Google Apps Sync

Google Apps Sync is such a useful plug-in for Outlook 2003 or 2007 which supports  you  to be familiar with Outlook interface after switching from Microsoft Exchange Server to Google Apps. Use nearly all the Outlook features you're used to with Exchange to manage your Google Apps Mail, Calendar, and Contacts.

Google Apps Sync is designed to help sync all your email messages, calendar events, and contacts in Outlook seamlessly with your Google Apps account in the cloud, allowing you to access the same information at any time, from either interface. Importing your existing data from Exchange is easy, too, so you'll waste no time in making the transition.

Major Features:

1. Access from anywhere...
   • With Google Apps Sync, your mail, contacts, and calendar events are stored both in the Google cloud and in Outlook on your computer. Google Apps Sync makes sure data is the same in both places by regularly copying, or synchronizing it back and forth. Incoming messages, meeting invitations, and contact information are downloaded from the cloud to Outlook, while changes you make locally sync back up with the cloud. Because the cloud is accessible from anywhere on the Internet (not just from behind your firewall), you can access this information from any computer anywhere—either from Outlook, or by logging in to Google Apps using a web browser.
2. Working offline
   • You can also use Outlook while working offline such as during a plane flight, or with a very slow or intermittent connection. As when you use Exchange, Google Apps Sync works seamlessly as an offline client, batching data on your computer to synchronize with the cloud the next time you connect. When you do connect, Google Apps Sync updates your account in the cloud with all the new email messages, calendar events, and contact information you've created while offline.
3.  Using Mail with Google Apps Sync
   • After switching to Google Apps, you can keep using Mail in Outlook the same as you did with Exchange. Send mail, reply and forward, accept calendar invitations, organize messages in folders, flag messages and receive reminders, mark messages as unread, assign importance levels and message categories, and much more.
4.  Using Calendar with Google Apps Sync
   • With Google Apps Sync, you can also keep using your Outlook Calendar as you're used to with Exchange. Schedule events, including all-day events or a series of recurring meetings. Make an event public or private. View your co-workers' free/busy information to see who's available when. Respond to invitations, update notes in an event, receive reminders, organize events using colored labels (Outlook 2003) or categories (Outlook 2007), and much more.
5. Using Contacts with Google Apps Sync
   • With Google Apps Sync, you can also manage your contacts in Outlook the same as with Exchange. These include personal contacts you add and manage yourself. And if your administrator uses Google Apps Sync's GAL Generator to create a Global Address List for your domain, global addresses are available, as well.
6. Using Tasks, Notes, and Journal
   • You can import Tasks, Notes, and Journal entries from Exchange to your Google Apps profile in Outlook and continue using these features much as before. Place to-do items on your task list and track your progress completing them. Jot down ideas on colored sticky Notes. Record journal entries to track hours spent on a particular account, or to keep a timeline of when you work on certain documents.

Requirements:

• Windows:
• • XP (32 bit) SP3 or (SP2 with update and hotfix)
  • Vista (32 bit) SP1
• Outlook:
• • 2003 SP3
  • 2007 SP2 (or SP1 with hotfix)