Google Apps Adds Outlook Sync
June 10, 2009
Released just yesterday, Google has added another weapon to it’s Microsoft-killing arsenal: Full, 2-way sync with Microsoft Outlook.
Now users of Google Apps’ Premier Edition can sync with Outlook. That’s Email, Calendar and Contacts. (And starred items automatically are added as tasks [at least in 2007.]) And even more powerful, it acts as an import agent to pull your existing email, contacts and calendar items out of your Exchange account and into your new Google account.
So what does that mean for us, the Central Desktop Power Users? It means that the Central Desktop Outlook Plugin is now available to Google Apps users.
CD calendar and Google Calendar should stay in sync, which is a huge request in Central Desktop’s Forums. This will also mean free/busy access by extranet clients outside of your domain.
Starred emails will now appear as tasks in Central Desktop.
And emails can easily be pushed up to a Central Desktop file or attached to a database record.
I have already tried syncing a google account with Outlook and so far, so good. I’ll see how the CD Outlook Plugin works, and give a more detailed report.
In the meantime, check out the plugin’s intro video:
I think this could be a huge step forward, for both Google and Central Desktop.
