What’s new

Release notes v. 5.5.0 (September 3rd, 2024):

• Added the ability to retrieve and save Outlook contact items using Redemption Data Objects.
• Implemented a workaround to get and create Google Groups.
• Implemented a workaround to check and handle duplicated Google People item IDs.
• Implemented a workaround to fix deprecated Google system groups (family, friends, workers).
• Implemented a workaround to support large data and FBS quota limits using Google People API.
• Improved application stability and performance.

Release notes v. 5.4.0 (November 2nd, 2021):

• Migrated to Google People API with deprecation of the Google Contacts API from December 15, 2021.
• Improved application stability and performance.

Release notes v. 5.3.4 (October 5th, 2021):

• Implemented workaround fix for Google API-specific HTTP Batch Request for Calendars and Tasks.
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.3.3 (November 3rd, 2020):

• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.3.2 (September 12th, 2020):

• Implemented Google API-specific HTTP Batch Endpoints for Calendars and Tasks.
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.3.1 (August 17th, 2020):

• Fixed insert of Calendar Events and Tasks with updated Google Service batching requests URL format.
• Fixed support of customized Microsoft Store Office working folder (Centennial version).
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.3.0 (July 24th, 2020):

• Outlook4Gmail is FIPS-compliant now!
• New Green code signing certificate is applied.
• Fixed retrieving Google contacts with AutoPaging default value.
• Improved processing of Batch operations for Google Contacts.
• Improved syncing of Contact Phone numbers in various formats.
• Added retrieving and adding Google Labels with exponential back-off.
• Fixed retrieving Google contact pictures without server error “Too Many Requests 429”.
• Added support of long names to Google labels (up to 400 symbols), Outlook folder (up to 255 symbols), Google Calendar names (up to 254 symbols).
• Implemented handling of “Rate Limit Exceeded” and “Precondition Failed” server errors for Google items.
• Improved and fixed support of Microsoft Store Office (Centennial version).

Release notes v. 5.2.0 (October 30th, 2019):

Contacts:

• Improved syncing algorithm based on Microsoft Outlook Messaging API.
• Optimized syncing performance by caching Outlook items.
• Optimized performance of duplicated items check.
• Implemented handling of “Request Entity Too Large” and “Bad Gateway” server errors for Google items.
• Improved and fixed Phones syncing.
• Improved and fixed Chat (IM Address) set syncing.
• Improved and fixed Web Page syncing.
• Implemented retrieving of SMTP address for Exchange User by session Recipients table.

Calendars:

• Fixed and updated Standard Time Zones naming.

Other updates:

• Product site and URLs are translated to German.
• “Welcome” page is displayed at the first start.
• Improved processing of Batch operations for Google Contacts.
• Improved and fixed support of Microsoft Store Office (aka Centennial) version.

Release notes v. 5.1.4 (May 22th, 2019):

Contacts

• Sync algorithm improved by the ability to check and analyze similar items.
• Changed the way of syncing Phones set; support for standard, undefined and named labels in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese.
• Option to skip sync Birthdays and Anniversaries.
  Changed the way to get an SMPT e-mail address for Exchange User.

Stability and performance optimization

• Improved processing of bad formatted Birthday and Anniversary dates from Google.
• Google Group synchronization is improved.
• Improved the way of processing Batch operations for Google Contacts.
• Changed the way of using Messaging API with different data storages.
• Improvements and fixes to OAuth user authenticate.
• Changed and improved exponential backoff algorithm of checking and getting Outlook application object.
• Fixes and Improvements to Microsoft Store Office (aka Centennial) version.

User interface and usability

• Support Simplified Ribbon for Microsoft Office 2019.

Release notes v. 5.1.3 (January 29th, 2019):

• Support Office/Outlook 2019.
• Support Office/Outlook from Microsoft Store (Centennial).
• Support multiple monitors with different DPI scaling.
• Improved user interface and usability.
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.1.2 (May 23rd, 2018):

• Improved user interface and usability.
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.
• Privacy Policy changed to comply with GDPR (European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations).

Release notes v. 5.1.1 (January 15th, 2018):

• Support for French language.
• Improved user interface and usability.
• Improved application stability and performance optimization.

Release notes v. 5.1.0 (September 21st, 2017):

• Synchronization of Google Contact Group/Label with selected Outlook folder and vice versa.
• User interface and usability improvement.
• Stability and performance optimization of Outlook4Gmail is increased.

Release notes v. 5.0.0 (April 5th, 2017):

• Task synchronization option.
• Sync recurring Outlook Tasks with Google Task list.
• User interface and usability improvement.
• Stability and performance optimization of Outlook4Gmail is increased.

Release notes v. 4.6.3 (March 14th, 2017):

• “0 Minutes” reminders support.
• An issue with Google “Interesting Calendars” (Holidays, Sports) is fixed.
• Application stability and performance optimization is increased.
• Other non-critical fixes.

Release notes v. 4.6.2 (January 11th, 2017):

• Synchronization “My Contacts” from Google only (contacts from “Other” and “Most Contacted” groups are skipped).
• Synchronization appointment reminders and event notifications.
• Increased application stability, performance optimization, various non-critical fixes.

Release notes v. 4.6.1 (June 6th, 2016):

• Added proxy settings customization.
• Implemented “Bypass Phone Type” option for Contacts synchronization (sync phone numbers without association with phone type).
• Added ability to skip scanning of the Public folders (Exchange Server).
• Added support of non-standard font sizes and DPI settings.
• Increased application stability, optimized performance, various non-critical fixes.

Release notes v. 4.6.0 (May 2nd, 2016):

• Added Contacts synchronization from multiple Outlook folders with a Google account.
• Implemented customization of synchronization rules for any Gmail account or Outlook folder.
• Improved user interface for Calendar synchronization rules, Google accounts dialog, updated System Tray messages.
• Fixed scheduled synchronization issues (deleting appointments, apply of updated options.
• Increased application stability, optimized performance, various non-critical fixes.

Release notes v. 4.5.1 (April 6th, 2016):

• Implemented a workaround for syncing daily appointments in Outlook 2003.
• Improved processing of Appointment exceptions using Extended MAPI.
• Increased application stability, performance optimization, various non-critical fixes.

Release notes v. 4.5.0 (March 3rd, 2016)

• Implemented new design.
• Multilingual User Interface (English, German and Russian).
• Added a tool to fix contact’s birthday date without year.
• Fixed inter-process communication issue in synchronization component and Outlook4Gmail plugin.
• Increased application stability, performance optimization, various non-critical fixes.

New in version 4.4.3 (December 23rd, 2015)

• Ability to send a feedback using system Start Menu Programs
• Increased application stability, performance optimization, various non-critical fixes

New in version 4.4.2 (November 30th, 2015)

• Synchronization of X.400 and X.500 e-mail formats of Microsoft Exchange Server contacts
• Google Groups and Outlook Categories fix
• Loading optimization, fixed unloading of the add-on for Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007
• Increased application stability, performance optimization, various non-critical fixes

New in version 4.4.1 (June 2nd, 2015)

• Fixed synchronization of contacts with badly formatted relations
• Fixed hanging of the Calendar synchronization

New in version 4.4.0 (May 27th, 2015)

Features added:

• Added support of Recurrent event’s exceptions (occurrences)
• Added synchronization of “Visibility” field for Calendar events
• Added synchronization of “Spouse”, “File As” fields for Contacts
• Added ability to generate “File As” fields for Contacts in Outlook
• Improved “Delete items” dialog (provided more details)

Defects corrected:

• Improved Calendar synchronization (reduced amount of update requests)
• Fixed a case when contacts folder is not selected
• Fixed sync issues with “Birthday”,”Anniversary”, “Job”, “Company” for Contacts
• Fixed deletion of phone numbers in Google that don’t match phone number types in Outlook

New in version 4.3.2 (February 25th, 2015)

Features added:

• Added ability to find and remove duplicates in Contacts and Calendar events
• Added synchronization of “Busy Status” for Calendar events
• Prevent Outlook Security Programmatic Access Warning

New in version 4.3.1 (November 19th, 2014)

Features added:

• Added support of manual authorization. User could input Google authorization code for application

Defects corrected:

• Fixed synchronization of “All Day” events
• Fixed shifting events on synchronization

New in version 4.3.0 (November 14th, 2014)

Features added:

• Support of Google Calendar API version 3.0
• Improved account authorization for Google Services
• 7-day trial period

Defects corrected:

• Occasional failures on synchronization of recurrent events like “the last”, “the 2nd”, “the 1st” and etc.

New in version 4.2.2 (August 19th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed syncing of appointment description format in Outlook
• Fixed processing of “Invalid” and “Ambiguous” time values (Daylight saving time issue)

New in version 4.2.1 (August 5th, 2014)

Features added:

• Added “4 hours”, “8 hours” and “12 hours” selects to scheduled synchronization options

Defects corrected:

• Fixed synchronization of events that never happen (Occurrences = 0)
• Fixed synchronization of non-standard recurrent events like “the last”, “the 2nd”, “the 1st” and etc.

New in version 4.2.0 (July 23rd, 2014)

Features added:

• Added ability to skip synchronization of old events (older than 1 month, older than 1 year and etc.)
• Added support of “24 hours” option by scheduled automatic synchronization

Defects corrected:

• Improved synchronization of events with incorrect start date

New in version 4.1.12 (July 14th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Improved appearing of the tray messages
• Fixed synchronization with Google account that does not have contacts
• Fixed access to temporary folder

New in version 4.1.11 (April 17th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed contacts synchronization (provided support of the latest Google update)

New in version 4.1.10 (April 17th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed user picture synchronization (provided support of the latest Google update)
• Improved performance of contacts/calendars synchronization
• Added restore settings from backup in case of load settings failure

New in version 4.1.9 (April 11th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed user picture synchronization (provided support of the latest Google update)
• Improved performance of contacts/calendars synchronization
• Added restore settings from backup in case of load settings failure

New in version 4.1.8 (February 19th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Improved user interface (Outlook ribbon, toolbar, menu and etc.)
• Improved contacts groups synchronization

New in version 4.1.7 (February 12th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Improved event synchronization with custom timezones
• Fixed support of “Invalid” and “Ambiguous” time values (Daylight saving time)

New in version 4.1.6 (January 30th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed support of custom DPI settings
• Improved synchronization of “Canceled” and “AllDay” events; events with poorly-formatted data

New in version 4.1.5 (January 14th, 2014)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed process of deletion calendar events
• Added new google contacts to “My Contacts” group
• Improved contacts pictures synchronization
• Improved contacts groups synchronization

New in version 4.1.3 (December 17th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of recurrent events with undefined timezone
• Improved Google Groups Cleaning up

New in version 4.1.2 (December 14th, 2013)

Features added:

• Automatic start of missed schedule synchronization on Outlook start

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of recurrent events with incorrect “Interval” parameter
• Improved Google Groups Cleaning up

New in version 4.1.1 (December 13th, 2013)

Features added:

• Improved application ribbon that makes easier access to synchronization options
• Added full support of all contact’s phone number types
• Added support of multiple Outlook Data Files (.pst)
• Added support of Internet Calendars
• Added option to clean up empty Contact Groups on synchronization

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of range occurence of calendar events
• Fixed all-day events synchronization

New in version 4.0.26 (November 15th, 2013)

Features added:

• Added balloon tooltips control to “Miscellaneous” dialog

New in version 4.0.25 (October 25th, 2013)

Features added:

• Added option to skip appearing of tray messages to settings file

Defects corrected:

• Fixed “Accounts” dialog on edit of contact’s folder

New in version 4.0.24 (October 23rd, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Improved time zone processing

New in version 4.0.23 (October 17th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of groups and categories
• Fixed updating contact’s pictures

New in version 4.0.22 (October 16th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Improved contacts synchronization

New in version 4.0.21 (October 12th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of corrupted settings file
• Improved communication between application components

New in version 4.0.20 (October 12th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed loading of log events
• Improved calendar events synchronization

New in version 4.0.19 (October 5th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed and improved exponential backoff request with Google Contacts, Calendars and Appointments
• Fixed and improved License verification

New in version 4.0.18 (October 4th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed installation process
• Fixed yearly recurrent events for Outlook 2007
• Improved error handling
• Google batch request processing

New in version 4.0.17 (October 3rd, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Google batch request processing

New in version 4.0.16 (October 1st, 2013)

Features added:

• Support of exponential backoff to retry failed requests

New in version 4.0.15 (September 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• Support of exponential backoff to retry failed requests

New in version 4.0.12 (September 24th, 2013)

Features added:

• Improved application startup performance

Defects corrected:

• To avoid locks of data on syncing, enabled sequential syncing mode

New in version 4.0.11 (September 21st, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed synchronization of yearly recurrent appointments with Outlook

New in version 4.0.10 (September 18th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of iteration counter for recurrent events

New in version 4.0.9 (September 14th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed “The entry is already part of this collection” issue on processing batch requests
• Fixed processing of inconsistent recurrent events

New in version 4.0.8 (September 13th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed processing of recurrent events ‘by month day’
• Provided continuing of calendar appointment syncing whenever a parsing error occurs

New in version 4.0.7 (September 12th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Improved error handling
• Fixed updating calendar’s names in settings file

Known issues:

• Hourly’, ‘minutely’, ‘secondly’ calendar events are not supported
• Recurrent event’s exceptions (occurences) are not supported

New in version 4.0.6 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed installation process

New in version 4.0.5 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed issue with duplication of empty Contact’s Groups
• Fixed processing of user-defined time zones

New in version 4.0.4 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed signing of installation files

New in version 4.0.3 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed processing of recurrent events like ‘last Sunday of October’

New in version 4.0.2 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed group membership for new contacts in Google
• Fixed annual events synchronization

New in version 4.0.1 (September 9th, 2013)

• Fixed processing of registration data

New in version 4.0 (September 9th, 2013)

• Synchronization of Contact Categories with Google Groups
• Synchronization of Contact Pictures: the simplest way to sync contacts with profile photos (user avatars)
• Synchronization of Calendars from multiple Google accounts with Outlook
• Support of multiple Gmail accounts with support of ‘one-to-many’, ‘many-to-one’ and ‘many-to-many’ relationships
• Automatic scheduled synchronization by time interval
• Application menu which provides access to the main application functionality and settings (Outlook 2003-2007)

New in version 3.2 RC 2 (April 30th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• Fixed installation on systems with 32-bit MS Office and 64 Windows
• Fixed support of custom user accounts in case of application installation by user account with administrator privileges
• Fixed installation on systems with MS Office 2007 installed, but without Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 installed
• Fixed access to shared resources
• Fixed data deserialization on reading supplemental files
• Fixed Birth data synchronization
• Fixed Anniversary date synchronization
• Fixed address (street, zip code, city and etc.) synchronization

New in version 3.0 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• Outlook user interface keeps responsive during data synchronization, the synchronization process can be canceled
• Improved application ribbon that displays all application features (requires MS Outlook 2007 or higher)
• Assignment folders to accounts
• Synchronization filter that skips synchronization of unreliable contacts (contacts without required information, such as email address or phone number)

Defects corrected

• Ability to synchronize large amount of data

New in version 2.6 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• Automatic disabling of real time update feature for Gmail contacts source for one-way synchronization
• Captcha input required during logging in to Google

Defects corrected:

• Automatic processing of Outlook contacts data and properties improved and accelerated
• Google accounts options fixed
• Real time update fixed

New in version 2.5 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• New Google contacts imported from Outlook added to ‘My Contacts’ group
• Synchronization process strongly improved

Defects corrected:

• Synchronization process progress bar
• Clean-up of Google contact groups tags after synchronization
• Crash during processing names containing quta characters
• Deleted contacts management
• Slow plugin startup

New in version 2.4 (April 30th, 2013)

• Add/Delete button for accounts list added

Defects corrected:

• Duplicate contacts issue fixed

New in version 2.3 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• Synchronization settings added
• Items deletion prompt added

Defects corrected:

• • Contacts synchronization fixed

New in version 2.2 (April 30th, 2013)

Defects corrected:

• • • Installation for Outlook x86 under Windows x64 platform fixed
    • Contacts synchronization fixed
    • Plugin initializing for Outlook 2003 fixed

New in version 2.1 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• • • Outlook 2010 support
    • Outlook x64 support

Defects corrected:

• • • Plugin startup fixed

New in version 2.0 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• • • Real time contacts update

Defects corrected:

• • • Crash on deleting the last item from the mail accounts table
    • Empty Outlook contact field does not affect a corresponding Gmail contact field change
    • After adding an account with the same name a warning message appears several times

Known Issues:

• • • Licensing has not been implemented yet
    • Contacts synchronization cannot be cancelled
    • When unloading the plugin in Outlook 2003 the Outlook4Gmail
    • Page is cleared but not deleted from the opened Tools dialog
    • After Tools reopening the page is not displayed

New in version 1.0 (April 30th, 2013)

Features added:

• • • Outlook 2003 and Outlook 2007 support
    • Different policies of contacts update are supported
    • Credentials for multiple Gmail accounts are stored

Known Issues:

• • When unloading the plugin in Outlook 2003, the Outlook4Gmail
  • Page is cleared but not deleted from the opened Tools dialog
  • After Tools reopening the page is not displayed