The Missing Link - Use Microsoft Outlook with Google Apps for email, contacts, and calendar

I have been a strong advocate of using Google Apps for business but it lacked a major feature which was of using Outlook as a full fledged client. Well they seem to have fixed this with the release of Google Apps Sync for Microsoft Outlook.

Now you can use outlook to sync all your emails, calendar, & contacts. I am not sure yet whether you can sync notes or tasks. I will soon find out and post an update.

With the release of an offline mode and now this, Google Apps seems to have turned a full circle.

Update : In case that just made you think about deploying Google Apps in your organisation, here a link that can help.

Update 2 : I cannot confirm whether it can sync tasks/notes. I guess they would get added once Gmail itself has notes (it does have Tasks though).