be started due to an unknown error. (0x800706ba)
This iCloud error may be the result of having an IMAP account set as the default data file in Outlook.
The solution:
When you get to the point where iCloud asks which folders to sync, All Calendar, Contacts, Tasks or Some Calendars, Contacts, Tasks, choose Some Calendars, Contacts, Tasks.
Then untick all of the folders so nothing on the computer syncs to iCloud, only iCloud sync down.
If you have contents in the folders you need in the iCloud, you can move them to the iCloud folders after the iCloud is added to Outlook.
If the error is not caused by trying to sync events and contacts up to the iCloud and you are using an IMAP account with "Calendar (this computer only)" and "Contact (this computer only)" folders, try this adding a PST file to your profile and set it as default. After iCloud is setup, you can set the IMAP data file as the default and remove the .PST.
Diane, you are a gem! This problem has bugged me since my new computer was commissioned in February 2021. Your help got iCloud installed but nothing synced due to iCloud Synchronization error 0x800CCC0E. At answers.microsoft.com, Paul 007 had the solution to fix this by creating a two-factor password for the iCloud account in Outlook. The two solutions combined and everything is working again in my vexing 1st-World problem.
Interesting. In the past, you only needed 2FA enabled on the account and an app password if you added the account separately from iCloud addin - the iCloud addin counted as an apple client if you didn't want 2FA and took care of the authentication.
What I did was to go to https://appleid.apple.com/ then to Security > APP-SPECIFIC-PASSWORDS > Generate Password...Copy the password, then in Outlook, Fil e > Account Settings > Account Settings, click on your icloud.com email then Repair, delete the password and paste the new password and go...Then is said it was OK and then it synced.
OK!!!! FINALLY...someone who knew how to fix this problem! Thank you!!!!!
Thanks you! i've been searching through APPLE and MS and all over the internet and no one had this fix! awesome!
You are amazing.
It's taken 3 days to find a way around this that actually works!!!
You have saved me again!
Hip Hip Hooray! Thank you Diane!!!!
Thanks A TON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have lost days of my life trying to resolve this issue. Called APPLE support yesterday and was told my WINDOWS needed upgraded despite my laptop being a few months old - and told also by the ladies supervisor that iCLOUD wasn't compatible with OUTLOOK.
Thank you very much.