Syncing a GMail Calendar with Entourage and iCal w/Calgoo

I have read blogs and forums on how to do this but ran into troubles or became frustrated by the instructions.

Background – My primarily calendar is in GMail. All my calendars are caldev’d in iCal. Entourage was recently installed on my work machine meaning I had zero events in its calendar.

Without noting clicks for ‘next’ or other similar buttons Here is the ultra streamlined version…

1. Open Entourage
   1. in Preferences, Sync Services, click Synchronize events and tasks with iCal and MobileMe
2. Open iCal and verify that a new calendar called ‘Exchange’ has been created
3. Open Calgoo
   1. create a new connection,
   2. use the Sync an Apple iCal Calendar with a Google Calendar option,
   3. name the connection — I used: ical 2 gmail,
   4. click iCal, click the box next to Entourage,
   5. enter your GMail user|pass,
   6. select a GMail calendar,
   7. and finish up
4. Optional – In the Calgoo settings change the Synchronization frequency; it is set to 1 hour by default.
5. In iCal, un-check the Entourage calendar so it is not displayed

If you run into any troubles with these steps please post a comment below.

Voila. Your GMail, caldev’d iCal, and Entourage calendars will sync every xx minutes. Add events in any of the three calendars noted (GMail, caldev’d iCal, Entourage) and you’ll see the new event in all three applications (web, iCal, Entourage) pending the Calgoo Synchronization frequency – I set mine to 10 minutes.

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