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Iron Contributor

Dec 01, 2017

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Calendar - Category - Colors

Many of our users are assigning Category > Colors to their appointments (created in OWA or Outlook for Windows, all running on EOL & O365). When we Add Calendars > From Directory in OWA some of the ...

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Diane_Poremsky_MVP
Dec 03, 2017
The client doesn’t matter - the permissions the users have on the calendars is the key. If they don’t have high enough permissions, they won’t see the colors. (If they have the same categories in their mailbox, they might see colors on those calendars.)

VasilMichev

MVP

Dec 02, 2017

This has to do with the way Outlook stores information about the (color) categories. You need to have at least Reviewer permissions on any shared resource you want to see the color info from.

Diane_Poremsky_MVP has a detailed article on this here: https://www.slipstick.com/outlook/outlook-categories-and-color-categories/

EricDeferm

Iron Contributor

Dec 02, 2017

Hi Vasil, tx for you quick reply and link to great article about Outlook categories and color categories. The article from @diane poremskey is mainly talking about the Outlook for Windows application. How do we control/setup/configure similar color-settings if we only use Outlook for Web?

Diane_Poremsky_MVP
MVP
Dec 03, 2017
The client doesn’t matter - the permissions the users have on the calendars is the key. If they don’t have high enough permissions, they won’t see the colors. (If they have the same categories in their mailbox, they might see colors on those calendars.)