Sync google calendar and contacts with Outlook 10

Question

I use a google accounts for mail/contacts/calendar. I use Outlook 2010 on my desktop and an iphone. Iphone syncs calendar/contacts/mail via what I presume is faux exchange mechanism, anyway it works.

Mail obviously works in Outlook using IMAP. I used to get calendar sync using google calendar sync - however this does not support Outlook 2010. Given this is something Google have been alerted to since 2009 - I presume they have no plans to fix it.

Is there a solution here? Can I make Outlook 2010 sync in a similair way to how my iphone works (using m.gmail.com ?). Any other ideas?

Thanks!

Solution

Use gSyncit instead. It costs $15.

However, it:

• supports Outook 2003, 2007, 2010
• Can sync to Multiple Google accounts (including Google Apps for domain accounts)
• Can sync not only contacts, but also calendar, tasks etc.
• Is actively supported by the developer, unlike Google Calendar Sync (which is suffering from bit-rot)

I used to be a Google Calendar Sync user myself, until about a year back, when I got tired of the buggy software and switched to gSyncit instead.

Comments

[Chris Padfield]

This is useful (although I can't seem to get it to work) but the problem is it's only 1 way - outlook consuming the web service as opposed to a 2 way sync. blog.sublogic.com/2010/03/08/… would have been perfect, but it seems this does not work with 64bit Outlook - which is why I presume Google have gone back to the drawing board on their the sync system.

[Joel Mansford]

I also use gSyncit, main point is that it supports Outlook 2010 x64 for which I don't think there's any alternative solution