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Shared calendar on macOS Calendar app
- We discovered that the Mac OS X app was requesting hidden folders when fetching list of calendars. The new shared calendars are stored as hidden folders and were supposed to be only visible in EAS & REST APIs, but we weren't explicitly excluding them from apps that requested hidden folders.
While they showed up in the EWS app, full functionality was never supported via EWS so it's possible that edits would fail, for example.
I've submitted a request to our support writers to update the calendar sharing support article, but most of them are out of town on vacation for the holidays. I'm hoping our documentation is updated in early January to reflect this.
Also, please feel free to private message me with more details on why your users want to use Mac OS X instead of Outlook for Mac - I'm curious what the deltas are.
MicrosoftHi Yoann,
Shared calendars are and will continue to be accessible from the native Mac OS X calendar app. However, we are not exposing all the improvements to shared calendars via the EWS protocol, which is what that app uses. Users on the native Mac OS X calendar app will continue to be reading & writing directly to the shared calendar in the old-model of calendar sharing.
It's possibly a bit confusing because the iOS calendar app (which is branded as the same app) uses EAS, which is a supported protocol for the new shared calendar improvements.
In other words, if you accept a new shared calendar, you will see it appear on your iOS calendar app without any additional actions, but it will not show up automatically in the Mac OS X calendar app (you still need to go and open that calendar explicitly from within the app).
Does that make sense?
I understand there is feature difference between EAS and EWS, but what I don't understand, is that the feature was here on macOS and isn't supported anymore.
What is still working on macOS is the delegated account, but it's not the same sharing method from OWA.
Please, could you make a formal documentation explaining how to handle shared calendar via OWA for iOS and macOS native apps?
- Julia ForanWe discovered that the Mac OS X app was requesting hidden folders when fetching list of calendars. The new shared calendars are stored as hidden folders and were supposed to be only visible in EAS & REST APIs, but we weren't explicitly excluding them from apps that requested hidden folders.
While they showed up in the EWS app, full functionality was never supported via EWS so it's possible that edits would fail, for example.
I've submitted a request to our support writers to update the calendar sharing support article, but most of them are out of town on vacation for the holidays. I'm hoping our documentation is updated in early January to reflect this.
Also, please feel free to private message me with more details on why your users want to use Mac OS X instead of Outlook for Mac - I'm curious what the deltas are.Hello - I believe I also have this issue. Essentially I cannot (where I used to be able to) add an Office 365 shared calendar to iCal via Delegation. The shared calendars cannot be found, despite seeming to have the correct permissions. Two relevant screencaptures attached.
Any guidance would be most appreciated as Google has failed to provide a solution.
Regards,
Matt
I am also interested in this.
We are developing a calendar client based on EWS. Some of our Office 365 users cannot add delegate calendars. Interestingly, trying to add these shared calendars on Apple Calendar on macOS, it also fails (see image).
