Sync ICS published calendar to main Outlook calendar
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Are you already using OGCS?
2.10.3.0
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I currently have an ICS calendar that receives periodic and very sporadic updates. I want these events to always be on my main Outlook calendar. I can only find a way in Outlook to add this ICS URL calendar as a separate calendar. Lots of google results about how to accomplish this task, but could not find any solutions.
I added the ICS to my Google calendar, and setup Sync to my main outlook calendar - this worked except Google will only poll ICS calendars once every 24 hours. No workaround, no way to manually trigger. When an update is made to the calendar, I need to pull it into my main one within an hour or two.
I think it would work to add this ICS calendar to Outlook, sync it to a Google Calendar, and then sync the Google Calendar receiving the sync back to my main calendar. This seems very cumbersome and inefficient. Any other suggestions?
I can't vouch for it personally as I've not tried it, but I have seen a Google App Scripts FOSS project that will force Google to update ICS feeds more often (by polling the ICS URL and copying the items into your Google calendar): https://github.com/derekantrican/GAS-ICS-Sync
You could then use OGCS to sync to Outlook as you were originally describing.