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Best Setup for Office 365 Vacation Calendar
I'm looking to set up a calendar for one of our clients that has less than 30 users. They want it set up so that two people receive vacation requests and they can approve or deny them. They would also like this calendar to be visible to other employees so they can tell when other co-workers are out of the office.
At this point, I'm thinking either a new email address, group, or perhaps a shared mailbox. Any suggestions?
Did the same using a Sharepoint calendar and added a workflow for approval.
Showing one view of calendar for adding vaccation request, and shows another view with the requests being approved (and "today"). The later for all teammembers being able to see when collegaues are on vaccation
Looking at doing exactly what the OP said - what is a nice way to display a shared mailbox's calendar with view only permissions company wide on a webpage?
Published calendars' .html link can be put into an iframe so it can be then embedded into any webpage, including Sharepoint site pages with embed webpart.
<iframe src=" the .html link you can get from OWA" <p="" width="990" height="600">
</iframe>
So i would do this a bit different than what people described, but that is probably due to my background.
Especially if your current organization is not using SharePoint I think you are going to have trouble getting people to adopt into this.
I would do this through a resource mailbox in Exchange Online, atleast in the original scenario of a 30 person company. The more people you have, the more I think you may want to look at a Public Folder, or indeed SharePoint.
Create a "room mailbox" called Time Off Calendar. Set the management permissions to be managed by a person. Set that person to be whoever you want to control/approve timeoff requests. Users would submit their timeoff to the resource calendar by sending a meeting invite, and the person in charge could approve or deny it.
Adam
