Subj : One of the biggest Outlook and Google Calendar pain points is fin
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Fri Aug 25 2023 12:45:03

One of the biggest Outlook and Google Calendar pain points is finally being 
fixed

Date:
Fri, 25 Aug 2023 11:34:48 +0000

Description:
Outlook users can soon be shown as organizers in Google Calendar.

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Your workplace meetings should soon be a lot easier to manage thanks to a new 
Google Workspace update that brings Outlook users in from the cold. 

The office software platform has announced a tweak that will help Outlook 
work more seamlessly with Google's calendar app , with meeting organizers 
from the latter now actually appearing in Google Calendar meeting events. 

As the company notes in an update blog post , if a Microsoft Outlook user 
previously invited a Google Calendar user to a meeting event, the Outlook 
users display name would not appear at all in the list of meeting attendees 
on Google Calendar - but this is all about to change at last. Better together 

Now, thanks to the new Google Workspace update, any Outlook user who 
organizes a meeting will now actually be listed amongst the other meeting 
attendees in Calendar as the meeting organizer. 

The change, which is rolling out now and doesn't require any action on behalf 
of the user, will affect all Google Workspace customers and users with 
personal Google Accounts. 

It's such a simple function that we're amazed Google and Microsoft haven't 
made this work before, and no doubt it will be a huge boost to users 
everywhere. The two platforms had previously announced how Outlook and Google 
Calendar would look to work closer together, with a May 2023 update allowing 
better interoperability, namely by allowing users in both systems to share 
their availability status , so everyone can view each others' schedules. 

The news is the second significant recent boost for Outlook users looking for 
a better way to sync their calendars with collaboration services, after 
Microsoft Teams also revealed a new tweak that should make syncing your 
Outlook email calendar with Teams much more straightforward. 

With the update, Microsoft says that any changes you make to your calendar in 
Outlook will be reflected in your Teams calendar in real-time, and 
vice-versa, ideally spelling an end to any embarrassing mix-ups. More from 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/pro/software-services/one-of-the-biggest-outlook-and
-google-calendar-pain-points-is-finally-being-fixed


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