Comments on: Sync Your Outlook and Google Calendar with Google Calendar Sync

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 03:50:59 +0000

why does it appear that if you have reocurring events in gcal that they dont appear in outlook but if you do it the other way i.e reocurring in outlook they will appear in gcal

By: Rice

Rice — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:45:47 +0000

Google Calendar Sync does NOT synchronise Outlook categories.

Especially annoying if you try to sync two Outlook installs via GCal. You can upload from Outlook to GCal – but when you download from GCal – all your Outlook categories have been stripped….

Also, Plaxo have started charging for their Outlook sync feature, after years of it being free, and never any talk of it being a beta/temporary offering – losing them even more of their diminishing customer goodwill.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 19:50:10 +0000

I have windows 2007. I keep getting the message that I have deleted 21 events do you want to continue, when I have not deleted anything. Is there a way to eliminate this. I keep saying no and the amount of messages keep increasing. There was one event from the calendar that appeared in the deleted box 6 times. Any clue on whats happening and how I should handle it?

By: wes

wes — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 06:05:48 +0000

If you are using 2010, see my fix (very hackish) on my blog: http://tumblr.com/xju2lgdge

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:30:39 +0000

I tried Google Sync but had too many issues with it. Found SyncMyCal through a web search and have been pretty happy with it. It’s not the prettiest interface but since it can be set to automatic, you never really look at it. One of the best features is the ability to be able to set up multiple sync “operations” to take categories or groups of categories in Outlook and put them in different Google calendars.

It also does contact syncing but I’ve a little less success with that. Also, the latest version is quite old — not sure if they’re keeping it up to date. And it’s not free.

But it’s done me and my wife well. She even uses it to sync her Blackberry: Outlook->SyncMyCal->Google->Google Mobile Sync->Blackberry. All automatic.

By: Mr. X

Mr. X — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:21:54 +0000

As Xander Crews notes above, a key piece missing is a free piece of software to synchronize Outlook and Gmail contacts. Mysticgeek – can you work your magic and dig something up?

Google tasks only came out of beta today
(http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/.....abs.html).

By: Xander Crews

Xander Crews — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:52:02 +0000

This is all well and good, but when are they going to go ahead and add contact and task syncing? I know they’ve got some sort of Apps method of doing it, but it’s only for enterprise and educational users. I’m still looking for something to replace the formerly free Plaxo service.

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:28:56 +0000

FYI:
Microsoft Outlook 2010 (currently in technical preview) does NOT work with the Google Calendar Sync. Google has not said when they will remedy this.

By: Charlie Cacioppo

Charlie Cacioppo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:26:22 +0000

I would relabel the use of this as ‘experimental’. It seems to work for me but when I uninstalled it there are problems. It blows out the default Outlook 2007 profile settings. It leaves the Registry settings for this in a ‘changed’ state and does not put the default back. Every time i run 0utlook2007 it asks me for the default problem no matter how many times I check the box to make the default profile stick.

Regardless of the beta label, it just makes good software practice to clean up after the customer removes your package. There are a number of unaddressed issues with this package in that regard.

By: X-Tremo

X-Tremo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:35:57 +0000

Any idea about how to sync the calendar also? I’m using this for calendar and soocial for contacts but i wanna have everything in one tool