Connect to Outlook button is disabled in ribbon

I have a publishing site.
In this site I enabled feature "Team Collaboration Lists" which gave me the option to add "Calendar" web part in my publishing site page.
I added calendar web part but the button "Connect to Outlook" is disabled in ribbon. In fact all buttons under "Calendar" tab are disabled such as "Export to Excel", "Open with Access", "Edit List", "List
Settings etc.
I read somewhere that I need to enable feature "Offline Synchronization for External Lists" which I did but still "Connect to Outlook" is disabled.
I am logged in as Site Collection Administrator.
I have tried this in both IE and Chrome.
I am using SharePoint 2013 and Exchange 2010.
I know SharePoint 2013 can't sync with Exchange 2010 but at least the button should be enabled.
On this machine Outlook or any MS Office component is not installed. Could it be because of this?
Or may be I didn't add the correct calendar web part and there is some other calendar web part which can be synced with Outlook?

Yes, you need 32bit Office 2010 or 2013 installed on the client to enable those buttons.
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
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2 T/S or 483.000 ms/T
RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
RPCPing set Activity ID: {525717e5-441b-4a8e-8398-dc86d38852c7}
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
RPCPing set Activity ID: {408d806d-ed5a-4f96-8c3c-2446a1d48ad8}
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
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RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
RPCPing set Activity ID: {bf994811-8528-433f-b532-f29d347fce5b}
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0 T/S or 21590.000 ms/T
RPCPing v6.0. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002-2006
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Server
Port
# >20.0001
Server1
6001
32/100
Server1
6002
27/100
Server1
6004
0/100
Server2
6001
47/100
Server2
6002
0/100
Server2
6004
37/100
Server3
6001
0/100
Server3
6002
0/100
Server3
6004
41/100
Server4
6001
0/100
Server4
6002
29/100
Server4
6004
42/100
Server5
6001
69/100
Server5
6002
48/100
Server5
6004
69/100
Server6
6001
0/100
Server6
6002
0/100
Server6
6004
1/100
Server7
6001
0/100
Server7
6002
1/100
Server7
6004
1/100
Server8
6001
0/100
Server8
6002
0/100
Server8
6004
0/100
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