Microsoft Invites Mac Users to Preview Google Calendar Support in Outlook 2016

[Marx55]

Bring YEAR calendar.

 

[wingkchan]

I turned on Office insider fast on an outlook 2016 on Mac, and i do not see the Google calendars and contact still there. Does anyone have this problem as well?

 

[H2SO4]

I thought this was under Settings>Calendar>Sync>All of them? Or does it only go one year back with this selected?

Sorry, I didn’t even see this. You can have events that are over a year old of course but if you try and search for something more than a year old it will yield no results in the iOS version.
It works in the Mac version. That’s why I threw iCal in the bin, (I use Fantastical on both platforms now).

 

[rhett7660]

Sorry, I didn’t even see this. You can have events that are over a year old of course but if you try and search for something more than a year old it will yield no results in the iOS version.
It works in the Mac version. That’s why I threw iCal in the bin, (I use Fantastical on both platforms now).

Ahhhhhhhhh.... I will have to try that to as I have never noticed it wouldn't yield any results. Interesting.

 

[campyguy]

I turned on Office insider fast on an outlook 2016 on Mac, and i do not see the Google calendars and contact still there. Does anyone have this problem as well?

Signing up is the first step, followed by updating to the relevant version - 15.36. Sign up, reboot, run the Microsoft AutoUpdate app, and see if you get the latest version offered as a download.

Signing up is not necessarily an automatic path to the Fast Ring, and MS's updates on the Fast Ring are not pushed simultaneously - read their TOS, it's in there. You may get updates pushed first, or last…

FWIW, I have Outlook synched to my "junk" Gmail account, and it works pretty much perfectly (labels, contacts, calendar). Not impressed enough to start using Gmail for anything important, tho'.

 

[wingkchan]

Signing up is the first step, followed by updating to the relevant version - 15.36. Sign up, reboot, run the Microsoft AutoUpdate app, and see if you get the latest version offered as a download.

Signing up is not necessarily an automatic path to the Fast Ring, and MS's updates on the Fast Ring are not pushed simultaneously - read their TOS, it's in there. You may get updates pushed first, or last…

FWIW, I have Outlook synched to my "junk" Gmail account, and it works pretty much perfectly (labels, contacts, calendar). Not impressed enough to start using Gmail for anything important, tho'.

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Thanks Campguy for sharing your input. I was able to set it up on outlook 2016 for Mac (licensed). However, it synced the calendar and contacts on the initial sync. It doesn't seem to update afterward on the changes I made. i then read this article that it requires Office365 subscription.

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...e85-9d1d-0c6f32f8e981?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

I am a bit confused as to how it works by syncing with microsoft cloud. Do i need to have Exchange Online service with microsoft? or does it simply mean i need an office 365 software subscription for outlook?

thank you

 

[chucker23n1]

I am a bit confused as to how it works by syncing with microsoft cloud. Do i need to have Exchange Online service with microsoft? or does it simply mean i need an office 365 software subscription for outlook?

thank you

From that FAQ, emphasis mine:

Select Outlook 2016 for Mac users who are part of the Insider Fast program and have an Office 365 subscription will be the first to try this new feature. It will be rolled out to all users worldwide later this year.

 

[campyguy]

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Thanks Campguy for sharing your input. I was able to set it up on outlook 2016 for Mac (licensed). However, it synced the calendar and contacts on the initial sync. It doesn't seem to update afterward on the changes I made. i then read this article that it requires Office365 subscription.

https://support.office.com/en-us/ar...e85-9d1d-0c6f32f8e981?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US

I am a bit confused as to how it works by syncing with microsoft cloud. Do i need to have Exchange Online service with microsoft? or does it simply mean i need an office 365 software subscription for outlook?

thank you

wingkchan, you answered your own questions via that link! Do take the time to read it - a free Outlook.com account will suffice. Outlook.com (Outlook Cloud Services) provides an "engine" to facilitate this - I use an Outlook Cloud Services email address for my Windows 10 install, and it works just fine with that Outlook.com account and a Gmail account in Outlook 2016.

No, I don't have my Gmail account referenced in my Outlook.com account. Yes, I do have both my Outlook.com account and my Gmail account referenced in Outlook 2016 - MS wants to facilitate synchronizing your Google account to the Microsoft Cloud, that's all.