FIX: Corrected issue with photo sync process where when a Outlook contact contains a specific attachment type causes a failure syncing the contact photo to Gmail.

FIX: Corrected issue with Outlook contact photo image scaling when transferred to the Gmail contact. This scaling logic is no longer required by Gmail.  

FIX: Corrected issue with the enable/disable check boxes for mappings not being saved when the settings dialog is closed.

FEATURE: Sync Outlook tasks with Google events using the reminder date/time!

Added option that allows syncing the Outlook task reminder date with a Google event start date/time.

When enabled, if an Outlook task has a reminder date/time set then this is used to set the Google event start date/time. A reminder is also set on the Google event 1 minute before the start of the Google event.

If a Google event occurs at a specific time (not all day) then the event start date/time is used to set the Outlook task start AND reminder date/time when synced from a Google event to an Outlook task.

FIX: Corrected issue in the Google client libraries used by gSyncit that prevented a more detailed error from being returned when using g-zip compression for faster communication with Google services.

FIX: Corrected issue where syncing a reminder time larger than 4 weeks causes an error during the sync of calendar events. Google does not support reminders of more than 4 weeks. gSyncit will sync the reminder using the maximum allowable Google reminder time when the Outlook reminder exceeds 4 weeks.

FIX: Improved the option with the sync on startup so that Outlook does not freeze for a moment when Outlook is still loading and gSyncit attempts to access Outlook information.

PARTIAL FIX: Corrected a recently discovered issue where syncing yearly recurring events to the Google calendar causes a java script error on the Google calendar interface. gSyncit has been updated to try to work around some of this issue. The issue still exists for creating yearly events that occur on the Nth weekday of the month. A Google calendar defect has been filed for this issue. 

http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2013

FIX: Corrected several reported typo's on the configuration/settings dialog.

FIX: Corrected issue using the category sync option to _not_ sync items assigned to a specified Outlook category. In prior versions when a previously synced item is later assigned to category that should not be synced the item was not properly deleted from Google calendars/contacts/documents. This fix addresses this issue such that when a previously synced item is assigned to a group that should be _excluded_ from the sync then the Google item is now deleted.

FIX: Corrected issue where the Outlook profile selection dialog was not properly appearing when the gSyncit tray app was loaded. This caused the tray app to return an error when attempt to access settings outside of Outlook. This error caused the following dialog to appear when attempting to access settings from the gSyncit tray app.
 

UPDATE: Added the ability to set the default contact address selecting in Outlook when update a contact.

UPDATE: Added the ability to enable/disable mappings from the main mapping listing panel to avoid have to open each mapping and use enabled checkbox option.

UPDATE: Updated the calendar/contact/note/task mapping list to clearly show the account name as part of the Google path information so that it is easier to see which Google account is being used.
 

UPDATE: Moved the import/export options from the dialog menu to buttons on the settings dialog to make it easier for users to import/export settings.

UPDATE: Added multi-select option for deletes to make handling multiple delete operations easier to manage.


 

UPDATE: Added "Normal" as one of the available visibility options when importing items from the Google calendar. This allows the visibility for Google items to be overridden when written to the Outlook calendar and appear as "Normal".

UPDATE: Added support for syncing task reminders with Google calendar events. This includes being able to turn on/off the reminder sync and setting the default reminder type when creating Google events.

UPDATE: Changed the order that task fields are synced with Google events. Since most users seem to set the Status and Important value more often these values have been moved to the top. The fields are listed as follows...

Status: Complete
Importance: High
PercentComplete: 100
DateCompleted: 4/28/2010 12:00:00 AM
ActualWork: 1
TotalWork: 2
Complete: True
Status: Complete

UPDATE: Added option to the calendar defaults allowing for the default reminder type to be applied to new AND existing items allowing new and existing items to have the same reminder type.

UPDATE: Added dialog to the mappings when clicking OK that indicates all items associated with the mapping will be re-synced. This reset process has always occurred. Ading this this dialog simply makes this event know to the user and helps explain why the sync takes a long time after changing settings.

CHANGE: Set the default g-zip compression option on the communications options to false. For many users having this option turned on caused '(400) Bad Request' errors during the sync. This option works under a normal network configuration. However, in a corporate network this option tends to cause problems. Additionally, when this option is on certainly details of a '(400)' bad request error are not displayed that is otherwise helpful to diagnose this error.

FIX: Corrected issue where the category for Outlook 2002 and 2003 users was not displaying correctly when using the drop-down list to select a Outlook category.

FIX: Corrected issue with contact name matching where if the Gmail contact name contains a space at the end of the name it would fail to match with an existing Outlook contact.

FIX: Corrected recurring event time zone sync issues with users in Tokyo. gSyncit incorrectly set the time zone to "Asia/Tokyov". 

FIX: Corrected '(400) Bad Request' error when any user defined Gmail contact fields were populated with empty spaces from an Outlook contact. For example, if the Outlook field 'Office Location' contains a value of a single space character then the Google contact service returns a 400 error. 

FIX: Corrected issue where user is unable to abort the sync during delete operations that occur at the end of the calendar sync process.

CHANGE: Updated the error messages to include additional Google error information to help diagnose Google related errors. 

FIX: Corrected reported '(417) Precondition Failed' errors during the calendar sync process.

CHANGE: Moved options from the connection settings panel to a new 'General' settings panel.

CHANGE: Added new configuration option to assist Outlook to exit to resolve issues where Outlook remains running in the background as a result of gSyncit being loaded into Outlook. This basically includes some of the "smarts" of the Shutdown Addin product into gSyncit.

FIX: Corrected reporting issue where users in countries not using AM / PM indicator encountered incorrect delete requests for items that occurred at the start or end date specified for a sync date/day range. Events that occurred before 12:00PM on the start of the sync range and events that occurred after 12:00PM at the end of the sync range would trigger a prompt for deletion. To work around this issue simply set a AM and PM indicator on the windows date/time settings. This fix no longer requires this work around. 

FIX: Corrected issue where events from Google to Outlook that have the same start date/time and subject were not correctly being synced to the Outlook calendar. The first event would sync correctly while all others would be incorrectly marked for deletion. 

FIX: Corrected "The recurrence pattern is not valid." when setting the MonthOfYear on an Outlook event. This error typically occurs when updating birthday type events using a specific recurrence structure.

CHANGE: Added the the ability to reset sync history by mapping type rather than having to reset the sync history for all mapping types.

CRITICAL CONTACT CATEGORY/GMAIL GROUP SYNC ISSUE - Resolved reported issue with syncing Gmail groups with Outlook categories related to a change recently made to the Google Gmail contact service.

gSyncit uses a URI (e.g. 'http://www.gmail.com/....') path as a Gmail group identifier. Until recently this identifier included a protocol reference that matched the same protocol used to access Gmail based on the contact mapping Google account settings. For example, when using SSL (secured connection) the Gmail group identifier would be returned with the "https" protocol specification. It was recently discovered that this is no longer the case and the "http" protocol specification is now being returned for SSL based requests.

The net result is that this change is breaking gSyncit's ability to sync Gmail contact groups with Outlook categories. gSyncit is attempting to match the group identifiers assigned to a Gmail contact with those returned from the main Gmail group list to obtain the group name that is then used to set the Outlook category. Being that the protocols between the value returned from the GMail contact group assignment and then Gmail group list no longer match gSyncit cannot properly determine the Gmail contact group assignment causing issues with the Gmail group/Outlook category syncing.

To resolve this issue gSyncit now excludes the protocol specification from the Gmail group identifier.

In researching this issue I found a related posting from Google that notes this exact issue but for contact IDs. Fortunately gSyncit does not rely on protocol information for contact identifies since v2.1 was released. However, the change noted in the posting proposed for March 31st matches the exact change that was noticed March 28th. I can only guess that Google made this change to the group functionality without notice.

http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/apps-apis/thread?tid=1cc6d99077e5a34b
  
  

CORRECTION - Resolved reported issue where when gSyncit is installed recently used email address information was not retained when Outlook was closed.

ENHANCEMENT - Added the ability to sync Outlook user defined properties with a Gmail contact. This option is disabled by default and allows for syncing user defined properties for Outlook contacts with user defined Gmail contact properties. This change allows users switching from the Palm/Outlook sync to Droid/Outlook/Google sync to retain all information in Gmail that the Palm sync adds to Outlook contacts and any other applications that use Outlook contact user defined fields.

ENHANCEMENT - Added additional Outlook fields to the contact sync process. These fields include User1, User2, User3, User4, CustomerId, ReferredBy, GovernmentId, and BillingInfo. These fields will appear in a Gmail contact a user defined values. Additionally, Outlook contact car and fax phone numbers have been added to the sync logic.

ENHANCEMENT - Changed the default connection options to use keep-alive to help improve connection speed with Google.

ENHANCEMENT - Updating the logging functionality to help increase the speed of the sync process. 

FIX - Corrected issue where Outlook contacts are missing the full name when being updated from a Gmail contact that has a company and name that are the same.

AUTO UPDATE SETTING ISSUE - Corrected reported issue that turning _off_ the check for updates does work and gSyncit continues to prompt for updates when available.

CONFIGURATION ISSUE -  Corrected  issue where the option to only sync uncategorized options was being incorrectly reset when loading the settings dialog.

FREE/BUSY EVENT ISSUE - Corrected issue where newly created Google free/busy events were created with a start date/time of the current date/time.

CONTACT COUNTRY INFO - Corrected issue where gSyncit was not properly syncing country with Gmail contacts.

RECURRING EVENT ISSUE - Addressed a reported issue where occasionally a non-recurring item in Outlook would turn into a Weekly recurring item. I'm still not exactly clear on why this randomly happens but I hope this fix does the trick. The "fix" simply clears the outlook recurrence state when Google event is not marked as recurring.  

PRECONDITION FAILED - Corrected issue related to 412 errors when duplicate contacts exist in Gmail. I thought this issue has been resolved in prior versions but this appears to be a defect in the Gmail contact service. If the same contact is updated multiple times very quickly the Google service will return this error. I was able to work around this bug by disabling the Google concurrency checking and forcing gSyncit to always replace the existing Gmail contact as it should.  

SYNC PERFORMANCE - Reduced logged information to resolve reported performance issues with the sync process. Even with the reduced the logged information it appears that Google response time slows down as the number of contacts in Gmail increases. As the number of contacts exceeds 100 it appears to take about 1-2 seconds to insert/update a contact record. Based on an average of 1 seconds per contact this means that 1000 contacts will take about 15 minutes to sync over a fast network connection.

DUPLICATE REMOVAL OPTION - Added configuration option to calendar, contact, task, and note mappings to allow gSyncit to delete any duplicate items. The default option is to not remove duplicates. In v2.1.4 support was added to allow for duplicates but apparently people actually liked that gSyncit cleaned up duplicates in prior versions so I've added an option to turn this functionality back on.

SYNC ONLY UNCATEGORIZED ITEMS - Added configuration option to calendar, contact, task, and note mappings to allow only syncing Outlook items that are NOT assigned to any categories. Any item that does not contain a category will get synced. This option allows uncategorized items to easily be synced to a different calendar from those items assigned to a category.

SUPPORT FOR DUPLICATE ITEMS - Added support for duplicate calendar, contact, notes and task entries. In prior versions gSyncit would attempt to delete any duplicate entries and someone contributed to 400 and 412 errors during the contact sync process. No harm was done to any data since the deleted items were duplicates and most users were able to work around this issue by manually removing the duplicates.  

Duplicates records also caused delete requests at the end of the sync to remove the duplicate items. After recent delete issues with the calendar these delete requests gave users a bit of a scare and questioned the validity of the calendar sync process when all it was doing was removing duplicates.
 
Now that gSyncit supports duplicate entries this should no longer be an issue, however, it is recommend to avoid duplicate entries when possible.

gSyncit will match entries between Outlook and Google to avoid creating duplicates. However, if duplicate records existed in one location and only one record existed in the other then gSyncit would map all the duplicates to a single record. At the end of the sync gSyncit would remove all the "extra" duplicates which is why users are seeing the delete dialog appear during the sync. To validate this when the delete dialog appears check the Outlook or Google location where the item is going to be deleted and you _should_ see duplicate items.

In v2.1.4 these extra delete dialogs should no longer occur now how gSyncit will allow for duplicate entries. This was actually something that Gmail did not support and was never an issue during the sync process. It appears that Google has changed their policy and now allow for duplicate Gmail entries. Gmail also includes a nice feature to merge duplicates which may be of use to many. 

IMPROVED UPDATES NOTIFICATION - Updates the sync process to check for any critical updates before perform the sync process so that users can be alerted to any critical sync issues before syncing. Critical updates will direct the user to a webpage with details on any issues and halt the sync process.

Just after gSyncit checks the internet connect it then checks for any software updates and or critical notices. If a critical update is available then the the sync process is halted and the user is redirected to a web page with information on why the sync process has been halted. If an update is available the user is prompted for the update.

This notification process will interrupt and suspend the automatic sync process by design given that software updates are consider critical and should be applied as soon as possible before data is synced.

My goal here is to be able to "pause" the network of gSyncit users as soon when I am alerted to any issues with the sync process. I will keep it "paused" until I can provide a fix or provide guidance to help protect user data.

Corrected the contact delete dialog to properly show the company name or email address when a contact does not contain a full name. Currently there are cases where the delete prompt shows "Deleted Contact[]" which makes it difficult to determine which contact is being deleted.

Corrected delete related issue which caused a "(400)" and/or "(403)" error during the contact sync process.

Corrected "Index and length must refer to a location within the string. Parameter name: length" when an error is encountered. The actual error is captured in the log file but this error message is displayed to the user.

Updated the contact sync logic to prevent possible future delete issues with contacts. The contact sync uses the record id portion of the contact ID rather than the full URI.

Forced the option to check for product updates to be on. 

CRITICAL/MAJOR FIX - Resolved issue where calendar events were being deleted from the Outlook calendar after a recent change to the Google calendar services. gSyncit uses the URI to Google events as an identifier that includes the protocol used to access the event. When SSL mode is turned on the path notes the https protocol. Starting March 2, 2010 the event URI is being returned with the "http" protocol vs. the "https" protocol. When gSyncit performs a sync and reads Google events it fails to matches the "https" id with the "http" and considers the item to be deleted.

I have since updated gSyncit to use a different identification value for events that no longer requires using the event URI and protocol specification and an identifier.  

Correct "The property for the recurrence type is not valid. Verify your code." error when updating certainly yearly events that occur on a specific day of week during a specific month.

Correct performance issues related to syncing multiple Google accounts with the same Outlook contact and Notes folders. In prior releases items would incorrectly be updated when the item was not actually modified. 

Corrected reported 403 error that occurred when updating Google calendar events that were read-only.

Corrected issue syncing yearly events that occur on a specific month on days of the week (mon,tue,wed..) causing the error "The recurrence pattern is not valid." Notes below is an example of this recurrence pattern that failed to update into Outlook.

RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=1MO,1TU,1WE,1TH,1FR

Corrected issue which caused the Outlook security guard dialog to appear during automatic syncing.

Corrected reported "object reference not found error" when accessing the gSyncit settings from the gSyncit tray app while Outlook is not running.

Corrected issue changing the task prefix set on the task mapping. This value was not properly saved/restored when modified.

Rebuild to address Outlook security prompts with v2.0.33.

Corrected "object reference not found error" when accessing Gmail contact postal addresses.

Corrected issue deleting items when using a sync date range of one day.

Resolved reported issues where the sync process kicked off multiple times causing various sync issues. This issue was introduces in a previous beta version.

Minor update for syncing monthly recurring events from Google calendar.

Updated reported issues with auto sync with specified time frame.

Added last sync date to the settings dialog

Added option to sync tasks to Google calendar by Due Date only. The current default logic is by start date.

Updated calendar mappings to properly initialize settings for read-only Google calendars.

Added a retry process to reading documents from Google to resolve timeout issues when reading data from Google.

Corrected reported issue with the option to continue on error not working in all cases.

Minor internal update.

Corrected reported issue where the option to sync on Outlook exit was not consistently occurring.

Corrected minor issue with the verify connection button on the connection panel not reporting back correct status/error information.

Updated the check for updates prompt to take the user to the main v2.0 product updates / change log page.

Corrected issue with gSyncit not properly starting in the windows system tray and producing an error message on windows startup.

Corrected issues related to Outlook not closing on exit when gSyncit is installed.

Corrected "(403)" error when updating recurring events in the Google calendar that are part of a recurring event owned by another user. This error basically occurred when updating read-only recurring event exceptions. 

Corrected issue where duplicate contacts were created when using the option to set the Gmail contact full-name to company name. When this option was set gSyncit failed to match up Outlook contacts with existing Gmail contacts. Additionally, when gSyncit updated Outlook contacts the full name was incorrectly being set to the company name when this option was enabled.

Corrected reported issue were Gmail contacts were not being properly deleted after being deleted from Outlook. When the Outlook contact was deleted the delete would sync but the item would not be deleted from Gmail. If the item was deleted a second time it would finally be deleted from Gmail. This issue has now been resolved.

Corrected issue where when prompted to delete a contact containing only a company name the delete message showed the contact name as "[]" making it difficult to confirm the delete.

Corrected issue with the notes sync where continuing on error cased "object reference not found error".

Reduced the number of calls to Google when updating a contact photo. The extra calls were to work around issues with the Google contact service that have since been resolved by Google.

Updated the calendar sync logic such that if a Google event is marked as busy and an Outlook event is marked as Out-of-Office then the Outlook event will retain the Out-of-Office indicator when the Google event is synced to Outlook.

Added configuration allow existing contact photos to be overwritten. When this option is turned off then gSyncit will only update a contact photo if one does not already exist. When this option is turned off this will prevent existing contact photos from being updated/overwritten. To preserve Outlook contact photo image quality this option should be turned off.

Added configuration option to include/exclude Outlook tasks without a due date from the sync.


 

Improved the performance of the Outlook Notes / Google Document sync now that Google has resolved a defect that required gSyncit to use a workaround to cleanup duplicate documents after inserting a document.

Google had a defect where when a document was inserted Google would create a random number of duplicates of the document. gSyncit would then delete the duplicates. This delete process is no longer needed and has been removed.

Added sync details to the log that shows how many items were added, updated, delete, and read for the sync process.

Added option on the sync options settings panel to enable/disable loading gSyncit on windows startup. Optionally, right-clicking the gSyncit tray app and selecting auto start will stop gSyncit from loading at startup.  

Corrected a reported issue syncing Outlook tasks marked as repeating where they would not sync to Google Calendar in some cases.

Addressed "(417) Expectation Failed" by defaulting the "Expect 100-Continue on request responses" option to turned off for new installations. Recently Google made some change that has caused a number of users to start seeing this error with the same version of gSyncit that was working in the past. This solution is discussed on the gSyncit support page.

Corrected reported issue with the 'FileAs' option applied to the contact sync where duplicate items appear in the Outlook contact list due to a failure to match Gmail contacts with existing Outlook contact full names. If a Gmail contact name is last, first then gSyncit fails to match the Gmail contact with a full name of 'first last'

Updated the task mapping dialog to note that it is recommended that a dedicated Google task calendar be specified for storing tasks. Some users found this confusing and ended up syncing tasks to their main calendar causing a great deal of unexpected headaches.

Added option to the calendar and task settings to enable/disable allowing items to be deleted.

Corrected issue where a "just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box." message is displayed when the gSyncit error dialog has an error being created.

Updated the registration process to make it a little more clear about how to upgrade using a v1.0 product key in combination with an upgrade key.

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 reported error "You changed one of the recurrences of this item, and this instance no longer exists. Close any open items and try again." which occurred when updating recurring event exceptions. This issue was thought to have been resolved in the v2.0.17 release build but the change never made it into the official release.

Task Sync : Outlook Tasks <-> Google Calendar Sync. Added the ability to syncing of Outlook tasks with user defined Google Calendars.

Category drop-down list on the Category tab for each feed mappings now show all available categories when using Outlook XP and Outlook 2003.

Added "Out of Office" default to the available defaults that can be set when creating new Outlook events. Because Google does not offer a similar option and Outlook events marked as "Out of Office" will continue to be synced to Google calendar as "Busy".