Outlook Calendar changes not showing up in Google Calendar

Anonymous
2022-09-16T16:35:33+00:00

Hello there!

I have Outlook email and Calendar (and I'm not sure what else) through work. I shared my main Outlook Calendar to my personal Google Calendar account by importing the Outlook .ICS URL (found in Outlook.com > Settings > Calendar > Shared Calendars) into GC. All events show up usually, but this past week I haven't seen event changes showing up in GC, even more than 24 hours after the changed event passed. I can't find any way to manually force a sync/update.

What can be done to ensure event changes to my Outlook Calendar show up in my Google Calendar? This is important for me because I have a long-established system of meeting reminders based around my Google Calendar, and whether OC supports that setup or not it would be too much work to redo it all for this 1 calendar.

Thanks in advance,

Grant

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  1. Anonymous
    2023-04-10T22:58:49+00:00

    This is my conclusion.

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  2. Anonymous
    2023-04-10T21:08:10+00:00

    is it (real time sync) still not solved without 3rd party app or scripts?

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  3. Anonymous
    2023-04-08T11:09:13+00:00

    The answer from Google was sorry, wait for upgrades....

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    ....... we ask for your patience, as our developers are putting their backs on fixing our product's issues.

    We may not be able to receive any direct response from them, rest assured as once this feature will be

    added very soon, you will notice the changes right away.

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  4. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T18:45:21+00:00

    Thanks for making this clearer for people - that script has been a great thing for me but I didn't have time to write it up earlier for the less technical among us. To anyone having trouble with the GAS-IAS-Sync script, please try Aceman57's instructions that I'm replying to.

    You're welcome. My initial "struggle" with it having never written a Google script before (although I've done plenty of Vb scripts) I did not understand that creating a copy of the script placed it in my Google Drive. Once I understood that then it made perfect sense. The other "struggle" is I didn't know it actually created a calendar. I thought I had to create one and then use that name in the Google Script. I must have tried it 20 times not realizing that it actually was working but never noticed it had created it's own calendar, LOL. And that's why I made it CLEAR to use a unique name so you were sure it worked because you'd see that calendar created. Also most people are "visual" so I thought it would help showing screen shots of what they should see.

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  5. Anonymous
    2023-04-06T18:36:16+00:00

    I don't see how the script could interface with the Outlook desktop app. The script updates the ICS which syncs with the web app. Recall that to get the link to the ICS you need to go to the web app to do that--you can't get it from the desktop app. I'm not a script expert but I don't believe the script "syncs" in the sense it forces a sync. My understanding of it is, it continues to "re-apply" the Outlook ICS link. It's the same as you copying the link every "X" minutes. That's why it works because it doesn't rely on the actual syncing process between Outlook and Google since that's the problem in the first place.

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