I’m not really a calendar freak but I used to track my activities through Google calendar. I’ve restarted using outlook as my mail client during office hours after 1 year gap. For me Google accounts is basically a tool manage mail, tasks, documents, favorites(using toolbar), mail personal information, webhistory, notes etc… Syncing my most used personal information is an important task. That may be one reason I’m really addicted to the services offered through Google.

I was actually searching some means to sync my Google Calendar and outlook. I’ve found some open source projects in Sourceforge.net but I had faced some issues with installing it.

Google Calendar Sync is a nice way to put the things in place. In Google Sync Release post, Shirin Oskooi, Product Manager, Google Calendar says

This was my life for a whole year before we started working on Google Calendar Sync, a 2-way synching application between Google Calendar and the calendar in Microsoft Outlook. I was probably the most excited person on the team when we started developing it, because now I can access my calendar at home or on my laptop, on Google Calendar or in Outlook. When I add an event to the Outlook calendar on my laptop, Google Calendar Sync syncs it to my Google Calendar — and since I also have Google Calendar Sync running on my desktop, the event then syncs from Google Calendar to Outlook calendar on my desktop. All of my calendar views are always up to date, and I can choose whichever one I want to use.

It simply synchronize my Google Calendar with Outlook very easily. No hectic procedures, you can simply install and give your authentication details to get connected with Google Calendar.

Different modes of synchronization (2 way and 1 way) is available between outlook and Google Calendar. Moreover it’s latest version even compatible with Outlook 2007.

Error In Windows XP: When I installed this software with Windows XP (yet to try with Vista) and on the first run I got an error message like “You seem to have outdated time zone information. Please run Windows Windows Update”. On a quick search, I found some solutions in Google Groups. In case of above specified error, you will have to install Microsoft Update KB942763 to update revised DST laws.

Enhance your Google Calendar Experience with outlook Google Calendar Sync.