Syncing Outlook with Google Calendar

June 6, 2007 in Technology with 15 Comments

Calgoo
Here’s the situation. Emily is moving forward with an all-out effort to eliminate her paper calendar system and move to Google Calendar. That works great for me because I can access her calendar. Here’s the dilemma. I use Outlook at work. Emily, obviously, can’t access my Outlook calendar. That means I have a problem I’m hoping you can help me solve.

I’m thinking the easiest solution would be to dump all my Outlook appointments into my own Google Calendar. I know how to export my Outlook calendar into Google. That’s easy. I’m trying to find a way to sync my Outlook automatically with Google Calendar so Emily can always access my work calendar.

Found Calgoo Calendar today. Is that the easiest and best way to sync my calendars and let Emily have access to my life? If not, what’s the better option?

Just in case you’re wondering, I’m kind of looking forward to when Google just takes over the world. It’ll make my life a lot easier.

15 Responses to “Syncing Outlook with Google Calendar”

  1. Alan A June 6, 2007 at 8:42 pm #

    Tony; Great Blog, love your stuff. Our family got hooked on Cozi Central. It syncs with Outlook and lets each person in the family have their own calendar that can be linked to a master Family View. Mom and Dad can even hand off appointments to each other. Its kind of cool.

  2. dljordaneku June 6, 2007 at 9:37 pm #

    Tony,
    Which version of Outlook are you running? Outlook 2007 will sync with internet calendars including Google.
    Microsoft has instructions at
    http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA101674951033.aspx

    dj

  3. tony morgan June 6, 2007 at 9:45 pm #

    No, we haven’t upgraded to Outlook 2007 yet.

    tony

  4. emergingChris June 6, 2007 at 10:08 pm #

    Tony,

    I used gMigrate from Companionlink before I completely abandoned Outlook altogether. My wife still uses it. You can find it here:
    http://www.companionlink.com/products/gmigrate.html

  5. Dan Richardson June 6, 2007 at 10:28 pm #

    I’ve used airset (www.airset.com) and it worked great. It has a tool that will let you sync with outlook automatically. As far as I know, google calendar won’t let you do it

  6. Steven Gibbs June 6, 2007 at 11:10 pm #

    Tony, break down and do it. Get a Mac and use iCal!

  7. Steven June 7, 2007 at 8:04 am #

    Tony,
    I’m a Pastor in PA and used to sell and support contact management software. I use CompanionLink for Google Calendar. The latest version allows you to sync multiple Google Calendars with Outlook, Palm Desktop and many other devices. It wouldn’t surprise me if they also sync with the iPhone when it comes out.
    http://www.companionlink.com

  8. dljordaneku June 7, 2007 at 8:15 am #

    Well since you are not at Outlook 2007, I have used Remote Calendar in the past.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/remotecalendars/

    Can be a bit flaky at times, but over all is pretty good.

    dj

  9. J*rod June 7, 2007 at 9:08 am #

    Hey Tony,
    I know the IT guy at NewSpring and can probably talk him into getting you a license for Office ’07.

  10. Brad Ruggles June 7, 2007 at 9:51 am #

    I’ve been wanting to do the same thing so I’ll be watching to see what other people suggest. Like you, I’ve been repeatedly blow away but the number of amazing solutions and products that Google comes out with. Even if they were to come out with a line of Google bakeware I’d be the first in line to buy it – and I don’t even bake.

  11. Calgoo June 7, 2007 at 1:32 pm #

    Hi Tony,

    We have an extremely limited release (v0.39) of Calgoo that has the functionality you are looking for. Please contact us at info@calgoo.com and we can set you up with it.

    - Calgoo
    http://www.calgoo.com

  12. avclub June 7, 2007 at 2:29 pm #

    Tony, I made the call to go 100% google cal and don’t regret it. I use it to feed iCal, my iPod, my cell phone. It will even accept Outlook meeting requests. And I can access it anywhere. look up goosync if you’re wanting a way to sync it with your phone (not Verizon supported, however).

    The benefit of my wife knowing when I’m in a meeting or when I’m available… worth it.

    Did I mention Google cal can send you SMS meeting reminders? It can TXT you your daily schedule, each morning, at a certain time.

  13. Jason Powell June 7, 2007 at 8:33 pm #

    RE: Office 2007

    “To make changes to your Google calendar, you must use Google Calendar. Changes made in Outlook are not sent to your Google Calendar.”

  14. Fred McKinnon June 8, 2007 at 9:25 am #

    Tony,
    Like the other comment, I’m just amazed you’ve not gone “mac” .. yeah, I know .. we’re obnoxious.

    My Apple syncs iCal, Address Book, Mail, ToDo, etc., w/ my Palm Treo, and since I have the .mac account, it also syncs my desktop to my laptop, and our master church calendar is published on iCal as well – so everything is within about 5 minutes of being syncd ALL THE TIME, on EVERY COMPUTER.

    If I could just get a new BlueTooth enabled Mac in my studio, I’d go to BlueTooth hotsync on my Treo instead of USB, and would have my cell more “synced” more “often”.

    God bless!
    FRED

  15. dljordaneku June 12, 2007 at 8:38 am #

    Jason,
    You are right in that you can’t add to Google Calendar from Outlook but from what I read, that is not a concern. He is wanting his wife to be able to view his work calendar so one way would work. He updates his Google Calendar and she gets updates in Outlook.
    dj