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Julia Foran's avatar
Julia Foran
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Sep 16, 2017

Shared calendars now sync to mobile phones

We are rolling out a feature update that enables shared calendars to sync to mobile phones. This update will make it possible to sync all your Office365 shared calendars to your mobile phone for any ...
Jakub Krňák's avatar
Jakub Krňák
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Oct 02, 2017

Hello,

 

is there some possibility to turn off this feature? We have got problem in our company with Android users - they have synced everything in one calendar, so they can't turn off shared mailbox in their smartphones, because it is part of one calendar. So they have "spamed" calendar on Android with foreign events.


Thank you very much for informations,

Jakub Krňák

  • Julia Foran's avatar
    Julia Foran
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    Oct 02, 2017

    Hi Jakub,

     

    It won't be possible to disable this at the tenant level. We hope that the native calendar apps start showing the different calendars, but an alternative would be for your users to use the Outlook for Android application which does differentiate between calendars.

     

    --Julia

    • Jakub Krňák's avatar
      Jakub Krňák
      Copper Contributor
      Oct 03, 2017

      Thank you very much for your reply Julia, I will informate my coleagues.

      There is problem only on Android, iOS is OK :-)

       

      Have a nice day,
      Jakub

      • Kazzan's avatar
        Kazzan
        MVP
        Oct 04, 2017

        Same here. Users get confused that calendar events which they do not planned are in their calendar also with reminders for some of our users. Also getting just open calendar on Outlook and after that it get synced is odd for some.

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