Calendar Permissions - Do you share your calendar?
Last updated by Brady Stroud [SSW] 7 months ago.See historyWithin a company, there are occasions that you are not able to access your computer to send sick emails, or you get a call from your client on the way to the office that you have to drive to a client site straight away; when such things happen, you need someone else to update your calendar when you call in, so others are aware of your availabilities.
Always make sure that:
- Admin people are able to access your calendar with full permission in order to add/edit/delete appointments for you.
- The whole organization can see your full calendar details.
Do this to allow Admins to edit your calendar permissions
- Open Outlook (or Outlook Web) | Click Calendar | Click "Share Calendar" | Click "Add..." | Add the Admin group | Select "Can edit" Note: Check you are looking in the right address book using the "Address Book" dropdown if you cannot find a user or group.
Now do this to allow the whole organization to see your full calendar details:
- Open Outlook (or Outlook Web) | Click Calendar | Click "Share Calendar" | Click "My Organization" | Select "Can view all details"
If you cannot see "My Organization" from Outlook Desktop version, use the web version:
- Open Outlook Web | Click Calendar | Click “View” | Click “Calendar settings”
- Click “Shared calendars” | in “Share a Calendar”, select the calendar
- In "People in my organization" | Select "Can view all details"
Opening other people's calendar
Once the permissions are given, opening other people's calendar is as easy as 2 steps:
- Go to the Calendar tab in outlook and click "open a Shared Calendar"
- Choose the calendar you want to open in the pop-up form
Then you can have this shared calendar shown in your Outlook.