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Frightening permissions required when adding Google calendar to Outlook
Under Outlook Online you can add personal calendars (so they're merged in the view with your work calendars) from under Add calendar -> Add Personal calendars. Great idea! However, when you try to ad...
ZoltanLehoczky I completely agree. I'm just writing to add my support to this call for less broad permissions being requested to integrate Google calendar into Office 365 Calendar. Like Zoltan, I just require a read only view of my Google calendar. This shouldn't require giving permission to read my email or google drive, or delete my data
PeterAshford In the meantime, I managed to just display my personal Google Calendar's (or another one's) content in Outlook: You can select "Add calendar" → "Subscribe from web", and use the export URL of the other calendar. For Google Calendar you can find this under Settings → "Settings for my calendars" → select the calendar in question → find the "Secret address in iCal format”.
ZoltanLehoczkyThank you! That's helpful to know!