Outlook 2016 for Mac begins rolling out support for Google Calendar and Contacts

In a stew of cross-platform goodness, Microsoft has announced that it is now rolling out Google Calendar and Contact support to Outlook for Mac. This brings the Mac client closer in line with Outlook on other platforms like iOS and Android, which also provide ample support for Google accounts.
From Microsoft (opens in new tab):
Outlook for Mac has long supported connecting to and managing your Gmail. With these updates, Outlook will now also sync your Google calendars and contacts. The experience will be very similar to what you are familiar with in Outlook today, with support for all the core actions—such as add, delete, edit time and location. All changes will update back and forth with Gmail or Outlook for iOS and Android, so everything is in sync across all your devices.
This announcement, like most, has its caveats, of course. Support isn't widely available just yet, as Microsoft wants to solicit feedback from Fast ring Office Insiders first. The rollout is set to expand to more and more insiders over the coming weeks ahead of a general release sometime "later this year."
If you're already a member of the Office Insider Fast ring, you can simply check for updates in Outlook to see if this latest batch of features is available for you now. If you're not yet a member, you can sign up by heading to Help > Check for Updates, checking the box to join the Insider program, and selecting either the Fast or Slow ring.
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Will Microsoft release the start live tiles to other platforms?
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I've wanted to migrate from Thunderbird to Outlook 2016 for ages... But last time I called Office Support to get help to migrate all of my emails, subfolders, & other stuff, they were pretty useless. Does anyone know of an excellent migration tool for Thunderbird --> Outlook 2016? (OSX Yosemite, 10.10.5). MS Office doesn't offer one (at least they claimed they don't), and claimed that I have to approach Mozilla etc. I want most stuff to come across seamlessly, last time I looked into all of this carefully, there was just too many compromises. There was some 3rd-party tools for some $, but I was not confident in how well they actually work. Haven't had a chance to get back to it all, as other priorities came to the fore...
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Simple set up an IMAP (or activesync) e-mail account in Outlook 2016
and tell Outlook to snyc all your e-mail content with the server of your e-mail provider.
And tell Outlook to keep all your e-mails on the provider's server for good. And of course you should check all the setting using the web-front end of your e-mail provider
to make sure all the mails stay on the server and things like that. Just let Outlook 2016 (or any e-mail client or app) sync all of your demails and you're done. -
That'd work if all of my accts in my TB client were already using IMAP/AS, alas none of them are. Trying to sync everthing that's local in TB, to Outlook... On second thought.... Pretty sure I actually did all that, still only syncs emails, not all the sub-folders & other stuff stuff.
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Interesting...what is this, beta testing first on Mac? I too have been waiting for years to use the outlook client and not the native one, but still can't. No google sync no bueno.
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Will CardDAV and CalDAV finally be "native" in Outlook as a result of this?
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Not there. I have the insider fast update. Calendar not syncing at all.
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Has Outlook for Mac finally learned to save its own screen geometry? The last few times I tried to use Outlook, I would get frusted in that every time I opened it, I would have to re-size its window. I would stretch it out so that I could see more information. The next time, it would open with a small window size again. Got tired of it. Just went back to the built-in Mail app.