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Mar 06 2008

Finally! Google Calendar Sync with MS Outlook!

Posted by: Chris in Tech

I was checking my RSS feeds today, and one of the Official Google feeds that I subscribe to had a posting about the new Google Calendar Sync tool!

Sure enough, then I accessed my Google Calendar, I found this nice link at the top:

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I always wanted to use Google Calendar, but I;ve been kind of stuck using my work Outlook Calendar to manage my life as I have my phone syncing to it, and it worked quite well, but I was missing the online aspect.

Downloading the tool and running it, the initial screen looks like this:

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The initial sync took a while as I have a lot of calendar data in Outlook.

Thanks, Google!

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2 Responses to “Finally! Google Calendar Sync with MS Outlook!”
  1. Peter Woresly says:
    March 26th, 2008 at 11:20 pm

    This has been available via Plaxo for some time. How does this tool compare to Plaxo’s offering? Are there any sync issues?

  2. Chris says:
    March 27th, 2008 at 9:15 am

    Peter,

    I used Plaxo sync when they first introduced Gmail contacts sync, but they didn’t have calendar sync at that point. I haven’t looked at it since.

    To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of Plaxo, but perhaps I’ll give it a try and see how it compares.

    The Google Calendar Sync app sits in your taskbar, and you can configure it how often you want it to sync. It just does the magic behind the scenes (much like the Plaxo Outlook toolbar).

    So far, I have not seen any problems with the sync (i.e. no duplicates, it handles recurring events well [from what I’ve seen], etc…)

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