A while ago I used to run my own Exchange server for myself, my business, friends and family but after a while my spam levels kept increasing and my bandwidth was being consumed by garbage. Not only that I had people hassling me for support and trouble shooting a service I gave to them for free – this service became hard to maintain and I looked to outsource it all.
After a bit of a hunt around I went with Gmail – it was free, supports POP/IMAP/Web, had user documentation etc and as it was Google it was likely to be more stable than my $3k server sitting in a cupboard at home.
But to cut a long story short, I have now enabled calendar sharing between some of my Gmail domains and wanted to sync my Outlook calendar with my Gmail calendar. I end up by using this great little tool: Google Calendar Sync. It only supports Microsoft Outlook versions 2003 and 2007, and operating systems Windows XP and Windows Vista.
How long will I be using Windows instead of a Linux desktop? I am not sure but the time is getting closer…