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Best Setup for Office 365 Vacation Calendar
But also having 1 calendar for 40 people will be cumbersome when people start filling it! The view of this calendar will not be friendly either! If you want a separate calendar you can use a shared one or a 365 group calendar! A sharepoint calendar works basically the same as a shared one but you loose some exchange functionality! They have the option to add to their calendar as well!
If you use a office 365 group calendar you can set policy’s via powershell to subscribe everyone in the group to this, meaning they will receive a mail, add it themself to theirs etc..
I know this is a few years late, but I had the same problem. Although I used a Room, my belief is that a Resource would also work. We wanted a shared vacation calendar WITH approvals required. Hope this helps someone. I found this infuriatingly difficult to find a solution. But once I had the solution it was simple.
USE OLD Exchange Admin Center
- create room ooovaca and save
- edit room
- booking delegates
- select delegates...
- add delegates to list
- booking options
- allow repeating
- max booking time 730 (two years)
- max duration 0 (unlimited)
- save
In PowerShell
set-CalendarProcessing ooovaca -AddOrganizerToSubject $true -DeleteComments $false -DeleteSubject $false //this is so that viewers can see who made the request (in case they just said "Going to NC" in the subject)
set-calendarprocessing ooovaca -allowconflicts $true //so that multiple people could be on vacation at once
Now that there are unified groups which create a recipient type of GroupMailbox wouldn't it be nice to be able to set the automated calendar features of this mailbox type to use it as a vacation tracking calendar?. I know my manager of my department is wanting to track his reports' PTO, and would like to approve/reject them prior to them getting posted to our team calendar. Since we already have a Microsoft team set up for this, which has created a GroupMailbox why not let me set the ResourceDelegate up as my manager? Instead I receive the error that the recipient type must be set as a resource.
Worked for me. Thanks
