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Guest Access Calendars and Mobile App
Pretty sure Matt Jenkinson means Calendar by diary, not OneNote.
Guest access to the Groups app would be helpful for us, too.
Yes my appologies. I was refering to the calendar.
I've attached 2 pics. One logged in as company user, one as external guest.
You will see that the guest does not get access to the calendar, which seems a bit odd....
- TonyRedmondOct 26, 2016MVP
Essentially the reason why you run into the issue with the calendar is that guest access is built on top of SharePoint sharing. This is why when a guest user accesses a group, they see a modified version of the Files interface and can work with documents. However, the same kind of external access is not available for Exchange mailboxes, which is where conversations and the calendar are held. Therefore, although guest users can participate in conversations via email, they cannot connect to the mailbox to browse conversations and interact with conversations "directly". For the same reason, they can't access the calendar folder in the group mailbox.
- Sahil AroraOct 24, 2016Former Employee
Thanks Matthew for the feedback! Currently we dont support guest users accessing calendar. I will keep this as a datapoint for our planning.
However you can send event invites to guest users and they can add it in their calendar.