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Syncing Salesforce Calendar with Outlook using Apex

Hi All,

I am currently trying to find a way to sync my Salesforce Calendar with an Outlook account using Apex but am having no luck searching online for help. Has anyone found a way to link the salesforce calendar and an outlook account together using apex? I am not interested in downloading an App off AppExchange as I trying to figure this out for a project. 
 
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Free tool to Sync Salesforce events with Outlook or Google Calendar

Hi all,
I'm in a big trouble trying to find such a tool. Anyone knows a tool or a workaroud to do that?  The only thing I've thinked is using a trigger when an event is created that does somithing to emule sending an invite, like this: 
public class SendEmail {
    public String sendTo { get; set; }
    public String Subject { get; set; }
    public Event objEvent{get;set;}
    public SendEmail() {}
    public sendInvite() {
        Messaging.SingleEmailMessage mail = new Messaging.SingleEmailMessage();
        String[] toAddresses = new String[] {sendTo};
        mail.setToAddresses(toAddresses);
        mail.setSubject(Subject);
        mail.setPlainTextBody('');
        Messaging.EmailFileAttachment attach = new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment();
        attach.filename = 'meeting.ics';
        attach.ContentType = 'text/calendar;';
        attach.inline = true;
        attach.body = invite();
        mail.setFileAttachments(new Messaging.EmailFileAttachment[] {attach});
        Messaging.SendEmailResult[] er = Messaging.sendEmail(new Messaging.Email[] {mail});
        return null;
    }
    private Blob invite() {
        String txtInvite = '';
 
        txtInvite += 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR\n';
        txtInvite += 'PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook 12.0 MIMEDIR//EN\n';
        txtInvite += 'VERSION:2.0\n';
        txtInvite += 'METHOD:PUBLISH\n';
        txtInvite += 'X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE\n';
        txtInvite += 'BEGIN:VEVENT\n';
        txtInvite += 'CLASS:PUBLIC\n';
        txtInvite += 'CREATED:20150709T083709Z\n';
        txtInvite += 'DTEND:20150709T010000Z\n';
        txtInvite += 'DTSTAMP:20150708T203709Z\n';
        txtInvite += 'DTSTART:20150709T000000Z\n';
        txtInvite += 'LAST-MODIFIED:20150708T203709Z\n';
        txtInvite += 'LOCATION:Online\n';
        txtInvite += 'PRIORITY:5\n';
        txtInvite += 'SEQUENCE:0\n';
        txtInvite += 'SUMMARY;';
        txtInvite += 'LANGUAGE=en-us:Meeting\n';
        txtInvite += 'TRANSP:OPAQUE\n';
        txtInvite += 'UID:4036587160834EA4AE7848CBD028D1D200000000000000000000000000000000\n';
        txtInvite += 'X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"><HTML><HEAD><META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 08.00.0681.000"><TITLE></TITLE></HEAD><BODY><!-- Converted from text/plain format --></BODY></HTML>\n';
        txtInvite += 'X-MICROSOFT-CDO-BUSYSTATUS:BUSY\n';
        txtInvite += 'X-MICROSOFT-CDO-IMPORTANCE:1\n';
        txtInvite += 'END:VEVENT\n';
        txtInvite += 'END:VCALENDAR';
 
        return Blob.valueOf(txtInvite);
    }
}

If no tool is available, is there a way to automate this process? Thanks!