Link Microsoft Calendar with Alexa
To link your Microsoft account calendar, launch the Alexa app on your Android or iOS device or the web at alexa.amazon.com. Log in and head to Settings > Calendar.
On the next screen, tap or click on the Microsoft option to link the account. Then sign in with your Microsoft account email and password and check the box to stay signed in. For your Microsoft account, you can use Hotmail, Live, Outlook.com.
After signing in, you’ll need to give Alexa permissions to access your Microsoft profile and contacts, as well as your calendars and other information. Once you do that, you should be ready to go.
At the time of this writing, you can only have one Microsoft account connected at a time. However, you can have both a Google and Microsoft account set up at the same time. You can also set which one you want as the default for new events in the Alexa app Calendar settings. Hit the drop-down menu and select the one you want.
Summing up
To get the upcoming events on your calendar, say: “Alexa, what’s on my calendar?” Then Alexa will read off the next events you have scheduled. If you have Google and Microsoft calendars set up, it isn’t a perfect experience in my testing anyway. It seems to read your events in the order they are scheduled, and no way to tell which calendar the event was scheduled in. So, you might want to migrate your Outlook calendars to Gmail or use the Outlook calendar only. You can also add an event to your calendar by voice. Just say, “add an event to my calendar,” and Alexa will ask some follow-up questions and verify the date, time, and name of the event. Of course, that will also sync to your calendar so you can view it on a PC or mobile device.
While you can set Cortana reminders to display on the Calendar app in Windows 10, Alexa doesn’t read those off to you. Hopefully, as this feature is updated and fine-tuned, we’ll see more improvements. Still, this is promising for those of us who live in the Microsoft ecosystem. More Microsoft services like Groove Music and better Cortana integration like the upcoming Cortana suggested reminders. Um, I guess I’m not sure why it’s not working. You say you rebooted…does that mean your echo? You might want to hit the mute button on it and leave it off for a couple of minutes and then turn it back on. That should force a firmware update for Alexa. I actually had to do that to get it to work for me. Another thing you can try is add an event to your calendar via voice by saying: “add an event to my calendar” and Alexa will ask some follow-up questions and verify the date, time, and name of the event. Hope this helps. Keep us updated! :) Do you have an O365 account or a work Exchange account? I have O365 and had no problem linking it with Alexa. But I understand this will not work with a regular Exchange account. HTH Comment Name * Email *
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