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I had to completely remove Exchange from calendar - nothing synced, completely useless.
Currently I can only use Exchange in the browser.

Ridiculous.
 
If there is an annual problem with exchange accounts then you would think Apple would dog food this and have one of their teams use exchange for their work calendar and email communications and make sure that team is having no issues in addition to looking for and addressing any exchange issues from beta testers before release. You cannot keep allowing the same set of exchange bugs to show up in every maxOS release.
 
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I'm not letting Ventura any where near my M1 Max until 13.3 or later. In the meantime, I shall test Ventura on x86. But s3 sleep + drives attached via thunderbolt is a no-go.
 
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I’d like to see Apple return back to bi-annual releases. macOS was Macs are not phones and these annual releases are more akin to service packs that break everything.
Agreed, with one exception. I would like to see Apple's apps go into a bi-weekly(ish) or even monthly rollout like many other apps... separate from the OS. This should apply to both MacOS and iOS variants.
 
I just use Outlook now, not worth the hassle to use mail with Exchange any more. Bonus is that it keeps my work and personal mail totally separate.
Same here for both macOS and iOS. We've also started directing all our Mac users to try the Microsoft apps. The number of helpdesk calls for issues with mail and calendar syncing dropped dramatically when we moved in that direction. Some Mac users still use Mail and Calendar but they are few and far between.
 
That's best directed to Microsoft QC as they get early access to upcoming OS releases from Apple.
macOS Mail/Calendar (and the underlying components) are Microsoft Apps? That is going to be news to Microsoft and Apple.

Try reading the issue again. Users are reporting issues using the NATIVE apps with Microsoft Exchange. Other apps (like Outlook) don't have a problem. So, explain to me why you are blaming Microsoft?
 
Not to mention the bug the made security software not able to run on Ventura giving an impression it is running while it is not. This is not the Apple it was. Digging the hole deeper and deeper.
 
What a short memory you have, those releases were often bug riddled till the first, second or sometimes third point releases. Nothings changed apart from the colour of the lens in your spectacles.
Except for the fact (and I think you already understand this) that we didn't have to go through that trouble every single year. This yearly update cycle just feels unnecessary for macOS. It seems like right after all the bugs get fixed from the current version and developers finally get around to making their apps compatible, another major update is announced that breaks everything all over again. We don't need this.
 
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I just use Outlook now, not worth the hassle to use mail with Exchange any more. Bonus is that it keeps my work and personal mail totally separate.

Exactly how I roll. No issues here.
I'm curious, does that include using the Outlook app on your phone? -- I used Exchange in Apple's apps for years but seeing too many issues this time around. Wondering if I go Outlook, is it best to use it on the Mac and iOS?
 
Might not be related, but I'm getting issues with subscribed calendars* on the stock Calendar app:

There was an unexpected error with the request (domain SubCalICSDataActorErrorDomain/ error 4).

*Could be related in AirTable uses Exchange.
 
As it happens, Outlook has been having problems with Exchange for a long time now, so this could be partly on Microsoft. The "new" Outlook for Mac doesn't support Exchange at all and Outlook for Windows has increasingly been having major problems with Exchange accounts. They're pushing folks to go to Microsoft 365 and away from the old Exchange servers. We're finally planning an upgrade in the Spring and it won't come a moment too soon.

As for my own Mac, I've been using Ventura's Mail, Contacts, and Calendar with my Exchange account since the beta launched in June and I haven't had a single problem with any of them this entire time. So, as wide-spread as this issue sounds, it's certainly not 100% of users having issues. I can't reproduce the problem on any of the Macs I have here (I run a help desk with a Mac-heavy user-base), so maybe it's related to some specific configuration of Exchange that our org doesn't use. I'm currently encouraging users to upgrade to Ventura until I discover a first-hand reason not to.
 
The built in mail and calendar apps work well with iCloud and probably IMAP. They have never worked reliably with Exchange or Google over any long period of time in my experience, both for myself and users I support. It's a shame because the UI is really good, but that's meaningless if you can't count on it. Software testing has a long way to go to catch up with reality, but it's also discouraging to see that reported bugs like these weren't fixed in time for release.
I support about 150 Mac users with our Exchange server. About 40% of them use Outlook for Mac exclusively, the rest use Apple apps. I've had close to 100% issues with the Outlook and almost 0% with Apple apps. In the 15 years I've supported Apple in IT, I can count the Apple / Exchange connection issues I've ever had on one hand. However, support Microsoft products gives me job security.
 
I'm not sure what they're talking about... I've have issues with exchange not syncing correctly with apple calendar in macOS 12.x all the time - I'd just blame Microsoft for this - they will certainly prioritise their own windows client over their macOS client over Apple-made clients
 
I'm curious, does that include using the Outlook app on your phone? -- I used Exchange in Apple's apps for years but seeing too many issues this time around. Wondering if I go Outlook, is it best to use it on the Mac and iOS?
I've had no problem with either the iOS or the Mac Outlook (full) programs on my devices. I like to keep work and personal separate, so it works for me.
 
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