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Djeanthi2215
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Aug 16, 2024

In Outlook how to create common event Categorize for the whole organization

 

How to create event categories for calendar events to be selected by the user when creating a new event. Example

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  • Hello !Djeanthi2215 

     

    Do you mean the color categories that you can add to emails and calendar events? 

    If that is the case then yes you can deploy this to the whole organisation using GPO or Intune Configuration profiles. 

     

    What you want to do is create a new reg key in the following path 
    HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Preferences

    And the key you want to create will have these properties

    Type: String
    Name: newcategories

    Value: The name of your categories separated by ";" See picture below for example

     

    Now after I have done the above change in my registry, If i Look in Outlook at my categories in the calendar I can see these new categories. 

    Is this what you were looking for? 

    If that is the case, you can deploy this reg key to your users via GPO or Intune configuration profiles 🙂 

     

    Let me know how it goes or if you have further questions

    If this helped solve your issue feel free to mark my reply as "best solution" 

     

    Cheers

    Oliwer Sundgren

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      Djeanthi2215
      Copper Contributor

      Hi oliwer_sundgren 

       

      I could not see "new Category" at preferences as given below.  Also let me know more about how to set via GPO or Intune configuration profiles .

       

       

      Thanks!

       

      • oliwer_sundgren's avatar
        oliwer_sundgren
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        Hello again! Djeanthi2215


        You have to create it under Preferences yourself.

        Do the following

        1: Right click the white the "preferences" folder
        2: Choose "New" and then "String Value"

         


        3: name it "newcategories" and then click enter

         


        4: Doubleclick "newcategories" to modify it
        5: in "value data" Write the following to add the categories that you had in your example
        and then click "OK"
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         6: Restart Outlook and you will see the new categories 🙂 

         

        Let me know how it goes! And then we can discuss Intune or GPO

         

        Cheers
        Oliwer Sundgren

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