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Shared calendar on macOS Calendar app
Hello,
Since few months shared calendars are gone from macOS Calendar apps (not Outlook on Mac, the native calendar app of macOS).
It's a well known bug who impact every macOS version who...
- 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.
What's really confusing is that the shared calendar directly seen on Calendar for macOS was working before and now it's just gone…
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?
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 Foran
Microsoft
MicrosoftWe 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.
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).
- I am experiencing the same issue. Delegating a calendar in the macOS calendar app connected to Office 365 does not work because the user to delegate to is not found. This used to work fine, but does not anymore. Any hint how to resolve this is much appreciated.
