Google-apps – Auto add invitations to shared Google calendar

Google are beginning to transition Google Apps accounts to full accounts. My domain just went through this transition and now I have access to most Google services using my Google Apps account. Previously I used to have an alex@mydomain.com Google Apps account and a google@mydomain.com Google account - it got rather annoying after a while!

I outlined in this post which services transition across and how. The main ones I don't seem to have access to are:

• Google Buzz - I get a 404 Page Not Found when going to http://buzz.google.com when logged in
• Google Profile - I think this is linked to the above.

(Google have a bit about these two here)

I also seem unable to share items in Google Reader - which Google know about it seems.

There's a bit more info from Google here and here, but I'm not sure if you can initiate the transition before they issue you with an invitation...

So, there's no way for you to change which of your calendars is the default. However, a fairly simple workaround is to import a new calendar that has all of the events from your default calendar. And then remove all the events from the default. So, that way, when you get invites, you can name the default calendar your Invites or Events or something.

To do this:

1. Go to your default calendar's settings
2. Click the ICAL option for the Private Address and save the .ics file to your computer
3. Create a new calendar
4. Click the Add dropdown and select Import Calendar
5. Select the .ics file you just saved, and import it to the new calendar you just created

Voila! Now you have a new calendar with the original events and you can delete all the things off your default and let it only have the invitation events.