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Calendar permissions on Office 365 groups?
Slightly stranger than that.
I have confirmed that members do indeed only have read access in the portal.
However the same users connected with Outlook can still edit, create and delete.
This makes no sense at all.
Adrian - This feature was built specifically for our EDU customers who needed a way for teachers to control the calendar events and appointments from being modified by students in their classroom. Hence, it was first implemented in OWA with the goal of understanding how it would be used and then based on demand bring it to other endpoints including Outlook 2016. Let us know the use case for how you are planning to utilize this functionality in your organization and we can ensure it gets prioritized accordingly in Outlook 2016.
Thanks,
Krish
Hi,
When user tried to modify O365 Group calendar from OWA, it does work fine.
But whenever user try to modify/open/edit O365 Group calendar is says "you don't have permission".
Please help what could be the issue and how to resolve this, also find screenshot for the issue.
Agreed. One organization I'm working with wants to have a master calendar with important dates that everyone can read, but only want some people be able to add and edit. They also need to be able to reserve resources in this calendar so that they don't accidentally double book some venues or equipment.
Right now the only way to have a calendar with fine-grained permissions is in SharePoint, but SharePoint online no longer supports calendars with resources! Argh!
So now I get to go back to them with "well, you can either have a calendar that anyone can jack up but has all the features, or you can use a calendar that has the permission structure you want but is lacking the features".
- Getting tired of Microsoft pushing half baked solutions. Here is a use case: We have an office with Attorney's and Paralegals and other staff. We need only the attorney's to be able to modify in a group called Statutes, but the other members of the group should be able to see the calendar. It's a standard shared mailbox/calendar setup, my hope was the new Office 365 group might make a good alternative to a shared mailbox setup, but maybe it's not the best option. For something like sharing a calendar, there are way too many options and all of them have caveats and drawbacks.
Hi there,
Happy to chat about this if you want to give me a call.
In most schools there will be a few people who write entries to the whole school calendar and the vast majority of teachers and support staff will be read only.
Its that simple. Some might allow teachers to add events that then go through some for of approval process but in general its quite simple.
They will want the same permissions irrespective of OWA/Outlook etc.
