How to Connect Google Calendar to Microsoft Teams in Windows 11

Connect Google Calendar to Microsoft Teams

This article explains how to connect your Google calendar to Microsoft Teams in Windows 11.

The Microsoft Teams app is a communication platform that helps bring people together to get things done. Users can set up meetings, chats, video calls, communities, and more.

When you sign in with a Microsoft account, the default calendar that Teams connects to is your Outlook calendar. You can connect your Google calendar to Teams instead if you have a Google account.

When you connect a Google calendar, it will replace the current Outlook calendar. Events on your Outlook calendar will not be synced to your Google calendar. You can use only one calendar at a time and have to disconnect Google calendar to use your Outlook calendar.

There are several reasons why someone might want to switch their calendar in Outlook to a Google calendar. One reason could be that they prefer using Google’s calendar features over Outlook’s. Another reason could be that they have multiple calendars across different platforms and want to consolidate them into one Teams calendar.

Additionally, if someone primarily uses Google’s suite of productivity tools, it may make more sense for them to use a Google calendar within Teams.

Switch to Google calendar in Microsoft Teams

As mentioned above, users can connect their Google calendar to Microsoft Teams. If you use Google’s suite of productivity tools, it may make more sense for them to use a Google calendar within Teams.

Here’s how to do that.

First, launch the app by clicking the Start menu and selecting it on the All Apps list.

Turn on or off automatically starting Microsoft Teams

You can also launch the app from the Taskbar or Taskbar overflow.

Turn on or off automatically starting Microsoft Teams

The Teams mini window app will open when you launch it at first. Click the expansion button on the menu bar to open the full Teams window.

Turn on or off automatically starting Microsoft Teams

Click the Settings and more ( …) button next to your profile picture in the full Teams window and select Settings on the menu.

Turn on or off automatically starting Microsoft Teams

On the Settings page, select the Calendar tab on the left. On the right, select the Google calendar tile. Then click the Connect button to connect it.

Connect Google Calendar to Microsoft Teams

When prompted whether you want to use Google calendar, confirm to proceed.

Connect Google Calendar to Microsoft Teams

When you confirm, it will open your browser to prompt you to connect to your Google account and allow Teams to manage your calendar and other services.

When you approve, the Google calendar should now be the default in Microsoft Teams.

Exit the Team app when you are done.

That should do it!

Conclusion:

This post showed you how to connect Google calendar to Microsoft Teams. If you find any errors above or have something to add, please use the comments form below.

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Richard

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