Outlook sync with Google Calendar

[gaf-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On 08/25/2010 10:13 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
>> From: discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org [mailto:discuss-bounces-mNDKBlG2WHs at public.gmane.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jerry Feldman
>>
>> AFAIK, Outlook Sync is for exchange servers.
>>    =20
> What the ...  ???
>
> No.  You install Google Apps Sync for Outlook onto a computer that has
> Outlook.  And then you enter your google apps username & password.  And=
 then
> all your google mail, contacts, calendar get synced to Outlook, as if y=
ou
> were connecting to an exchange server.  Although it's not as fully feat=
ured
> or reliable as an *actual* exchange server, it is certainly featured-en=
ough
> and reliable-enough to use it on a daily basis for all your email etc. =
 It's
> just what you do if you are stuck using google apps and wish you had
> exchange.  (That's me.)
>
>
>  =20
That is why I use gSyncit. I found that Google Sync requires active
sync, and I was not able to get it installed on my system at work, but
gSyncit works well.

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