Windows 10: Calendar and Contacts on Google account without Gmail service won't sync with Microsoft...

On a previous version of Windows 10, or a previous release of the Windows 10 Calendar/Mail/People apps, I could synchronize my Google Calendar and Google Contacts with my Windows 10 Calendar, People and Mail apps—even when my Google account was never set up with Gmail service enabled. I used a non-Gmail email address to create the Google account.


On my Surface Go, which was set up to do this a couple years ago, this functionality persisted through Windows and app updates. However, any attempt to set up syncing the same way on other Windows 10 computers, after some unknown date, has been unsuccessful. The Google account will properly add, even confirming 2FA before completing with a success notice, but it will not actually sync anything. There are no errors or notices. Google Calendars do not load within the Windows 10 Calendar app, and Google Contacts never load within the Windows 10 People app or Mail app. The line which normally displays the "Last sync" date under the account details within the People app settings is blank. Forcing a sync by right-clicking the account does nothing. After deleting the account and re-adding it to my Surface Go which previously synced properly for a couple years, it now behaves the same way and will not sync anything.


Enabling Gmail service by adding an arbitrary @gmail.com email address to the Google account, and then adding the account to Windows again with the arbitrary @gmail.com address, works properly as expected.


To reproduce this:

1. Create a Google account using an email address which is not part of the Gmail domain. *** Email address is removed for privacy ***
2. Create some events on the Google Calendar and some contacts within the Google Contacts.
3. Add this Google account to either the Windows 10 People, Calendar, or Mail apps, or within the Windows Settings under "Email & Accounts."
   • Disable syncing for "Email," and leave only "Calendar" and "Contact" syncing, since there is no email service for the Google account.
4. Attempt to view any calendar events or contacts associated with the new, Gmail-less account within Windows 10 Calendar, People, or Mail apps.

To work around the issue:

• Add an arbitrary @gmail.com email address to the Google account to enable Gmail service.

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Google account (mail / calendar) not syncing in Windows 10

I'm having a problem with the default Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 10. For a while I was able to sync my Google account emails (Gmail) and calendar in those apps, but about a week ago, it has stopped working: the calendar is empty (no events, and no calendars listed), and the emails that were already synced are still there, but syncing doesn't bring any new email.

I tried deleting my Google account from the mail (or calendar) app, by going to "settings -> accounts", and then re-creating the account. I did that three times. Each time I was able to complete the following steps:

1. enter my Gmail address,
   
2. then my Google account password,
   
3. then the confirmation code sent by SMS,
   
4. and finally got to the screen "Windows would like to..." (permissions listing), on which I clicked "Accept" (obviously).
   

The first time, I then got a Windows message "Something went wrong", followed by an error code (I didn't write it down).

The second time, I didn't get this error message, so it looked like the account was successfully created (it appeared in my accounts list in the settings of those apps), but nothing was synced: both apps (mail / calendar) remained empty. (I tried syncing manually by clicking the sync button in the mail app: still nothing, even though the app confirmed that it was "up to date".)

For my third attempt, I had found this question, so I went and created an "app password" in my Google account, specifically for those apps. But when I got to the password screen (step 2 described above) and entered this app password instead of my regular account password, I got an error message (from Google) asking me to enter my account password and not an app password. So I did that, and that got me exactly the same result as my second attempt (account created but nothing synced).

I also tried both answers given on the same question (first via "settings > accounts > add account > Other account", and second via "settings > accounts > add account > Advanced setup"), but none of them worked for me (again, account created but nothing synced).

Has anyone experienced the same problems? How can I make this work?

UPDATE: a few months back (early October 2015) I received an email from Microsoft inviting me to "reconnect to Google" (that was the title of the email). I ignored it for a while, but recently followed the steps in this email and now everything seems to be working fine. So I'm guessing that MS somehow fixed whatever bug it was.

 

App to sync Outlook Calendar and Contacts to Android device.

What service are you keeping your calendar and contacts with? If using google/gmail or iCloud, you will always have to use something as "Man In The Middle". Look up IFTTT.

Can't sync calendar and contacts with my phone or tablet - Office Support

 

Google account (mail / calendar) not syncing in Windows 10

First confirm if you have two step authentication in you Google account.
If YES follow these steps:

To have the Windows Mail app to work you have to generate a password for the Windows Mail app in your Google account at Anmelden – Google Konten
Copy/paste this password into the password field of your Gmail account in the Mail app Settings/Accounts/Gmail
This needs to be done only once.

Also check in Windows 10 Settings/Privacy if you have in Contacts AND Calender the Mail and Agenda allowed access ON
If both are OFF the Mail app won't sync without throwing any error!!
Just one off the many bugs in Mail app!