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Problems using Outlook, Gmail and Google Calendar
For a while now, when I have taken Teams meeting invites to my Microsoft Gmail account via Outlook, when I accept them it deletes the email and I lose the Teams link.
I have now diagnosed that my Outlook is set up so that my largely defunct Hotmail account is the "primary" account, and all Outlook calendar events that are created get created on the Hotmail calendar. Apparently because I got the Hotmail from Microsoft. I never use my Hotmail account.
How do I get this set up so that these invites will create a Calendar event to my Gmail account's calendar, and hopefully sync them with my Google Calendar on my phone, because that's generally where I take Teams meetings from?
I apologize if this is the wrong forum.
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Use Google Calendar as your primary calendar rather than the Hotmail calendar in Outlook.
In Google Calendar, open Settings > General > Automatically add invitations to my calendar and select one of the Yes options. Accept Teams invitations from Gmail or Google Calendar, and they should remain available in Google Calendar and sync to your phone. If you use Outlook, ensure Gmail is added as a Google account with calendar access, not as an email-only IMAP account. Changing the primary Microsoft/Hotmail account will not merge the separate Hotmail and Google calendars.
Gmail set up in Outlook Classic doesn't have a native synching with the Gmail calendar, so you need to set up a 3rd party app like Gsyncit or one of the other online programs. If you set it up right, it should sync your Outlook calendar to your Gmail calendar. Then on your phone, set up Gmail to be the default calendar and that should work. If you are a business owner, moving everything to a Business 365 account is the best idea and get rid of Gmail all together from the invites.
