Glad you got at least a manual sync working using Mail/Calendar. I couldn't for some reason, including my contacts (People app). That's why I decided to look for an answer so that everything (email, calendar, contacts) would sync without me having to remember to do manual syncs. Using eM Client for desktop mail/calendar/contacts syncs beautifully with my GN3. I bought OneCalendar for my MUI on my SP3 and it syncs with my eM Client calendar anytime I open it. Each to their own - I would have preferred it to have worked with Outlook/Mail/People, but it just wasn't going to happen for some reason. Actually, I didn't have trouble with email syncing across devices using Outlook/Mail, but when it came to the calendar & contacts, no dice. Now it all syncs with no real effort on my part.
That's why I finally decided to use Chrome instead of IE. I wanted the Favorites/tabs to sync but that wouldn't happen with my GN3 using IE on my SP3 (no IE for Android). Chrome syncs between my SP3 and my GN3. Later, I wasn't too happy with Chrome being a resource hog, so I went with Firefox on both devices and it syncs between them just fine. However, I still find myself using IE at times (like right now I'm using MUI IE posting this) because it is so much smoother scrolling etc. than Chrome or Firefox. So, for general surfing I tend to use MUI IE, but on the desktop I use Firefox for research and such so that I'll have Favorites and tabs synced just in case. Not ideal, but tech life seems to be a never ending set of compromises.