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Best Setup for Office 365 Vacation Calendar
Did the same using a Sharepoint calendar and added a workflow for approval.
Showing one view of calendar for adding vaccation request, and shows another view with the requests being approved (and "today"). The later for all teammembers being able to see when collegaues are on vaccation
Looking at doing exactly what the OP said - what is a nice way to display a shared mailbox's calendar with view only permissions company wide on a webpage?
Published calendars' .html link can be put into an iframe so it can be then embedded into any webpage, including Sharepoint site pages with embed webpart.
<iframe src=" the .html link you can get from OWA" <p="" width="990" height="600">
</iframe>
So i would do this a bit different than what people described, but that is probably due to my background.
Especially if your current organization is not using SharePoint I think you are going to have trouble getting people to adopt into this.
I would do this through a resource mailbox in Exchange Online, atleast in the original scenario of a 30 person company. The more people you have, the more I think you may want to look at a Public Folder, or indeed SharePoint.
Create a "room mailbox" called Time Off Calendar. Set the management permissions to be managed by a person. Set that person to be whoever you want to control/approve timeoff requests. Users would submit their timeoff to the resource calendar by sending a meeting invite, and the person in charge could approve or deny it.
Adam
I'm seeking a simple Outlook solution to create a Vacation or Visitor calendar where employees can put Vacation or Visitors on a public calendar that everyone can see. I'd like this to be done in a single transaction from their own email calendar. No work flow or approvals required. Just a public "whiteboard" for everyone to see who is on Vacation or whether there are any Visitors scheduled and when. One example, if I am out of the office next Wednesday, I'd like to schedule that on my calendar so that it shows me out of the office, send a copy to my boss so she knows and can add it to her calendar if she chooses, and then put it on the public calendar so everyone in the office knows I will be out of the office as well (but it doesn't clog up everyone's inbox with a calendar or email entry if they don't care that I'll be OOTO). Setting up a separate public calendar where a separate transaction is required is not an acceptable solution due to the negative "productivity perception" of having to complete two transactions. As simple as this sounds, my IT department has been unable to provide me a solution.
