I use Google Calendar Sync to synchronize my Outlook calendar items with Google Calendar and this worked fine until I upgraded to Office 2010.
Google Calendar Sync did not like Outlook 2010 and I was no longer able to synchronize calendar items. I was almost tempted to go back to Outlook 2007 and then I found a thread to resolve this issue
Follow these steps to get Google Sync work with Outlook 2010
- Backup Outlook.exe. If you have done a default install of Office 2010, the file can be found at
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14 - Close Outlook if its already running and ensure that Outlook.exe is not listed in Task Manager
- Edit Outlook.exe in a Hex Editor
- Replace text
14.0.0with12.0.0 - Save the file.
- Start Outlook and ensure that its still functioning
- Start Google Calendar Sync and you should see sync back in action.
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Great Tip, thanks a lot!
awesome
Thanks for posting this Tip!
NOTE: This trick does NOT work for 64bit Outlook.
This solution only works for 32bit Office 2010 Installations.
I used HxD edit. Searched for 14.0.0 replaced with 12.0.0 – works like a charm.
I definitely recommend this solution as opposed to rolling back to 2007.
Prog
simply AWESOME! works great.
How did you deal with “Cannot open file c:\Program….\Outlook.exe” for write access. Access is denied.”?
The directory was marked as read only. The application is not in task manager.
Answered own question Run HxD as Administrator. Also when changing 14.0.0 to 12.0.0 be sure to only overwrite the 4 to a 2… do not press Delete on the 4 or it changes the file size and becomes an invalid file.
Works perfect indeed. At first I got the message “No permission to edit this file (translated)” but if you run the hex editor as administrator it works! Thanks
Perfect. Thank you
I’ve been trying all afternoon to get this working, but I keep on getting a message that I can’t write in this file. What am I doing wrong? I am using the home beta version of Outllok 2010 and HxD as Hex editor.
Hope someone can help!
been looking for days…and this seems to be the only answer that really works. Thanks a million.
Glad to know it helped a lot of people here
Tamar,
You probably haven’t closed outlook; if you have closed, it might be that the process is still running; Open task manager and kill “outlook.exe” if its still running after you close outlook
Also as Pieter mentioned in his comment, if you are running Vista, take care of that crappy UAC
ist realy working without problem, try it!!!
You are the greatest. Works perfectly.
Great. It worked
Work for me too. Thank so much!
Wow-wish I would have found this sooner. I am not that technical but used the hex editor suggested and now it works like a charm both ways.
incredible. there are so many threads on the web stating categorically that this is impossible. well done venukb!
Dude,
you are beyond good.
First couple of pages of search results scream not possible and to think that they have hundreds of developers sitting at google and yet such a simple update could not be done by Goog simply because they cannot support a beta isnt that ironic that ALL their products are still in beta despite taking some beta tags off!!)
Yes Guru, all Google needs to do is to release a version which recognizes Office 14.0 as a valid version
The sync works fine between Outlook 2010 and Google Calendar and this should be enough for Google to support 2010
Meanwhile a note to all who have done this change to get the Sync going:
Be Careful while installing Social connectors into Outlook; I installed the LinkedIn Connector and it kind of screwed up my Outlook setup – had to reinstall it again. These connectors are built for Outlook 2010 and they always expect to see a 14.0 as the version string