Sync without the Outlook client!

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Since Microsoft have started rolling out the New Outlook client, I have been developing a version of OGCS that does not depend on any Outlook client at all. Instead OGCS will connect to your Outlook calendar in much the same way as it does for Google (using OAuth) and authorising OGCS to manage your calendar.

⚠️ Disclaimer

Bleeding edge development builds will be posted here. This means:-

• Bad Things might happen. Only try these builds if you are OK with that.
• Many features are not yet implemented. See Project KanBan for details.

🗣️ Feedback Welcome!

Bare in mind changes will (hopefully!) be frequent, and I may already be resolving an issue you've encountered.

There are two channels - check the project Kanban board for an item that matches your topic:
   💬 Start a Discussion for anything up to the In Progress column, as the feature is in its infancy
   🐞 Report an Issue from UAT onwards, as the feature should be more stable

For anything else, or just not sure, kick things off with a Discussion! 🚀

🚧 Setup Recommendations

• Create a new Outlook calendar for OGCS to sync with.
• Unzip the development build to a new directory and have it use a new settings and log file:

mkdir c:\temp\OGCS-dev
cd c:\temp\OGCS-dev

Unzip the development build into the new directory

call OutlookGoogleCalendarSync /t:"Development Build" /s:.\settings.xml /l:.\OGcalsync.log

📦 Development Builds

First, download and extract v3.0.0.1 and then apply later versions as a hotfix.

Version	Type	Release Date	Notes
3.0.0.9	Hotfix	01-Dec-2024	O->G: Create simple recurring series Merged in v2.11.1
3.0.0.7	Hotfix	26-Oct-2024	Scope consent fix
3.0.0.6	Hotfix	03-Aug-2024	Start, end & time zone improvements
3.0.0.5	Hotfix	22-Jul-2024	Reclaim items, extirpate properties
3.0.0.4	Hotfix	20-Jul-2024	O->G: Update existing single instance items Merged in v2.10.6
3.0.0.3	Hotfix	04-Jul-2024	O->G: Create & delete single instance items
3.0.0.2	Hotfix	27-Jun-2024	G->O: Update existing single instance items
3.0.0.1	Full ZIP ⭐	16-Jun-2024	G->O: Create & delete single instance items

🗒️ Progress Summary

📈 Project KanBan to track individual development items / issues

One-Way Sync

• Only creation, update and deletion of single instance items
• Recurring series will only have the initial "master" occurrence synced
• No category/colour sync
• No GMeet conference detail sync