You can set up your Outlook Express to receive messages from internet email accounts such as Hotmail. Outlook Express’s editing capabilities may not be as sophisticated as those found in other packages on the market, but it more than adequately performs the basic functions and more. You can use the stationary to jazz up your messages and add a personalised signature to them too. Its simplicity makes it the ideal package for people who want to communicate quickly and effectively by email. It isn’t in practice.Ĭonclusion: Your best bet? We recommend that you choose an ecosystem and stick with it.Microsoft Outlook Express is a user-friendly email program that anyone can master with ease. Yet you’d think data compatibility for calendars, contacts, and tasks would be a universally solved problem.
People who use G Suite can install GASMO to use Outlook as a “front-end” to G Suite. But it’s surprising that seemingly simple tasks-like Tasks!-can’t sync or export easily. On one level, the technology we have access to is amazing. But once you have the file, there’s no simple way to import your data into other task management programs.
To move Google Tasks to Outlook you type… as in, re-type your tasks. The process works a bit differently if you use, but the concept is similar. The best you can do is to export your contacts, then import them into Outlook.
But again, unless you use a full G Suite account, Outlook and GASMO, no sync takes places. You can import contact information into Outlook from Google Contacts. (See Microsoft’s instructions for a step-by-step walkthrough.) To connect your Calendar, locate your Google Calendar iCal link, then subscribe to that link in Outlook. You’ll need to add or modify events on the web or in a Google Calendar mobile app. Outlook can be set to view your Google Calendar data, but changes made in Outlook won’t sync. Outlook and Google can’t sync data this way. CalDav and CardDav establish ways to access scheduling and contact information, but both the service provider and client need to support the standards. It’s not because standard formats for these don’t exist. The rest of your data-your calendar, contacts, tasks, and notes-won’t sync as well as email. For example, send an email from an Outlook-connected Gmail account, and the email will display in “Sent mail” when you view Gmail on the web. To access Gmail in Outlook, first enable IMAP access to your email in Google (here’s how: G Suite or Gmail), then add your Gmail account as an additional account (in either Outlook or ). Both Microsoft and Google support email access with IMAP, an email standard first devised in the 1980s. Microsoft Outlook and Standard Google accountsĮmail sync between Outlook and Gmail is available to all accounts, paid and free.
Individuals can use GSSMO, too, but you’ll need to upgrade to a paid G Suites account to do so.
G Suite Sync for Microsoft Outlook (or, GSSMO) allows an organization to let people continue to use Microsoft Outlook on Windows desktops, but connect with data in G Suite instead of Microsoft Exchange. Microsoft Outlook paired with G Suite makes sync possible, but only for Google Apps customers. IT team looking to protect Gmail or Microsoft Exchange emails? Back them up with Backupify. But if you want to sync between the Microsoft and Google ecosystems, your options get limited. Use Microsoft Outlook with Office365 (or Exchange)? Or Google Calendar with Google Apps? Everything works.
More accurately, sync works-as long as you stay within an ecosystem. When it comes to G Suite syncing with Microsoft Outlook, the issues are not quite solved. While technology can be impressive (cars driving themselves, private spacecraft shuttles supplying the international space station, apps that can pretty much run your life), it’s amazing we still struggle with syncing two email systems.