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I want my wife and I to share a private calendar of family events, which we can access and edit in Outlook and on an iPhone or Android phone.

As a legacy free Google apps user, my first thought was to make my wife a Google account (within my app domain), create a calendar and share it between us. Having done so (using the "Share with specific people" calendar setting), I tried to then sync the calendar using the popular instructions for this process. It failed with the error:

Cannot verify or add the Internet Calendar in Outlook. Verify the link is a valid calendar link:

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/<snip>/public/basic.ics

The Google calendar settings page warns me:

This is the address for your calendar. No one can use this link unless you have made your calendar public.

Presumably this may be the source of my error – Outlook can't find anything at the URL since it's not public. However, I don't want to make the calendar public because it contains private information.

How do I access this calendar from Outlook? Am I misunderstanding the implications of making my calendar public?

Alternatively, is there a different approach I can take to share any type of calendar between those three targets (Android, iPhone and Outlook), accessible to two different people?

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Duncan Jones
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While an old question, it's still relevant today
The best way I've found to sync calendars and other data to/from Outlook is via [paid software] CompaionLink, which offers multiple solutions:

Google used to offer a free tool to sync to Outlook, but discontinued it ~2015ish, and while there are other software solutions, I've never come across one that is as functional, customizable, and seamless as CompanionLink.

  • I'm not a fan of their DejaOffice/DejaCloud service/app and configuring the CompanionLink sync profile to push any changes will result in auto-sync between Outlook and Google
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Calendar can be displayed in Outlook, but not edited when adding a new Internet calendar to Outlook. What most people stumble across: Google blocks the initial access due to default safety settings. I am not sure any more where, but there are some security settings which you need to change/ give "your" Outlook access so that Google allows it to access the data.

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