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Synchronize Google Calendar and Outlook with Google Calendar Sync
Google today released a piece of software that may just be the holy grail of calendar synchronization. Well, if you use Windows and Outlook, anyway. Google Calendar Sync is a utility that automatically synchronizes your Outlook and Google Calendar appointments.You can configure Google Calendar Sync for 2 way sync, meaning that any time you update either calendar, the changes will be copied to the other. Or you can choose a 1-way sync which will only copy changes made from one calendar to the other and not vice versa.
What's really exciting about Google Calendar Sync is it gives you a way to synchronize your calendar across multiple devices easily. Just install Google Calendar Sync on multiple computers and now when you update your laptop calendar it will automatically sync with Google Calendar, which will automatically sync with your desktop PC, which will sync with your Windows Mobile PDA. Pretty cool, huh?
Google Calendar Sync is hardly the first tool for synchronizing Outlook and Google Calendar, but it's free and it performs automatic synchronization at regularly scheduled interviews while most other programs cost money and/or require you to activate them manually.
Now if Google would just release a version that works with Thunderbird (with the Lightning extension) and iCal.
[via Official Google Blog]
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blewett said 9:01AM on 3-06-2008
Meh.... I mean it's nice and all, but let me know when it can handle multiple calendars instead of just the default.
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Justin Brown said 7:58AM on 3-06-2008
Plaxo. that and a lot more
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Zia said 7:59AM on 3-06-2008
Great news, especially that this is not a 3rd party software but an official release from Google.
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copperfish said 8:00AM on 3-06-2008
www.goosync.com
Works great to my Symbian phone and since I dropped Outlook long ago its all I need...
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copperfish said 5:29AM on 3-06-2008
www.goosync.com
Works great to my Symbian phone and since I dropped Outlook long ago its all I need...
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Sam Abuelsamid said 8:00AM on 3-06-2008
The google calendar provider extension does automatic syncing between lightning or sunbird and gcal. After installing, you subscribe to any google calendars you want and any changes made on your machine instantly show up in google and vice versa. None of this once per hour or 15 minutes. Works on mac and windows
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Sam Abuelsamid said 6:25AM on 3-06-2008
forgot the link
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/4631
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Adam said 8:00AM on 3-06-2008
Doesn't work with Windows 2000...can't use this at work which is the most useful place for me. That sucks.
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Barry Cleave said 8:01AM on 3-06-2008
Great step forward!
In a post on my blog on 5 Feb 08 (GTD - Getting Things Done) I said:
"At present I am constrained by the need to use MS Outlook at work so I really need some freeware utilities that can intelligently exchange data with Outlook." I am sure this applies to lots of other people.
Unfortunately we are still using Outlook 2000 at work and the Google Sync utility only works with 2003 and 2007. We also sit behind a firewall and proxy so I wonder if this will also be an issue (Anyone know the answer to that?) Anyway I shall certainly use it at home but will still have to rely on Activesync and my mobile phone to sync my work calendar
Regards
Barry
http://proreviewer.com
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ChiliPepr said 8:01AM on 3-06-2008
Anyone know of something that syncs Outlook contacts with the web as well?
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Nick said 9:31AM on 3-06-2008
Schedualworld.com works great however requires a lot of juggling and often can screw up appointment times.
Works just as well as this google sync however it offers the ability to sync calender, Contacts, Tasks, and to do list!
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Frank P. said 9:47AM on 3-06-2008
Seems to work fine for appointments I added myself, but it doesn't sync Outlook events that were added to my calendar by other people.
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rushangshah said 11:19AM on 3-06-2008
Here's something that works with older versions of Outlook, Windows, Palm Desktop, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, and Palm OS phones:
http://www.companionlink.com/products/companionlinkforgoogle.html
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rushangshah said 11:17AM on 3-06-2008
Here's another product that syncs Google calendar + contacts with Outlook, Palm Desktop, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile and Palm OS. It also supports older versions of Windows and Outlook (for Adam, Barry, Cleave, and everyone else who were asking...).
http://www.companionlink.com/products/companionlinkforgoogle.html
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kyoko said 12:15PM on 3-06-2008
I've installed it and every time it syncs, my outlook (2003 SP2 - build number: 11.8002.6568) shuts down without any warning.
anyone having the same issue?
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finkelmana said 12:57PM on 3-06-2008
Didnt work for me... Just causes outlook 2007 to crash on my winXP system.
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nizzy1115 said 7:59AM on 3-07-2008
Works perfect for me. Office 2007 and Vista business. I upgraded to SP1 and it still works perfect. Thanks!
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VitaminCM said 12:28PM on 3-08-2008
Plaxo is a far better solution. It has a toolbar for Outlook and Thunderbird that syncs with Outlook, Gmail and Calendar, Yahoo, MSN, Hotmail, AOL. That covers about 99.9% of people.
If you have an iPhone or Smartphone, then you can sync everything everywhere.
Here are step-by-step instructions on Syncing Everything Using the Plaxo Toolbar.
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Calgoo said 12:34PM on 3-20-2008
Its great to see Google recognize that their users want a sync to a desktop platform and this is a very good start. The sync itself works quite well, many of the people at our office have given it a whirl to see how it all goes.
Unfortunately it does not let you sync multiple calendars or calendars that have been shared with you. You can only sync your default calendar. But hey if someone needs that thats where the 3rd party suppliers come in. We offer a product (Connect) that allows this and there are other companies out there who do this as well, all you have to do is search around a bit.
Cheers!
Calgoo
http://www.calgoo.com
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