Mike D. said on March 5, 2008 4:44 PM PDT:
Are there any plans right now for Google put out this for Apple's iCal, or is Spanningsync the only option.
This is almost great news. I've recently been trying to figure out how to sync my multiple google calendars with my new iPhone. Dunno what that's like on a mac, but as a windows user I'm struggling to find a decent solution for synching outlook and gcal. Hope they add multiple calendar support to this soon...
Google Calendar has
an API, so developers can write synchronization tools for all kinds of applications and devices. There are many third-party solutions and some of them are free:
syncmycal.com, oggsync.com - Outlook, Outlook Mobile
goosync.com - mobile phones
spanningsync.com - Apple iCal
gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net - free, cross-platform (Mozilla Sunbird/Lightning, Rainlendar, Evolution, Apple iCal)
said on March 5, 2008 5:20 PM PDT:
any idea if this requires admin rights on PC to install? I have macs at home but XP at office. I would love to sync google calendar with outlook and access my appointments on my iPhone.
Yes, it requires admin privileges.
said on March 5, 2008 5:30 PM PDT:
OggSync is another syncing program, and it supports syncing multiple Google Calendars. I have been using it with my Windows Mobile phone for a year....
syncmycal - tried it, but the way it syncs doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever with mulitple calendars, I either got the same event multiple times or nuclear whitewash.
Goosync currently (well, I checked yesterday so it may have changed ;) uses Funambol to sync with Outlook. That only syncs one calendar AFAICT.
oggsync I'd not come across - will take a look.
Amusingly I can sync multiple calendars with my lightning calendars in thunderbird very nicely with gcal via the gcal provider plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/sunbird/addon/4631
so a lightning/sunbird to outlook sync that supports multiple calendars might do the trick. If one exists, I've not found it.
In the short term, I'm currently resigned to living with just my main calendar on my iPhone and see how I get on with that.
Derek said on March 5, 2008 6:14 PM PDT:
Hmm,
This is good, but I've just spent the last 4 months moving to linux... Any idea when something like this is going to be provided for Evolution?
Derek
Mike said on March 5, 2008 7:35 PM PDT:
What about trusty Palm OS?
Yogendra said on March 5, 2008 8:23 PM PDT:
I tried it immediately (and failed)!!
Its giving a simple and understandable error... "Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar" Is it to do with Proxy?? not sure, if someone knows how to get it working in a proxy env... will love to know about it.
~Yogendra
Ajit said on March 5, 2008 11:13 PM PDT:
Dear All,
I have Test it, i found 1 Bug.
Whenever you add your calendar into MS Outlook 2007 and sync into Google Calendar, Reminder is set as Pop - 15 Minuets. My Default Reminder already set as Email - 10 Min. and SMS - 10 MIN. so you have change reminder manual in every event which you added into MS Outlook.
Ajit Mogra
James said on March 6, 2008 1:33 AM PDT:
Remember you can get this functionality from Plaxo that will also sync you Mac
Simon said on March 6, 2008 1:48 AM PDT:
I'm having some trouble with syncing Outlook 2003 and my main calendar in Google Apps. The install was very smooth and I get no error messages when the sync is attempted. It takes around 20 seconds to load Google Calendar events, but when attempting to sync to Outlook it quits. When this happens it also closes Outlook. Still, early days...
Dav7 said on March 6, 2008 2:34 AM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar.
:(
Dav7 said on March 6, 2008 2:34 AM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar.
:(
said on March 6, 2008 3:06 AM PDT:
next version of evolution is told to have google calendar syncinc natively
said on March 6, 2008 3:58 AM PDT:
I've been using Plaxo transparently.
Now I can remove it completely. :)
said on March 6, 2008 4:05 AM PDT:
I still think Plaxo is the best. I've been using it for a couple months and it seemlessly syncs between my several computers (outlook), GMAIL, etc..
Big downside is you have to pay for the option to remove duplicates.
Will the synchronization continue syncing after the PC is shutdown? If so Great!
said on March 6, 2008 6:14 AM PDT:
Can't be installed on Windows 2003 Server, WTF ?
Li, Rui said on March 6, 2008 6:57 AM PDT:
Thanks!
Any plan to develop something for Linux User?
Looking for a Mac and iPhone version.
said on March 6, 2008 12:02 PM PDT:
Can't wait also for a Salesforce.com version of this...
Jake said on March 6, 2008 12:16 PM PDT:
I've been looking for something like this for quite a while and everytime I look I end up disappointed. For a while I tried to use http://remotecalendars.sourceforge.net/ but it never seemed to work quite right.
I really like the idea of this, but as of right now it's really light on options. For example, it'd be nice to be able to tag things coming in from the Google calendar into a "GoogleCal" type category... it'd also be nice if I could choose to do two-way sync of only certain categories (or all but certain ones). I'd also like the ability to use more than just the primary calendar (my wife and I have a shared calendar that most of my events go to).
But, I'm really happy it works for Apps accounts :).
智恆 said on March 7, 2008 11:57 PM PDT:
Good, I like it!
as all know, lots of people have ppc. So we must use Microsoft Outlook but we also like google calendar!
智恆 said on March 8, 2008 12:02 AM PDT:
but it will better if the api can sync the colour and Categories from Outlook
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.
said on March 9, 2008 1:30 PM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar.
:(
Dav7 said on March 9, 2008 1:55 PM PDT:
mee to :(
admin said on March 9, 2008 1:59 PM PDT:
For Windows XP SP3 users:
http://www.intelliadmin.com/Daylight%20Saving%20Fix%20Download.asp
This will help you to get rid of the error: You seem to have outdated timezone information. Please Run Windows Update.
Great new tool!! Love it!!
One little issue I have:
Two PCs:
1 laptop with Outlook 2007.
1 desktop with Outlook 2007.
Was previously using SyncMyCal - Free version.
Laptop is syncing to primary google calendar.
Desktop is syncing to "secondary" work calendar that was used by SyncMyCal... What's up with that?
Can't get them to sync to the same calendar...
?? Help ??
if you have issues with time zone information anyone, go here...
www.intelliadmin.com -- Download Network Administrator 2.7 Trial.
Then once it's started, on step 1, keep the same option that's
listed. then under step 2 select include local system. that's it,
then click submit and then voila! google calendar sync works! it will
fix the time zone problem!!!
Martin said on March 12, 2008 4:07 AM PDT:
Google Calendar sync to Outlook - great news!
My problem though is that it syncs and then closes Outlook automatically!
Bit of a problem given I'm syncing my personal Google calendar to my Work Outlook so that my Work Outlook can sync to my mobile phone.... and when I fail to notice Outlook has closed I wonder why I don't get any emails (oh, wait, is that a problem really?!?)
So, off I trot to the Google page that links to 'known issues' .. to discover the automatic shut down is not a known issue and I get the helpful suggestion to 'troubleshoot' which then takes me to numerous help options (none of which apply) and no way to report the 'fault'.
Anyone got any ideas how I tell Google their sync don't work correctly?!?
Bill N said on March 13, 2008 6:41 AM PDT:
This is great news, or it would be if it would work with Outlook 2002 Nowhere in the Google information, or the reviews, does it say that this requires Outlook 2003 or higher. You only get told during installation. Anyone have a work around?
said on March 14, 2008 4:49 PM PDT:
I tried it with Outlook 2002 and it works!
said on March 15, 2008 4:28 AM PDT:
I iried it with Outlook 2002 and it didn't work.
Kevin
said on March 15, 2008 6:08 PM PDT:
Try gSyncit. It has plenty of options and works well.
said on March 23, 2008 8:17 PM PDT:
You can get this to work with Server 2003. Before you execute the installer, right click on the installer, and choose properties. Then click on compatibility and choose Windows XP. Worked for me with Outlook 2007 and server 2003.
Ian said on March 24, 2008 9:07 PM PDT:
ScheduleWorld allows syncs between many device/apps, including gCal.
said on March 27, 2008 11:41 AM PDT:
It is really distressing that this program does not work with Outlook 2002. Bruno
said on March 27, 2008 9:02 PM PDT:
Does Google Calendar Sync work with Outlook Mobile on a WM5 or 6 device? These 2 apps only, no Outlook on a PC. Just Google and my device.
LVWolfman said on April 4, 2008 12:38 PM PDT:
I repeatedly get the outdated time zone error yet have installed ALL the MS patches and updates for it.
When I do the intelliAdmin one, it shows the reason I think.
"Not updating Atlantic Standard Time because it does not exist on this system."
Repeat 17 more times with various time zones like Sri Lanka.
Running Windows XP Mediacenter 2005.
said on April 4, 2008 6:05 PM PDT:
I also get the Outlook shutdown problem! I'm using Outlook 2003, and when it starts syncing, Outlook suddenly shuts down no matter what I am doing in the program. Anyone have any advice????
Mick said on April 5, 2008 2:51 AM PDT:
Shame about only Outlook 2003 & 2007. Rather than keep paying MS to upgrade I'm happy at a relatively stable 2000!
I've got it to work with Lightning but it'd be neat to join the three up!
Google released an update for Calendar Sync: 0.9.3.2. The latest release fixes the following issues:
- Some users experience Outlook crashing when syncing.
- Events end up in Outlook's "Deleted items" folder.
- Events not syncing from Outlook to Google Calendar when the email address used for Outlook isn't the same as your Google Account email address.
- Issues with third-party sync applications and Google Calendar (duplicate events, deleted data, etc.). You should no longer experience problems if you have third-party sync apps installed so long as they aren't syncing between Outlook and Google Calendar. For example, it's OK to sync Google Calendar with Lightning calendar. However, it's *not* OK to sync Outlook to Google Calendar using a third-party app while also using Google Calendar Sync.
You should automatically receive the update, but you can also download it from:
http://dl.google.com/googlecalendarsync/GoogleCalendarSync_Installer.exe.
said on April 9, 2008 4:12 PM PDT:
Sorry, google sync does not work for me. I changed to iCal4OL (Google it) ... and found something that works the way it should.
said on April 15, 2008 6:22 AM PDT:
Anyone try scheduleworld? It seems like a cool concept and it worked for me.
said on April 16, 2008 11:01 PM PDT:
Shame there is no Windows 2000 support... Otherwise it does sound promising
Jim said on April 21, 2008 7:54 AM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync 0.9.3.2 produces this nasty error:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar, error code %d
Downgrading from beta version 0.9.3.2 back to beta version 0.9.3.0 worked for me!
So here is a public download link for the older version of Google Calendar Sync 0.9.3.0.
The web page is french, but the software download is english v0930, so if you go to the webpage:
http://www.clubic.com/lancer-le-telechargement-234190-0-google-calendar-sync.html
And click on the "Relancer le téléchargement" link to download.
Exit Outlook. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to make sure the OUTLOOK.EXE process is not running.
Install the 0930 version. Select 2 way sync.
Jim said on April 21, 2008 7:55 AM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync 0.9.3.2 produces this nasty error:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar, error code %d
Downgrading from beta version 0.9.3.2 back to beta version 0.9.3.0 worked for me!
So here is a public download link for the older version of Google Calendar Sync 0.9.3.0.
The web page is french, but the software download is english v0930, so if you go to the webpage:
http://www.clubic.com/lancer-le-telechargement-234190-0-google-calendar-sync.html
And click on the "Relancer le téléchargement" link to download.
Exit Outlook. Press CTRL-ALT-DEL to make sure the OUTLOOK.EXE process is not running.
Install the 0930 version. Select 2 way sync.
BékiPeti said on April 22, 2008 11:36 PM PDT:
My company branch is using Windows 2000 on desktop PCs and laptops and that is the only place I have Outlook installed. It would be great to have a Win2k compatible version.
said on April 24, 2008 5:00 PM PDT:
pretty good it syncs outlook then I just sync outlook and my mobile phone via active sync. if you get the time zone error the fix is mentioned above but here goes the link
http://www.intelliadmin.com/Daylight%20Saving%20Fix%20Download.asp
scroll down to freeware downloads and select the saving time fix.
later.
said on April 25, 2008 10:11 AM PDT:
Hello, for outlook 2003 go to help->about->disabled items and there enable google calendar sync, and that´s all
said on April 28, 2008 12:48 PM PDT:
I recently started getting an error on MS outlook as Google Calander was attempting a sync, Outlook crashed and restarted fine, but I can no longer sync without the problem
Chris said on May 6, 2008 5:21 AM PDT:
Google Calendar Sync 0.9.3.2 produces this nasty error:
Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar, error code %d
Downgrading from beta version 0.9.3.2 back to beta version 0.9.3.0 worked for me for 3 days!
After 3 days I keep getting the error: "Error syncing your calendar". Please note the error code is no longer here.
Please help.
I've been experiencing the "Google Calendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar, error code %d" error as well.
I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling without any success.
However, it appears that Google is already aware of this issue and working on a resolution:
http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs
Jamal
said on May 9, 2008 2:37 PM PDT:
Error Message says "Google caleendar Sync: Error syncing your calendar. Error Codes; 1011, -2147352567." Tried uninstalling and re-installing. Same message. Help please?
