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Group Calendar in Outlook 2016
MicrosoftHi folks,
Apologies for not seeing this thread earlier.
We certainly don't recommend users opening group calendars by going to Open calendar > From address book. As some of you pointed out, it's the union of events in group members' calendars, not what is on the group calendar itself.
At this point, all users on the Monthly Channel for Office 365 ProPlus should see all their groups in the left navigation pane in the calendar module by default--in fact, for almost a year now.
Users on Semi-Annual Channel and Semi-Annual Channel (Targeted) should see all their groups in the left navigation pane in the calendar module in builds after (but not including) 1808.
Whichever version you’re on, you can always go to the group from the mail module, and then press “Calendar” from the ribbon. As well, as other folks have mentioned, you can also right click on the group in the left nav in the mail module, and favorite it; this will also make the group appear in the left nav in the calendar module.
What about the users who are not members of that group but still want to be able to view the calendar for group events?
- Ethan Li
mikem420: For users that are not a part of the public group would like to see the calendar, they can go to the ribbon at the top and select "Browse groups", and then hit "View" on the group they'd like to view.
From there it will launch the group conversation space, and they can hit Calendar from the Group section of the ribbon.
That being said, it might just be easier to join the public group and not follow it in inbox. For private groups, the calendar isn't visible to folks outside the group.
Ethan Li Why not fix it to where it just adds properly from the address book? Why should we have to remember all of these magical workarounds? Just make it work like the other calendars. Sheesh. I dont understand why you guys hate usability.
