Me: I live in Silicon Valley with my wife, child and cat. I have worked at Microsoft since I graduated from College, both in the Macintosh Business Unit on products such as Outlook Express, Entourage, IE, and Virtual PC and in Windows Live on Hotmail, Calendar and People. I am currently a Principal Lead Program Manager on the Windows Live Social Networking team. I basically manage a team of Program Managers responsible for delivering features to support our web and client applications. I've been blogging since 2001 and like to play around with .NET in my spare time working on projects such as dasBlog (the blog that powers this site) and Send to SmugMug (an application for uploading photos to SmugMug). I blog about a number of technology and productivity related topics.
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Google finally released a Calendar Sync add-in for Outlook. I downloaded and installed the software to do a 1 way sync of my Calendar so that my wife can see my availability.
Google did a fantastic job of building something simple "that just works". Unfortunately it only allows for sync of your default calendar and not any other calendars.
There are three options to sync:
I'm using the last one. Then I can share my free busy with my wife.
There is a little tray application that tells you what is going on:
This makes family scheduling great because in addition to that we have the following calendars:
Here is a pic illustrating the calendars:
In addition to this I get email reminders a day in advance for all Family stuff, that way I don't miss anything.
Lora gets email reminders 1 week in advance for all my travel, so she is aware of things with enough time to plan.
Very cool stuff.
Helps a lot with "Mind like water".