Corrected an Outlook security issue where Outlook was not able to locate gSyncit's trusted digital signature on all components. This issue caused Outlook to fail to load into Outlook and in some cases cause the Outlook Object Model Security Guard dialog to appear during the sync process.

Corrected "The operation failed." issue when handling recurring event exceptions. 

Corrected issue with the v1.17.10 build which caused events events that occur outside the specified sync date range to get synced when using the option to sync items within a specific date range. This also caused the sync process to take much longer than in prior builds.

Updated the notes sync process which caused duplicate notes to appear in the Google trash folder. The Google Document services has a bug which causes duplicate documents to get created when inserting new documents. gSyncit removes these duplicates resulting in items being placed in the trash folder. This update resolves these extra items from appearing the in trash folder.  

Corrected critical issue with recurring events where recurring event exceptions could be deleted after repeated sync's of the same item.

Improved the performance of the Outlook to Google sync to when scanning through recurring events.

Corrected issue where when a category that maps to a Gmail contact group is removed from an Outlook contact that contains only one category then the contact is not removed from the Gmail group. This issue only happens when the Outlook contact contains only one category and that category is removed.  

Corrects an issue where syncing an accepted meeting request can trigger the event to be inadvertently deleted. If an unaccepted appointment invite is synced, then the event is accepted and synced, then on the following sync the event is incorrectly marked for deletion.  

Corrected issue where un-checking "Notes" from the automatic sync option failed to be saved after closing and reopening Outlook.

Corrected issue with the sync on exit feature not working properly. When this option is enabled the sync process dialog would appear and then disappear quickly in some instances and the sync would not occur. This issue has been resolved.

Changed the contact sync process to exclude the assignment of the main Google Gmail Contact group when using the Gmail groups option to automatically sync Gmail groups with Outlook categories.

This option allows for a contact mapping to use the "My Contacts" list as the main contact listing rather than the "All Contacts" list and prevents the "System Group: My Contacts" category from being assigned to Outlook contacts.

Corrected an issue where "System Group:" appears as part of the category name when using the option to automatically map Gmail groups with Outlook categories.

Corrected issues related to Gmail for hosted domains allowing users to define group names that conflict with the Google "System Groups:" which are not visible on the Gmail site but visible via Google contact services. This caused issues with gSyncit properly mapping Gmail groups with Outlook categories when using the option to automatically map Gmail groups with Outlook categories.

Corrected issue with the sync sync interval which would get reset when the user closes the settings dialog when the user did not make any changes to the sync interval value.

Corrected recurring event sync issue where when the RRULE for a recurring event contained an INTERVAL the event was incorrectly setting the instance parameter for an Outlook recurring event. This caused the event to appear as 'occurring yearly on the x weekday of the month' rather than 'occurring on the x day of the month'.

Below is a sample recurring event pattern containing a defined INTERVAL parameter that causes the described issue. Typically, the INTERVAL is not defined for a yearly recurring event so most users will not typically encounter this issue.

DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081229
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1

Corrected error "The end date you entered occurs before the start date. Error while updating item: Silvia cleans house. The end date you entered occurs before the start date." which occurs when updating an existing Outlook recurring event.

Resolved CRITICAL issue caused by recent changes deployed by Google to the calendar service that prevented all-day recurring events from syncing properly between Google and Outlook.

Resolved reported issues matching Gmail contacts with Outlook contacts listed as last, first. This issue resulted in duplicate contacts appearing in Outlook and discrepancies between Outlook and Gmail total contacts count. 

Resolved a performance issue when saving Outlook calendar events.

Revised logging information for better diagnostics.

Routine source code restructuring to make the product easier to maintain and support.

Minor improvements to sync speed.

Added support for using Outlook with multiple profiles in the same Windows session.

Corrected "object reference not found" error when calling "MakeNameNormalized" which is caused by a contact that contains a null/undefined full name value.

Added new configuration option to enable/disable 100-Continue header response handling to resolve "Stream was not readable" issues. By default this option is enabled. It's recommended that this option be disabled to resolve this issue.

Added new configuration option to enable/disable using connection keep-alive to improve connectivity. By default this option is turned off since this works on all networks. When enabled some networks may have problems honoring this option and cause the connections to timeout incorrectly.

Resolved issue with syncing Google special calendars to Outlook where the events would not sync due to date range issue used when syncing all appointments.

Added a configuration option to the contact and notes sync to allow items to be deleted. Any items deleted in either Outlook or Google will be ignored when this option is not selected.

Corrected issue where updates to Outlook meeting requests could trigger an item to get deleted by gSyncit. When a meeting is updated Outlook reassigns the meeting a new Outlook id. When this happens gSyncit matches the new event with the Google event that is also mapped to the old Outlook id. Because this event is mapped to the new and an old entry id it ends up getting deleted. This issue was resolved in an older release and has resurfaced after some recent code changes. The issue is now resolved once again.

Corrected '(403)' errors that occur when inserting/updating recurring event exceptions.

Corrected 'You changed one of the recurrences of this item, and this instance no longer exists. Close any open items and try again.' reported during sync.

Revised the functionality to prompt when items are deleted. The underlying code was cleaned up so that it could be better managed in the future.  

Revised the calendar syncing option to always overwrite older events on conflict to properly handle a case were one item is modified and the other is deleted. In this case the item from the primary source will automatic replace the item that is not the primary source when this configuration option is selected. 

Updated the "Username" label on all Google account information fields to show as "Username / Email" since users were getting confused when using Google Apps for Domain accounts. For non gmail.com accounts the username needs to be the full username@domain.com vs. just a username.  

Added configuration option to the calendar sync to enable/disable syncing appointment body information.


 

Corrected object reference error when updating an Outlook event with an unexpected null subject entry. This error causes an exception in the function ElipseString() which can seen in the details of the error message.

Fix for the error "You changed one of the recurrences of this item, and this instance no longer exists. Close any open items and try again."

Corrected issue where gSyncit is not properly skipping errors encountered updating outlook recurring event exceptions when the option to automatically continue on error is enabled.

Updated the contact sync matching logic to match Outlook contacts formatted with last, first with Gmail contacts. For example, Outlook contacts formatted as "last, first" will not match up with Gmail contacts listed as "first last".

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Fixed critical issue were duplicate Gmail groups were being created when using the new auto group creation feature in the v1.16.10 release.

Added Gmail group sync option to automatically sync Gmail groups with Outlook categories and automatically create Gmail groups for any assigned Outlook categories.

This option greatly simplifies the ability to sync Outlook categories and Gmail groups and eliminates the need to manually create Gmail groups to match Outlook categories. This option enabled Syncit to automatically assign Gmail group names as Outlook categories and to create/assign Gmail groups based on assigned Outlook categories.

Corrected a reported "object reference not found" error when using the feature to prompt before deleting calendar events.

Corrected issue using the free/busy option where gSyncit failing to match up Outlook events with Google events causing duplicate events to appear in the Google calendar during a clean/new sync.

Resolved issue with the installer starting the Outlook profile setup when the installer starts Outlook after the install. This issue affected users that have Windows User Access Control enabled and selected the option to launch Outlook after the install. 

Added the ability to set the default contact visibility when creating or updating Outlook contacts from Gmail contacts.

Resolved issues syncing notes with Google documents that have been renamed.

Added a link the product support page from error dialogs.

Resolved issues with the installer placing files the C:\ when installing as a windows power user.

Resolved reported 412 preconditioned failed error when updating/inserting Google Documents with Outlook notes.

Corrected several reported object reference not found errors when updating notes to Google documents. This issue appears to happen when Outlook notes do not contain a valid subject/title.

Changed the default source for calendars, contacts and notes to Outlook. This change means that Outlook is considered the primary source and that the initial sync order will Outlook to Google first when doing a two-way sync. Outlook items will replace Google items on the initial sync by default. In prior releases Google was considered the default source, however, most users view their Outlook data as the primary source.

Added error dialogs to the calendar mapping dialog reminding users to select Google calendar and Outlook calendar folder.

Corrected issue where 412 error would appear during the synchronization of notes.

Corrected "Error retrieving document folders. An item with the same key has already been added." error that occurred when retrieving a list of document folders.

Corrected "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" when looking for existing Outlook notes to match up with existing Google note/documents.

Added configuration option to enable/disable syncing notes associated with contacts.

Resolved issue with duplicate attendees being added to Outlook calendar events when updated from Google events. Issue only occurs when using the sync participants option.

Resolved issue using the import/export settings feature failing to save imported settings.

Resolved photo quality issue where Outlook 72x72 images were being scaled up to Google's 96x96 causing  stretched image affect.

Corrected critical issue with notes sync where Outlook note items were incorrectly deleted upon a second sync. This issue affected users that enabled SSL with the notes feed mapping. The root cause of the issue appears to be a defect in how Google is assigning document id's.

Resolves "object reference not found" error during contact sync related to being unable to access Outlook contact photos.

Resolved issue registering product using a proxy server that has issues supporting HTTP v1.1.

Resolved issue where importing settings failed to update mapping configurations.

Resolved "Unable to cast COM object of type 'System.__ComObject' to interface type 'Microsoft.Office.Interop.Outlook._NoteItem'" during the notes sync. This issue is related to non-notes items being unexpectedly stored in a notes folder.

NOTES SYNC! A new mapping type has been added that allows an Outlook Notes folder to be synced with a Google documents folder. Additionally, category filtering rules can also be applied to limit the content published to Google doc's.

Added new configuration option to the connection settings panel to allow unsafe header parsing to address reported "The server committed a protocol violation. Section=ResponseStatusLine" error when attempting to issue requests to Google. The root issue is caused by an intermediary server (e.g. proxy server) failing to following the HTTP v1.1 specification which causes the Microsoft .Net frame to trigger this issue. 

Corrected defect with Outlook Primary and Assistant classified phone numbers stored in Gmail not syncing to Outlook.

Added option to the Calendar and Contact Google account settings to select the default Google account type. Most users on need the default account type. In the case where a user has the same user name for a hosted and non-hosted account they can now explicit indicate to gSyncit which account data to access.
 
By default when a user logs in using gSyncit they are routed to their default account data. If the user has only a Gmail account then they are routed to the Google data. If they have Google Apps account then they are routed to the "hosted" data. If a user needs to access data in either location they can now explicitly indicate this by setting the account type to hosted (Google Apps) or Google (gmail).

The primary usage of this option is to address issues with the Google Voice service and Google App account users that do not have gmail.com accounts. In this case Google Voice service only works with Google accounts and not "hosted" accounts. To enable Google App users to sync Outlook contacts for usage with the Google Voice service they can log in with their Google Apps login and set their account type to "hosted".


 

Resolved reported issue with the sync time frame feature added in v1.15.38 not working properly.

Resolved reported issue syncing contacts with a Google Apps account used for Google Voice services.

Resolved reported issue with duplicate email addresses appearing in Gmail for Outlook contacts that contain x400/exchange based email address.

Resolved reported typo's on various dialogs.

Added the ability to set the window of time per day that gSyncit will perform a sync. This new option is available on the sync options panel on the gSyncit settings dialog.

Added new option to set the Google request retry count and set the retry count default to 1 to help working around reported "(500) Internal Server Error" errors. This error appears to be intermittent and possibly an issue related to Google servers. This new configuration option is available on the connection panel on the gSyncit settings dialog.

Resolved issue where the option to automatically continue on error failed when an error occurred at the beginning a sync from a Google to Outlook calendar. Errors that occur _during_ the sync are properly ignored and supressed when this option is enabled.

Added the ability to import/export settings. This feature can be accessed from the system menu on the settings dialog.

Resolved issue creating an Outlook event for a recurrence pattern for an events that occur yearly on the last day of a specific month where the recurrence rule includes all days of the week vs. a single day as expected.

Added the ability to set the max size of the gSyncit log file. Some users have reported issues where they have limited storage for there windows account and gSyncit is consuming a large amount of this space for the log file. To resolve this issue the max size of the log file can now be specified on the gSyncit settings about panel.

Added "Report Error" button to error details that make it easier to report errors/issues to support.

Resolved a reported issue with gSyncit reporting a failure message when Outlook closes during a Windows shutdown.

Corrected User Access Control elevation prompt dialog when launching Outlook from the installer when installing gSyncit on Windows 7

Added option to use the Outlook contact 'FileAs' value when updating Gmail contact names. This option allows for displaying contacts in Gmail in a last, first name format.

Contact information displayed Outlook


Contact information displayed in Gmail

Added sync option to automatically perform a sync when exiting Outlook.

Corrected issue syncing the same Outlook calendar with the same Google calendar using multiple gSyncit calendar mappings where items would be incorrectly deleted from the Google calendar during the sync process.

A case existed that involved having two gSyncit calendar mappings linking the same Outlook calendar with the same Google calendar where each mapping uses a different sync date range and different set of category filtering criteria.

This defect occurs as a result of gSyncit viewing a single Outlook calendar and Google calendar pair as a unique id. When two gSyncit mappings use the same Outlook calendar and Google calendar gSyncit uses the same sync history data for both mappings when it should maintain history per feed rather than per outlook/Google calendar pair.

Switched the gSyncit sync history database from xml to a SQLite3 database for faster sync operations. Users with 500 or more entries should see an improvement in sync performance.  

Added sync support for the Outlook company phone number to sync as custom fields with Gmail contact.

Updated the installer to automatically start Outlook after the installation has completed.

Resolved issue where using the Gmail Categories feature for contact sync does not work when the Gmail main contact group is set to a value other than "All Contacts". For example, if the main Gmail group is set to "My Contacts" then then Gmail categories are ignored. This was a limitation from when the contact feature was first introduced and this limitation is no longer required.

Resolved issue where Outlook is not always closing when completely when gSyncit is installed. A Random set of users have reported this issue an otherwise works properly for most users.

Resolved issue where when two Gmail groups contain the same word causes Outlook categories to appear with partial names when using the gSyncit Gmail category sync option.

Resolved reported object reference not found error when attempt to delete items. After this error appears any item deleted in Outlook would reappear. If the item was deleted a second time the event would properly sync the delete.

Corrected issue updating Google contacts that contain extended properties with undefined values (error message below). When an extended property is updated with a contact then if the extended properties contains a value that is null or undefined the attribute is not included with the property which is later rejected by Google.

Users reporting this issue appear to be using Apple software to sync with Google that has a Google protocol location in it where it is setting extended properties with null or empty values and from what I understand this is either not support or Google is not properly validating requests when this value is undefined or missing from update request.

"The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. [Line 7, Column 25, element gd:extendedProperty] "

Corrected issue reported by Outlook 2003 users when upgrading from a release prior to v1.15.28 where the gSyncit settings appear to be removed. This issue is happening because gSyncit is unable to determine the default profile assigned to Outlook. Because of this it is triggering gSyncit to think that the current Outlook profile is not the default and creates a new settings file.

Corrected performance issue syncing multiple Google calendars with a single Outlook calendar. It was identified that gSyncit was constantly attempting to re-sync events that has been synced in the prior sync that did not need to be resynchronized. This update provides a dramatic performance increase to the sync process for those sing this configuration.

Corrected issue where Google events were not properly deleted when a category used for filtering events was removed from an Outlook event. If a calendar mapping is set to sync items assigned to a specific category and an Outlook event was unassigned from this specified category the corresponding Google calendar event was not properly being deleted. 

Corrected issue where deleted Outlook contact were being restored to the Outlook calendar after a sync when Outlook was set as the primary contact source. If the contact was deleted a second time the contact would then be deleted. This issue has been resolved and the Outlook contact is deleted properly during the sync following the actually deletion of the Outlook contact.

Corrected configuration issue using multiple Outlook 2003/XP profiles with a single Windows login. gSyncit was not properly binding configuration options to the active Outlook profile with these versions of Outlook resulting in the same configurations being used for all Outlook profiles. Outlook 2007 was not affected by this issue.

Corrected error "Error while updating item: (contact name). Value cannot be null.  Parameter name: value" when reading Google contacts. If a Gmail contact is created with multiple website addresses and none are assigned to home then this error would occur.

Corrected issue where a Gmail contact website address would not sync properly unless it was marked as "home". gSyncit will only sync with the Gmail contact website address that is marked as primary or matches the default website type on the contact mapping which defaults to "home page".

Updated the uninstall process to properly remove the gSyncit menu from the windows start menu.

Resolved an issue with syncing IM addresses to Google which causes the Google sync on Android to crash during the sync. Why the android app crashes is an issue in itself but this fix should prevent it from happening.

Resolved issue "can have at most one primary email address, found 2" error. 

Corrected a major versioning issue where after installingv1.15.24 gSyncit reported itself as being v1.15.23 when it really was the v1.15.24 codebase. This has been a major headache and very confusing for many users.

I'm not sure how this ended up in the release but the word "False" was appearing during the contact sync on the statues dialog. This was simply a cosmetic issue and didn't not affect the actual sync in any way.

Corrected issue reported with the content filtering configuration option added in v1.15.23 where the settings for the filter were not properly being displayed after closing and reopening the calendar mapping dialog. The options to include or exclude based on the keywords were being reversed.

Corrected issue where updated meeting requests were deleted from the Outlook calendar during a sync. After a meeting request had been accepted then ii the meeting was modified by the organizer then he event would be deleted by gSyncit upon the next sync.  

Updated the dialogs prompting to confirm a deletion to indicate if the item is a Google or Outlook contact or event.

Corrected "object reference not found" error when using the new feature to prompt before deleting events.

Added a new filtering option for calendar events to include or exclude events based on content within the event. With this feature users can choose to only sync items that contain certain keywords or to exclude events that contain specific words.


 

Users reported that after upgrading to v1.15.21 they are being prompted during the sync that the Google calendar time zone information is not properly defined. Google calendars SHOULD return proper time zone values as this information is important for the creating of recurring events. I've not been able to determine why this issue is happening for some users and not all.

To resolve this issue I've added a manual time zone setting to the calendar mapping dialog (restoring functionality that existed many releases ago) that allows users to override the time zone value.

Updated the Google calendar settings to show the time zone information and name for a selected Google calendar. There have been a number of support cases where users did not have their Google calendar set to the correct time zone which causes problems syncing recurring events. The time zone value assigned to a Google calendar is now clearly shown below the calendar feed path when available. When this value is undefined gSyncit will automatically update this value when a sync is performed. 

Updates the gSyncit welcome dialog to remind users to make a backup before syncing.

Corrected issue where if the option to automatically continue on error is enabled and an error is encountered then the contact sync process does not get invoked until the calendar issue is resolved.

Updated the recently added feature to prompt for deletes to include the start date of an event when prompting the user to delete an event.

Added option to manually confirm deletes for contacts and appointments.

Added ability to set a custom feed description to contact feed mappings.

Added option to set the default Gmail website field type and changed the default website address type to "home-page" vs. "home"

Improved the speed for updating Google recurring event exceptions.

Corrected a reported time zone issue in certain cases causing Google calendar recurring events to appear as all day events. This issue appears to have started when gSyncit switched over to using the Google calendar time zone value value vs. having to manually set this in gSyncit. This switch was may to support multiple calendars in different time zones and to reduce the amount of configuration.

Added support for syncing the website field between Outlook and Gmail contacts.

Corrected issue where "HYPERLINK" values appear in Gmail contact notes that are updated from a Outlook contact that contains links or email addresses in the notes field.

Resolved "object reference not found" error when performing a sync with a Google calendar that does not require authentication.

Resolved issue with duplicate events appearing in the Outlook calendar when using a system date format of mm.dd.yyyy HH:mm. This format causes the Outlook search logici to fail.

Resolved a reported "object reference not found" error during the contact sync process for contacts that use the IM address field.

Resolved a reported "object reference not found" error when updating appointment attendees.

Resolved issue updating Google contact IM address entries. This particular error would cause a 409 error followed by an "object reference not found error."

Added additional logging details to help diagnose various issues with reading/updated calendar and contacts in Outlook.

Updated the calls for reading Outlook contacts to use an explicit message store id vs. an implicit store id. This may resolve issues with Outlook possibly being unable to locate specific contact records.

Resolved issue where recurring events that include specific days may not sync due to an issue with how Google formats the BYDAY value of a recurring event. This issue appears to be a bug with the Google calendar. When an event is first created in the Google calendar this value is formatted incorrectly. If the same event is updated in the Google calendar the format is updated and is correct.

There are cases where Google formats a recurring event with details that includes a linefeed that breaks a recurrence rule into multiple lines. This causes gSyncit to incorrectly parse a recurrence rule from a Google event resulting in incomplete recurring events appearing in the Outlook calendar. For example a Google rule make read as:

RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;WKST=SU;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,
 TH,FR

gSyncit is expecting the rule to appear as ...

RRULE:FREQ=WEEKLY;WKST=SU;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=MO,TU,WE,TH,FR

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Revised logic for handling syncing via date range. The functionality is still the same. The code was cleaned to make it easier to maintain.

Corrected issue causing the following error .. "This item is already downloaded; it cannot be marked for download. You don't have appropriate permission to perform this operation." This error would cause either items to be duplicated or possibly incorrectly deleted from a calendar. This issue first originated in the in August 1st v1.15.11 release.

Revised sync date range logic to include recurring events that occur within the sync date range vs. only starting within the sync date range. Prior builds required that the master item in a recurring event be included in the sync date range for all events in the recurrence to sync. This is no longer required. Any event that occurs within the specified sync date range will trigger the entire recurring event item to sync.

Corrected an issue when syncing contacts with apostrophes in the name. In a recent update introduced this bug.

Updated gSyncit to use the time zone information from each Google calendar removes the need to configure this value. This configuration value has been an issue for some time causing users headaches if not set properly.

Corrected DISP_E_MEMBERNOTFOUND issue when saving appointments. This issue happens when a save is issued before the appointment has been fully loaded. This seems to be a rather random issue and in some cases the issue would resolve itself. This issue has been resolved.

Addressed some additional issues reported where recurring event exceptions were not syncing properly between Outlook and Google. One major case that has been addresses is when a recurring event exception is moved to the same day of another recurring event exception for the same recurrence pattern that was deleted. In this case both exceptions would end up deleted.

Resolved issue where an error is reported when attempting to update Google with a contact that contains the same email address more than once.

Corrected several reported issues with recurring event exceptions failing to sync properly between Outlook and Google calendar.

And issue was identified where the end time of a recurrence pattern was not being set correctly causing the last item in a recurring event to not appear in the Google calendar. gSyncit was only setting the date of a recurring event and not the date/time within the recurrence structure. It was setting the date/time on the base event which worked up until recently. This issue is believed to have started after recent updates to Google Calendar services where Google now relies on the recurring event information and ignore the date/time associated with the actual event that contains the recurrence information.

As a result of recent changes made by Google to the Google calendar services an issue surfaced where recurring event exceptions would not update in the Google calendar.

As a result of recent changes made by Google to the Google calendar services an issue has has surfaced where recurring events failed to sync properly with the Google calendar.  When gSyncit attempts to update/insert a recurring event the error "Entry can not contain both gd:when and gd:recurrence elements." is returned from Google.

The gSyncit code handling recurring event inserts and updates has remained the same for many months so I can only conclude that Google issued a change that has caused existing functionality to break. I make every effory to make sure gSyncit is up to date with the latest changes but unfortunatly I cannot anticipate when Google will issue breaking change like this. My appologies for those that have encountered down time as a result of this unforseen change.  

Removed the automatic time zone setting options. This option has caused a number of problems where local windows time zones can not automatically be mapped to a Google time zone value. It's easier and less error prone to simply set this option manually to be sure it is set correctly.

Resolved a UI issue on the contact mapping page where the controls on the Gmail groups tab were not properly displayed as disabled.

Updated the contact sync process to set the first Outlook email address as primary when updating the contact in Gmail. This issue addresses an issue reported where contacts updated by gSyncit to not appear with a primary email address on other devices that sync with Gmail.  

Corrected issue with event conflict functionality. A conflict dialog is now displayed when the same appointment is modified in one calendar and deleted it another at the same time. Prior releases on displayed  conflict dialog when both events have been modified and didn't treat deleted items as modified events. The conflict dialog allows the item to be replaced with the non-deleted item or for the item to be deleted.

Corrected issue where addresses updated from Google contacts were not appearing in Outlook on the business card view with the proper line breaks.

Corrected issue where turning off the usage of SSL communications does not always work.

Corrects a reported issue where auto sync does not work when the option to display the sync dialog is disabled.

Corrects a reported use with time zones not being properly set for recurring events causing recurring events to always appear as all day events in Google. 

Corrects a reported proxy server connectivity issue with the latest v1.15.x release.

Corrects a reported error with assembly versions when upgrading from another v1.15.x release.

Implemented fix for users that frequently encounter "(412) Precondition Failed" errors during the sync process.

Corrected minor issue where after performing a sync via the gSyncit tray application if a sync was performed through Outlook a dialog would appear saying "sync already in progress" when no sync operation was actually taking place.

Updated the settings dialog be to a resizable window. 

Minor performance updates.

Minor update that fixes a problem with the installer failing to create a gSyncit link on the program menu for some installations.

Updated the product welcome dialog for first time users to allow for setting the current time zone. When this setting is not configured properly recurring events will not appear correctly in the Google calendar and may appear as all day events.

Corrected reported "object reference not found" found when attempting to sync match up existing Google contacts with Outlook contacts during the contact sync process.

Updated the group list to appear sorted on the contact mapping "Gmail groups" tab.

Corrected issue with the gSyncit link on the Program menu launching the install process.

Added Uninstall link to the Program menu.

Corrected "object reference not found" error reported by some users when using the contact photo sync option. This issue occurs as a result of a defect with the contact record and/or Outlook. gSyncit asks Outlook if the contact record contains a photo and this error is returned rather than the true/false response that is expected.

Corrected issue with the Outlook appointment default status option on the calendar mapping dialog not taking affect when updating Outlook events from the Google calendar.

Corrected issue where duplicate Gmail contact records would be created when the Outlook contact company name field contains spaces after the company name.

Corrected issue where Google returns a "bad request" error when attempting to update the contact IM Address field an Outlook IM address containing only spaces.

Added a configuration option to control if gSyncit is to populate the Gmail contact name field with the company name when the name field is empty. In prior versions this happens automatically whereby when gSyncit is updating the Gmail contact and Outlook full name is empty then gSyncit will set the Gmail contact name to the company name.

This change was added a while back to resolve sync issues with G1 devices where if the contact does not contain a name then it would not appear on a G1. This issue was also reported on an iPhone.

This option is now DISABLED by default but can be enabled via the contact mapping options tab by selecting the option to "Set Gmail contact name to company name when name field is empty."

Fix for issue where gSyncit was incorrectly resetting the "protocol" assigned to an IM Address in a gmail contact entry on a sync. Since Outlook does not have a matching type gSyncit will retain the the Gmail IM Address type setting.

Corrected "object reference not found" error when selecting the Gmail groups tab when an invalid username/password is entered.

Corrected "object reference not found" while updating Google contacts.

Added option to enable/disable syncing public events. Now it is possible sync only public OR private events between Outlook and Google calendars.

Added option to set the default appointment status for Outlook events.

Added option to set the default appointment visibility to new AND existing events.


 

Corrected error "The remote server returned an error: (400) Bad Request. phone number must not be empty." which is caused when the phone number contains only characters or empty spaces and no numbers.

Added fix for Outlook 2003 and exchange based contacts and appointment attendee addresses not syncing as SMTP addresses to Google.  This fix only works when Outlook is NOT using "cache mode".

Added fix for "Index was outside the bounds of the array" when processing recurring events. The issue is caused by an extra semi-colon added to the end of the recurrence pattern rule.

Fixed limitation issue where the number of available Gmail groups displayed on the contacts setting dialog was limit of 30. Now all available Gmail groups are displayed.   

Fixed issue where gSyncit created a duplicate Outlook contact when it was unable to match up Google contacts with Outlook contacts that only contained company information and had an empty full name.

Added fix for exchange based contacts and appointment attendee addresses not syncing as SMTP addresses to Google.

Added option to set the default visibility type (public/private/confidential) when creating new items in the Google or Outlook calendar.

Added option to always set the default status type (busy/free) when creating new items in the Google or Outlook calendar.

Added option allowing the status and visibility to always be set for appointments written to the Google calendar. For example, this option allows events to _always_ be marked as private and/or busy whenever they are synced from Outlook to a Google calendar. In prior versions items could be marked as private but only when they were created and not updated. This resolves an issue where a public item in Outlook would be synced to Google calendar as a private on the first sync. If the item was ever updated the visibility would switch back to public.

Added option to ignore the gmail "System Group:" prefix when syncing group names with Outlook categories. For example, "System Group: Friends" will sync with Outlook categories as "Friends".

Corrected issue where deleted occurrences from a recurring event in Outlook were not properly synchronized with the Google calendar. 

Corrected recurrence parsing error for events that occur by a specific weekday and the numeric instance is undefined in the recurrence pattern. For example, BYDAY=SU.

Corrected issue where when two or more Outlook contacts with the same organization name but no email addresses would be deleted after a sync. gSyncit incorrectly viewed the Outlook contacts a single contact causing the other instances to be removed.

Added ability to select the default status type when adding new items to the Google calendar.

Updated calendar sync options dialog to better group available options

Added Appointment default options tab (for future use)

Corrected issue where a contact record was incorrectly deleted when an error occurred while synchronizing the entry.

Corrected bug that preventing turning off the sync of extended contact fields.

Corrected bug where birthday and anniversary's appear with 1855 in Outlook as the year and when birthdays/anniversary dates are undefined or removed. 

Added additional fields to the gmail notes field to include birthday, spouse,  anniversary, manager, assistant, office, profession, nickname. This feature can be enabled/disabled using the option to enable/disable extended Outlook properties. 

Corrected a reported issue with yearly recurring by month day not updating to the Outlook calendar properly. (e.g. third Friday of the month).

Added option to disable the sync of reminder information.

Updated the contact sync process to set the Gmail contact first name to the company name when a first/last name is undefined. This option was added to address contacts not appearing on the iPhone when a Gmail contact does not contain a first/last name.

Added tooltips to the settings dialogs for various fields.

Improved performance by only loading Google contact group information when using the gmail groups feature.

Corrected issue with the recently added birthday information written to the gmail group which would show 1/1/4501 as the birthday when a birthday as not set in Outlook.

Corrected reported issue where gSyncit incorrectly removes items from gmail groups when using the new gmail groups feature and corrected issue where Outlook items are not properly assigned to gmail groups when multiple groups are selected.

Added birthday, spouse, and anniversary information to gmail contact notes when there are no notes defined.

Corrected "The message you specified cannot be found" error during the sync process.

Corrected "(404) not found" error during the contact sync process.

Added option to sync Gmail contact groups assignments with Outlook categories within a single contact feed mapping. This removes the need to create a different contact feed configuration for each group and configure the Outlook category filter/assignment feature when synchronizing different Outlook categories with Gmail contact groups.

On the contact feed mapping there is a new tab called "Gmail groups" that allows the selection of groups to sync with Outlook contacts. Gmail group names are assigned to Outlook contacts as categories when the Gmail contact is added/updated in the Outlook contact list. When Outlook items are assigned to the categories matching these group names then the matching Gmail contact will be assigned to the corresponding group(s).  This feature should not be mixed with the options on the 'Outlook Categories' tab and should only be used with the Gmail 'All Contacts' list.

 

Corrected issue where if categories are added to the list of categories for contact mapping and the option "Don't filter by category" is selected the specified categories are still assigned to Outlook contacts.

Corrected "could not open item. try again" during the sync process.

Corrected issue with reminder times not being set correctly for recurring events and exceptions when they are added to the Google calendar for the first time.

Added support for using zlib compression when communicating with Google to reduce the amount of data transferred to/from Google. This option is available on the connection panel on the settings dialog.

Corrected issue with proxy settings not being applied during the registration process immediately after being configured. The user would need to restart gSyncit fro the settings to take affect.

Corrected issue were if Outlook connectivity with an exchange server is lost during the sync process calendar events could inadvertently be deleted as gSyncit thinks the item was deleted.

Added option to select if Calendar and/or Contacts are synced as part of the automatic sync process.

Corrected issue where providing invalid proxy settings could cause gSyncit to fail on startup.

Corrected issues with the product uninstall link on the program menu.

Corrected issues where contact feed settings are not saved when there are no calendar feeds configured.

Updated the Category selection for each contact and calendar feed to automatically add a category to the category list when selected from the dropdown. This feature is only available to Outlook 2007. The list of categories in older versions of Outlook cannot be returned which is why this list is not populated with these versions of Outlook. Categories must still be manually entered in.

Corrected minor spelling errors and also corrected minor configuration issue when using only contact sync. Most users use both calendar and contact sync but some just want to sync contacts. Prior versions required that the calendar feed mapping exist but be disabled. I remove this limitation and now all calendar feeds can be removed for the contact sync to work.

Corrected issues synchronizing reminder times from Outlook to Google. In prior releases of gSyncit and Google calendar only a limited number of reminders were supported. Google has expanded this list and gSyncit has been updated to support this change.

Corrected 403 issue during sync when gSyncit attempts to update an invite appointment in the Google calendar that has not been accepted.

Corrected 'object reference not found' error when updating the Outlook calendar with a Google event that does not contain a transparency value.

Corrected 'object reference not found' error when updating the Outlook calendar with a Google event that does not contain a location value.

Corrected error updating the Outlook calendar when attempting to change the days of the week for a recurring item that occurs every year on the last day of a month.

Corrected an issue that started recently where updating a contact photo would sometimes causes a "(412) Precondition Failed" error.

Corrected a reported issue updating Google participant information returning a "Object reference not found" error.

Corrected issue with updating Google contacts returning "Object reference not found" error when a users configuration is invalid.

Corrected a display issue where "All Contacts" did not appear on the contact feed mapping list when "All Contacts" was selected for a feed.

Rebuild of v1.14.8 with all components reporting the same version. In v1.14.8 some components report a version of v1.14.7 causing the notice for a product update to always appear when starting gSyncit.

Corrected 400 error when updating a Google event with an Outlook event that contains attendees belonging to a distribution list. gSyncit currently does not support handing attendees that are distribution lists.

Corrected issue with the reminder time not being set when inserting a new event into the Google calendar. This is actually a defect with the Google calendar but I've implemented a work around until this issue is resolved.

Corrected issue where deleting recurring items from the Outlook calendar were not properly deleted from the Google calendar. 

Corrected typo on the contact configuration dialog which indicates contacts would removed from the 'My Contacts' instead of 'All Contacts' groups when deleted.

Corrected issue processing recurring items that contains a set of values followed by a delimited (e.g. BYMONTHDAY=1,2. This caused a parsing error when updating an event in the Outlook calendar.  

Corrected "(403) Forbidden" error when updating event participants in the Google calendar. This error occurred as a result of gSyncit attempting to update the participants of an appointment that the current account does not own.

Corrected minor issue with the gSyncit tray icon reporting an exception when exiting.

Corrected issue after upgrading from an older version of gSyncit where the library "Google.GData.Client.dll" could not be loaded.

Corrected "(403) Forbidden" error when updating event participants in the Google calendar.

Added support for Google's v2 contact functionality enabling access to My Contacts, Friends, Family, and Coworker system contact groups.

Added support for Google's latest functionality for handing contact photos.

Removed several unused features from the configuration to make setup simpler.

Improved ability to match existing Google contacts with existing Outlook contacts.

Corrected issues with the continue on error feature during the contact sync process.

Added basic calendar event participant/attendee synchronization.

Added multiple Outlook profile support allowing gSyncit to manage configurations for each Outlook profile. Automatic sync with multiple Outlook profiles is not supported. 

Improved the contact sync speed when communicating with Google.

Added Uninstall option to the gSyncit program menu

Resolved issues with gSyncit deleting contacts after clicking the cancel button during a contact sync.

Added option to sync basic appointment attendee/participant information. Status information is not synced, only participant email/names are synchronized.