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alexranes
Copper Contributor
Aug 16, 2022

How to get alerts for events in shared calendar

Our teams use shared team calendars and no one is able to get alerts for events even though we have all turned them on. We would like an event created by anyone to give everyone who has the calendar ...
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Kidd_Ip
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Aug 18, 2022

alexranes 

Outlook only supports reminders\alert in your own mailbox, it doesn’t work for shared calendar.

You can consider to assign full access permission to the shared mailbox and add to your Outlook.

Hope this can help

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    alexranes
    Copper Contributor
    Aug 18, 2022

    Kidd_Ip thanks for confirming. MS never ceases to amaze me.

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      JP540
      Copper Contributor
      Jul 21, 2023
      Others complain they can't get the reminders in shared mailboxes to turn off, so I guess its just luck or unluck of the draw.
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        farrc4780
        Copper Contributor
        Jul 25, 2023

        JP540 Yep, we are having this problem after migrating from Google. It's quite frustrating that there seems to be no way to turn it off or on!

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