First:   https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gssmo/

Second:  "Oh and I can't ask Corp IT b/c they don't want anyone using
Outlook just all the GSuite stuff over the web and so I'm not getting any
help there sadly..."  I honestly can't in good conscious recommend that you
break company policy by using outlook.

On Fri, Dec 13, 2019 at 12:43 PM Bino Gopal <binogo...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> So my new work uses GSuite instead of Exchange for work emails...shocking
> to me but I guess the move to the Cloud is really real...!
>
> The problem is that I've lived and breathed Outlook for the last 20 years
> for email and I pretty much have all the workflows I need in it down (rules
> of all kinds, etc, etc).  I also have a Hotmail/Outlook.com account for my
> personal email and that also works great in Outlook and so I'm used to
> doing all my email/contacts/calendar etc in one place.  This setup also
> synced great to my iPhone and I was happy with it.
>
> The problem I'm having now is that I'm not sure how best to set things up
> in Outlook with the new Gmail account for work...any general suggestions
> would be welcome (like which account I should set up as the default one on
> my phone or in Outlook-my work account or Hotmail?), etc.
>
> More specifically, one BIG problem I'm having is that when I added my work
> Gmail account to Outlook 2019 it sync'ed my email and that mostly works
> fine-BUT I do NOT have a calendar of any kind showing up at all on the
> Gmail account in Outlook 2019...which is really weird to me (no Contacts
> either btw).  But when I get invites sent to my work email I can accept
> them and then they are added to the Calendar showing up in my Hotmail
> account (which is where I put my personal appts) and made my default once I
> left the old job (yeah no longer with Citrix/NetScaler after 19 years!)
>
> But when I log into the Gmail calendar on the web those items are
> definitely not sync'd with the items on my Hotmail calendar (like when I
> accept the invite through Outlook 2019 it's just adding it to that Calendar
> showing in Outlook and doing nothing with the Gmail calendar)-so I'd have
> to manage two calendars which I'd like to avoid...
>
> I've also noticed that certain items are not showing up in the Outlook
> calendar that are on my Gmail calendar and I'm not sure why as I've
> accepted all the invites I could find so that's worrying me too...
>
> Anyway obviously I've mostly got questions right now about the Gmail
> calendar and basically why I don't have it showing up in Outlook and how I
> can get the Gmail calendar sync to what's showing on my Hotmail calendar so
> I don't have to manage two separate calendars...
>
> Thoughts?  Any help would be REALLY appreciated.  Oh and I can't ask Corp
> IT b/c they don't want anyone using Outlook just all the GSuite stuff over
> the web and so I'm not getting any help there sadly...
>
>
>           BINO
>
>

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