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Mac Calendar - intemittent sync problems with MS Exchange server

I'm having intermittent problems with Mac Calendar 6.0 not syncing some events originally created in MS Outlook.  My PA uses a Windows based machine and has shared access to an Outlook profile on her machine for my MS Exchange Server user account hosted on Rackspace (www.rackspace.com.au).  She creates calendar events for me using her Windows based Outlook (2013 for Windows 7).  My Mac (Macbook Pro, early 2011, OS X 10.8.3) is set up to sync Calendar (and Mail and Contacts) to my Rackspace Exchange server account.  It mostly works pretty well but from time to time some events that are on my Exchange server account just don't show up on my Mac in Calendar, and I can't figure out why not.

I also use an iPhone 4 (iOS 6.1.3) and an iPad 3 (iOS 6.1.3) and don't have any trouble with Calendar on either of those.  The events missing from Calendar on my Mac are present on my iPhone and iPad.
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I use google calendar and have similar issues.   Dumb question, but if you are in Calendar and you click on the menu Calendar > Preferences > Accounts can you see if you are using CalDAV or Exchange?
Sometimes the calendar connection to exchange goes offline.
Try manually refreshing the calendar from the VIEW menu. Does that help ?
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There is only an Exchange account showing under Calendar>Preferences>Accounts
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I'm not sure if that helps because the event I definitely knew was not synchronising did sync after I turned on turned on time zone support (Calendar>Preferences>Advanced>Turn on time zone support).  I found this tip on a user community site.

I'll close this issue until/unless it re-occurs. Thanks for your suggestion.
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Accepted answer: 0 points for Helihead's comment #a39232535

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As the problem is intermittent I'm not sure if it is fixed
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Thanks for your suggestion.  I did as you suggested, and also cleared all the Calendar related plist files I could find at the same time.  So far it seems fine.  I'll keep an eye on it and see how it goes.  It's always difficult to know if intermittent problems are solved, but so far, so good.  Thanks again.
Are you still on 10.8.3?  That should be 10.8.4.  Hit your Apple Icon and Update Software.
Thanks padas.  
I see 10.8.4 includes "Microsoft Exchange compatibility improvements in Calendar"!