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Teams calendar synchronization with google calendar
Hi ChrisHoardMVP ,
Thanks for your post. I have an additional question:
Our company is actually working on google (Calendar, Mail, etc.)
Due to Coronavirus we also activated microsoft teams.
First I'd like to let you know what my goal is:
We only want to use ONE calendar, where it is easily possible to create Microsoft Team Meetings (like in Microsoft Team Calendar).
As Outlook is the basis for Teams I have tried the connection from both sides:
- I shared my google calendar to Microsoft Outlook by using the link.
- And I shared my outlook to google same way round with the link.
The problems right now are:
- I see the imported google calendar in outlook, but not in teams
- I can't edit any google calendar entries in outlook and of course not in teams
- the calendar entries don't get updated on both sides (Google and outlook)
Do you have any recommendations in this case?
We just want to avoid that we have to create a calendar entry in Google and in Teams.
It would also be fine working with a chrome extension or something else. But I haven't found any solutions yet. Thanks for your help in advance.
Cheers from Vienna,
Angela.
I tried the same, export Google Calendar to Outlook. In Outlook I can see all my calendars, but Teams shows me just the main Outlook Calendar.
I understand the Teams Calendar Tool would be a "calendar choose to show" like Outlook.
Sorry about my Outlook is in portuguese, but you can see the calendar selection.
It's not enough for both side sync, but at least we could see Google Calendar in Teams like in Outlook.
Hello emerzuc !
Same problem here! E-mail and Calendar hosted @Gsuite trying to connect MS Teams.
I just got the MS Teams button in my Outlook but it is note synchronized with my Google Agenda.
I'm trying to send invitations to my team but it doesn't work. We chose MS Teams because we are a MS supplier and we need to use this solution.
I'm from Sao Paulo, Brazil and I was wondering if somebody could help me with this issue.
Hi,
I have been doing battle with this as well, we also use GSuite for email and Calendar, and now I've been asked to look at bolting on Teams without a full scale migration to Microsoft 365. The conclusion I have come to is that it just doesn't work nicely at all, it's almost as if Microsoft want you to use their platform only and Google want you to use their platform only...
The "best" setup I have managed to come up with so far is to:
- Set users up in GSuite as normal (e.g. mailto:joe@domain.com)
- Create the same user in M365 with a slightly different username / email address (e.g. mailto:joe_m365@domain.com)
- Create a Contact in M365 with the proper email address (mailto:joe@domain.com). It seems that any address sent from within M365 to a Contact does get routed properly and ends up in the Gmail inbox.
- Publish the users Outlook calendar and subscribe to this so you can see it in the Google Calendar.
This is still littered with downsides which in my opinion make it pretty much unworkable....
- When inviting internal users to a meeting created in Teams you have to make sure it is the Contact that is invited and not the user. There's your first support nightmare.
- Even if the Contact is invited what they will receive in their Gmail inbox is an email with an attach .ICS file, which of course the computer will want to open in Outlook
- You still can't see the Google Calendar in Teams
- You can't create a Teams meeting from Google Calendar (obviously)
To balance this post out though, if you just want to use Teams for meetings with external people (i.e. they are not on domain.com) then it seems to work a lot smoother as M365 doesn't just assume that the inbox / calendar are in Exchange.
So all-in-all my conclusion is that if you really want Teams to work smoothly then you're really going to have to bite the bullet and migrate to M365.
Cheers,
Mark
