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Georgeina Baker's avatar
Georgeina Baker
Iron Contributor
Dec 03, 2021

Change global Calendar view setting for all users - possible?

We want the default for our Calendars to be "all users' Calendars are set to show Can view titles and locations", so colleagues can see a useful level of detail, not just 'free/busy', when booking meetings.

We have 20k+ users, so asking users to make the change manually, is not an option. 

Is a global change possible? 🤞

 

8 Replies

  • Nayan_P's avatar
    Nayan_P
    Copper Contributor
    Hi Georgina,
    Pardon me if being dim but the button underneath is: 'can view all details'. This should provide more than 'free/busy'. Have you tried it?
    Kind regards
    • Georgeina Baker's avatar
      Georgeina Baker
      Iron Contributor

      Nayan_P you're right! The button is there for individual users. 

      We want to make the setting 'can see titles/locations' default for all/new users, globally, not ask them all individually to change their setting. We have 20,000 users and regular turnover so it's not a good use of our time. 

  • If you want to enable "LimitedDetails: View availability data with subject and location" for all Internal users. You can run the following command that will change the Default sharing for all the User Mailbox calendars.

    $Users = Get-Mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails UserMailbox
    ForEach($User in $Users){
    $Calendar = $user.alias+”:\Calendar”
    Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity $Calendar -User Default -AccessRights LimitedDetails}
    • Haneef Ibn Ahmad's avatar
      Haneef Ibn Ahmad
      Iron Contributor
      Thanks, I use a similar script too.

      However, this goes into each Calendar and makes a change, and has issues in multi-lingual environments.

      Would be good, if there was a way to just specify the default permissions for all new accounts.
      • Georgeina Baker's avatar
        Georgeina Baker
        Iron Contributor

        Haneef Ibn Ahmad I agree 100%. This should be a default setting - it supports our corporate culture behaviour by baking it in from the outset, so does the adoption for us!

         

         

        Anyone from Microsoft here? 

    • Georgeina Baker's avatar
      Georgeina Baker
      Iron Contributor
      Thank you! I should’ve said, I’m not a technician. For clarity, your suggestion uses PowerShell, right? And that’s because there’s not a global setting for this available?
      🙏
      • surajbudhani's avatar
        surajbudhani
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        That's Right.
        This method uses PowerShell to set the default permissions

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