Source: apple.com
In November I blogged about ‘Setting Up iCloud Calendar in Windows 8 Mail App‘. This could be applied to a Windows Phone 7 or Windows Phone 8, too. But A reader of my blog, Luca, reported problems in adding iCloud calendar to his ‘Windows Live’. I checked my ‘Windows Live / Outlook.com’ account and got the same issue. I got a look into my iCloud subcription in my Google calendar, too, and tried to add my iCloud calendar, but I failed.
I got this error: “Could not fetch the url because robots.txt prevents us from crawling the url.“.
Obviously, Apple is telling web crawlers not to index my calendar. In principle, this is a good security item, but Google decided that it’s calendar importing service should obey this request. As a consequence I got the above mentioned error message. After googling for a while I found the website of Jason Funk: Just paste your iCloud link and push the ‘Continue’ button. Then copy the new generate link and go ahead as usual in google calendar. After that you got your iCloud calendar subscription in google calendar website. Problem solved! Thanks to Jason Funk (you’ve got the possibility to give him a donation…;-)).
But if you got a look on your Windows Phone, you cannot see the subsribed iCloud calendar. Further more, you are not able to see any subscribed calendar on your Windows Phone. That’s normal. To get these things running go to Google Sync and activate the subscribed calendars you would like to get synced with your device, e.g. your Windows Phone. After that, take your Windows Phone and:
- Go to settings / email + accounts
- Choose your Google account
- Change ‘Download new content’ and save (synchronisation will start, after that you can go back to your old settings)
- Go to your calendar settings and now you will see your subscribed iCloud calendar via Google sync
That’s it!
Taking everything into account it is possible to sync your iCloud calendar (‘read only’) via Google calendar and Google Sync with your Windows Phone 7 or 8.
Up to now I’m still looking for a solution for the ‘Windows Live / Outlook.com” issue…
Stay tuned! 
Gee Are Pabst
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thanks for that description. I could Setup the icloud calender at Google but I struggled with Googly sync. I don’t see an activation option there. Could you please describe this in a more great Detail?
Hi Günter,
is this the first time you try to set up Google Sync with your Windows Phone? Maybe you got this problem because Google stopped the Active Sync protocol effective January 30, 2013 for new Windows Devices:
http://support.google.com/a/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=2716936
Right now I’m testing some work arounds and as soon as I find a fix, I’ll come back…
Stay tuned!
Hi Günter,
up to now I found the following workarounds:
- for Google mail: http://miapple.me/2013/02/03/setting-up-syncing-gmail-in-windows-8-and-rt-mail-app/
- for Google contacts: http://miapple.me/2013/02/04/setting-up-google-contacts-in-windows-8-and-rt-contact-app/
It seems that there is no workaround for Google calendar because Microsoft does not support CalDAV…
But I keep on looking for…
Cheers,
Gee Are
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