User Rating3.53/5Many of us new Androids use Microsoft Outlook regularly for email without Exchange. Now that you have an Android phone (which requires you to have a Gmail account) you have a separate calendar in Gmail which your Android phone can easily sync with. This tutorial walks you through how to enable you to synchronize your Outlook calendar with Google calendar which will sync with your Android phone. This makes things very convenient and uniform when you can enter information in either and they all stay synchronized… and all for Free!
Note: to force the sync, simply “Right-Click” the Google Sync icon in your task tray (bottom right), click “Sync”.
Google Calendar Sync in Taskbar
Whether you enter calendar entries in Microsoft Outlook, Gmail or your Android phone, all places will be synced. For example, you add an entry on your Android phone, which will eventually sync with Gmail; later in the day you get back to your computer and open Outlook in which Google Calendar Sync will sync with Gmail.
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Can this be used to synchronize tasks?
@Tony unfortunately this cant sync Tasks, only Calendars. There is a software called “CompanionLink” that claims to sync Outlook Tasks, Contacts and Calendars to Android, but I never got it to work… so left it alone.
Also can’t sync to an alternative Google calendar, so you can’t use this to sync to a ‘work’ calendar separate from your default calendar.
Also note it doesn’t work with old versions of Outlook.
I was at the Sprint store the other day playing with the HTC Hero. I noticed on the calendars that there isn’t an option to “invite” other people to new appointments. Is this possible in any way?
What Google doesn’t tell you is that Google Calendar makes your outlook calendar public and this is a big no-no in a corporate setting.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9016920/Corporate_data_slips_out_via_Google_Calendar
Plus Google is known to sue companies whose employees install “free” software on corporate machines. So can we really trust them on Google Calendar? Not likely.
Bottom line: The Google Android outlook application should sync the calendar like it does email. I can’t believe some of what Google left out on Android G1. It’s enough to make me go back to blackberry or check into an iphone. It’s that bad.
@Mike Good article but this sync does not publish your calendar events to the Public unless you purposely set that as your default setting. Default is set to Private.
Hey, I got my Outlook calendar sync’d up to Google just fine but nothing seems to be happening on the Android phone. Do I just need to wait a while? Or do I need to use a specific calendar app or what?
Android 2.0 on Motorola Droid
Go to “Settings > Data synchronization” is Gmail checked as well as others?
As it turns out I had tried an app that turned of synchronization in order to save battery. I just re-enabled sync and it worked fine.
Thanks, that was all that was missing for me.
I’ve been fooling around with my new Droid HTC Eris all afternoon. Running Outlook 2003 (XP Pro) and finally downloaded an outside prg to sync Outlook with Google Calendars and it worked like a champ. NOW however, my HTC calendar won’t sync up with the Google Calendar. This is a real pain in the butt for a simple application that I NEED TO WORK. I checked to see if my ‘gmail’ was also checked for syncing and it wasn’t but I checked it now and still no sync’ing. Now where do I go? Need to download another pgm? I’m really not happy with my phone, Google or any of this. I may just go back to my ‘dumb’ phone and enter my calendar stuff there – At least it worked, gave me an alarm and I even got to enter tasks and set alarms to remind me. Any help would be appreciated.
Thank you for the tip I went to settings and found the calendar choice was still unchecked.
Peace out!
I have tried this but it completely skips recurring appointments… Any thoughts on this? Tips? Hints?
How are the recurring appointments created: on phone, online with Gmail Calendar, or in Outlook?
I have the same issue with recurring appointments, as well as non-recurring, if I was invited by someone else. They don’t sync with Google Calendar and therefore don’t sync with the Android Calendar. If I create the appointment, it works fine.
i use outlook for e-mail, calander, contact, and notes. i use to have a treo which verizon synced with by virtue of a program (called pc monitor) constantly running on my desktop. the sync worked great. i am trying to get same results now that i switched to a droid but can not find a way to get itto work. any idea would be appreciated. btw Companionlink doesnt do e-mail sync
We all have been struggling with an all-in-one solution to sync Outlook email, calendar and tasks with Gmail (hopefully Google addresses this problem).
In my setup, I’ve switched mostly to Google Apps for Email, Calendar and stopped using Tasks because there’s no easy way to sync them yet it is possible… see my tips in this app review http://www.androidtapp.com/astrid-task-todo-list/ how you can use Astrid plus Remember the Milk service which syncs with Google Tasks as a Lab addon.
i just downloaded a trial verison of this and it synced my contacts in 10 minutes. i will contact them in the morning and see if it will e-mail, notes, and calendar as well and post the response
http://www.sync2.com/Sync2Download.asp?usr_email=gsontag%40andilab%2Ecom&status=0&status_reason=Success
so how did go with syncing email, notes, and calender with the link you spoke about?
How do i get contacts in my Outlook to download to my Motorola Droid?
How do i sync Outlook contacts with my google contacts?
My Outlook syncs with our server, so that the calendars on my home computer and work computer are synced. I installed GCS on my work computer to keep my calendar current on my Droid, and it works – but not always. I have had to uninstall and reinstall on my work computer.
Question: I am thinking about having GCS on both home and work computers. Would that be a good way to make sure the calendar is covered or would I end up with duplicate appointments?
Why has Google decided that Android is not for serious buiness users? Many in business will not want to store confidential data on the Google cloud where you loose all control over your data. The phones will not talk to Outlook nor Notes. If the iPhone is a neat toy, Android is looking even more like a toy failing completely at even the most basic business tasks. Email client is all but worthless on the phone, VPN fails (Android 2.01). Web browser is nice and fast credit there. But lack of talking directly with Outlook renders Android a toy, not a business tool. I guess Google says for business tools call RIM or Microsoft for children’s toys Apple or Google. Based on my experience so far, Microsoft on the desktop has absolutely nothing to fear from Google, they just don’t get it or even understand why they don’t get it. Too bad as I was looking to weaken the tie a bit from MS. Everything does not belong on the cloud!
I agree that Android needs to do direct sync with Outlook. I’ve been a long-time WinMo user and Outlook user, and I’m just too accustomed to having my phone sync directly with my computer to change that. And I will not (and probably cannot) have my data in the cloud somewhere — I want it securely located on my computer and my phone, synchronized directly between the two. Until that works with the Android OS, Android phones are off the list for me.
Just my $0.02.