Hello folks. I'll present my situation andmy question. For many years, personally and professionally, I've benefited from using MS Outlook and MS OneNote (a multimedia all-in-on project management Notebook) together for my calendar, tasks-lists, memos, contacts and other productivity/project management work (again, both work and personal). My use of Outlook has been enriched and made even more efficient the last year in incorporating MS OneNote more extensively into my day to day work and my weekly/semester-to semester planning. I have not used Outlook at any time with either a personal/individual or work-based/corporate Exchange Server. Instead, the last two years I have worked with Gsyncit, a third party software application, to keep my Outlook data on my personal/home computers in sync with my Outlook files on my work computer. Gsyncit uses Google Calendar/Toodledo Task-Manager and other web-based PIM (personal information management) platforms to push Outlook data between machines or to the third-party web based platforms (including Google calendar and contacts). I've been primarily using Blackberry smartphone devices because of their size and basics do it best PIM best--especially when interfaced with Outlook. I have also given the Android smartphone platform a couple months of use but have not enjoyed it as much as Blackberry or even the more recent Windows Phone OS. While Gsyncit worked well, most of the time, with calendar sync between Outlook on all machines and Gcalendar online, it made too many mistakes in terms of private/not-private, duplicates, etc. to be trusted in a professional environment. Recently (this last month) my university (Georgetown University in Washington, DC USA) has migrated the entire University's email/calendaring/contacts to Google Apps for Education. We are being encouraged to use the web interface for all of these items as well as taking advantage of the other elements of the GApps package. This is frustrating for me for a few reasons: 1) my primary productivity paradigm for professional and personal work is based in MS Outlook/OneNote combinations---and even more--not based in always working on productivity through a web-browser; 2) Google Apps, especially for education, have a lot of potential but two of the biggest missing pieces in them for me and many others are--sophisticated tasks/to-do management and memo/notes sets (rather than a trillion separate "docs"); 3) I much prefer the UI and the fuller PIM functionality of Outlook especially as it is a software client on each machine that can also be synced through web/Exchange servers. Four months ago, I started researching and pricing out paying for a personal/individual hosted Exchange provider (likely Intermedia or Sherweb) so I could keep my PIM data completely, securely and perfectly in sync across all my devices (work desktop, personal desktop, personal laptop, smartphone). I've given the Google Apps for Education web interface portal a good try the last three weeks but am really limited by the lack of a to-do/task management application in it that can be accessed easily offline and yet always pushed to all devices. So, with all that said, here is my singular question: If I commit to setting up (and paying for) a personal/individual hosted Exchange and use Outlook 2010 on my personal machines (Windows OS7) and Outlook 2011 on my work computers (Mac OSX), can I successfully incorporate my faculty email, calendar, contacts into my hosted Exchange Outlook usage--specifically bringing my Georgetown Google Apps for Education calendar into Outlook so that I can keep just one integrated calendar for professional/personal items--and mark/keep non-work things private in Outlook (and hence have them pushed to Gtown GApps servers as private, too)? Plain and simple, GApps--for my own professional productivity and also my personal preference--does not and currently can not measure up to MS Outlook through hosted Exchange especially when I pair it with OneNote synced across machines through MS's SkyDrive.

That's hard to do. I don't know if there's any third-party app that will synchronize the separate calendars.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."

That's hard to do. I don't know if there's any third-party app that will synchronize the separate calendars.Ed Crowley MVP "There are seldom good technological solutions to behavioral problems."