View Your Google Calendar in Outlook 2007
Google Calendar is a phenomenal web application for managing your calendars, but so many of us are still forced to use Outlook at work. The good thing is you can have the best of both worlds by subscribing to your Google Calendar from Outlook.
The first thing you'll have to do is get your Google Calendar iCal link. Just open your Google Calendar and go to Settings \ Calendar.
Pick the calendar you want to sync with Outlook. Now in the Private Address field click on the ICAL button. This will show you your private Calendar address. Copy this address to the clipboard.
Now open Outlook and go to Tools \ Account Settings.
In Account Settings choose the Internet Calendars tab, click on New… and Paste the URL you just copied from Google into the location and click Add.
You then get to the subscriptions screen. Give the calendar a name and description and click OK.
You can now see the calendar in the list in the Outlook sidebar panel.
That is all there is to it! Now I can view my Google Calendar side by side with my personal or work calendar!
Someone's gotta add this feature to OL2003
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I tried it, but Outlook 2007 tells me that it "cannot verify that the URL is a valid calendar" address or add it to Outlook.
The tab in Account Settings takes the URL and everything but doesnt update, and doesnt give me any "Other Folder" in the list.
Of all the complicated stuff Outlook 2007 does so well, how did they manage to screw THIS up?
HA! I thought M$ finally did something right. Nope. This feature would be great if it would just work. I have the same issue as the fellow above me.
Make sure you choose the Private Address in google calendar and not the Calendar Address.
How do I find the private URL? I can only find the public one and don't see the "Private address" option.
You have to be logged in as the user to the "Private Address" option. If you're looking at someone else's calendar you'll only see the Calendar Address option.
Becky,
Thanks for the suggestion, but it seems like it was something else:
Using the admin control panel, I had set the highest level of sharing to "Do not share". This makes the "Private address" section disapear.
So, to fix this: go to "https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/MYVERYCOOLDOMAIN/Dashboard" and log in as an admin, Service settings -> Calendar -> Sharing options.
Save the changes and we have lift off!
Cheers!
Stephan Dekker
(Filed under: "Missing private address section", "Private ical not showing up")
The steps above worked for me and i see the goggle calendar in outlook. But whenever I update the calendar in google will it automatically show my the updated google calendar when I view it in outlook?
Worked great and easy for me. It updates everytime I hit "send/ receive" (F9). Too Easy!
One slight problem I have noticed is that the google calendar is a read only calendar. I would like to be able to write to my google calendar from within Outlook. As of now, the only way to do that is to invite my google address as an invitee to my event on my default calendar in outlook. I hope that makes sense. Write back with any questions.
Does anyone have the answer to the issue of "cannot verify that the URL is a valid calendar" address or add it to Outlook?"
Are you sure you are getting the right link from GMail. I don't recall if it is iCal or XML that you need, butI think you might have selected the wrong one.
Hi,
I found the way to get around the "cannot verify that the URL is a valid calendar" problem (for Google calendars, at least) was to:
1. paste the private URL for the ICS file into your browser (Firefox, in my case) location bar
2. change the http:// prefix to webcal://
3. hit enter
4. the browser should then offer to launch the external application (Outlook 2007) for you to handle this URL.
5. Follow the Outlook 2007 prompts and it should subscribe to the calendar
YMMV
Thanks man works great…
Daniel,
That did not work for me
I still get the "cannot verify that the URL is a valid calendar" even that way.
Does this have something to do with the URL encoding of the "@" sign in the username part of the URL?
Thanks Daniel. That worked like a charm.
Daniel Pauly,
I tried what you said and it worked… except for the fact that by doing so, you are basically skipping the Internet Calendar subscription process. My shared Google calendar is not added to Outlook's Internet Calendar list, and thus is not updated. It's more like adding a snapshot than subscribing to an Internet Calendar.
Has anyone found a way of avoiding the "cannot verify that the URL is a valid calendar" problem? I imagine this problem is due to the fact that we are using POP3 emails, and as such are not logged into a a "domain".
Fernando
This makes sense …. it seems Excel basically does just take a screenshot of ht URL … We need to investigate how to add a live feed to Excel. Also … how to verify results are in "real time".
Dude, you need to update this post and talk about google's tool for synching your google calendar with outlook…
http://dl.google.com/googlecal.....taller.exe