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Kimberly Boyd's avatar
Kimberly Boyd
Copper Contributor
May 27, 2018

Microsoft Can't Access Booking Calendar

We recently added a person to our team and I am trying to give them access to our booking calendar. I am an admin on the account and have turned on two product licenses for her - Office 365 Enterprise E3 and Business Apps (Free). We can click the bookings icon in her account but when we select the calendar we want to add we get a message stating "We can't connect to the booking calendar right now. Please try again later." We have been trying to add the calendar for three days and keep getting the same error message. As an admin, I have already added her as a team member to the staff section of the calendar, however when I try to add her hours in "availability" or list her as an administrator vs. viewer, the system says "Your request can't be completed right now. Please try again later." when I try to save. I have been getting this error message for three days, as well. Is there a reason the Microsoft system is not allowing us to make changes or add this booking calendar to her account?

    • Andrew Parkinson's avatar
      Andrew Parkinson
      Copper Contributor
      Thanks Victor your solution worked or me. I was getting "We can't connect to the booking calendar right now. Please try again later."
      • BrianHarry1730's avatar
        BrianHarry1730
        Brass Contributor
        Can you please detail exactly what you did to fix the issue, as I'm getting the same issue trying to create a new bookings calendar, I need to get this setup ASAP.

        Kind regards Brian
    • Kimberly Boyd's avatar
      Kimberly Boyd
      Copper Contributor

      Unfortunately not :-/ I've been troubleshooting with Microsoft since I made the original post on this message board. They've had me go through some steps on Azure Powershell and do a Fiddler trace but none of that has fixed the issue. I've also tried creating a new calendar altogether - I was able to input all the information with no issues (business hours, employees, etc.) but no one besides myself can add the calendar to their account. They all get the "We can't connect to the booking calendar right now. Please try again later." message. Knowing someone outside of our organization is having a problem, too, makes me think this may be an issue on the Microsoft side and not the user end.

      • Keira McCann's avatar
        Keira McCann
        Brass Contributor

        Hi just wondering if you resolved this issue? I managed to create the booking calendar using my work account, but when I try to set up the booking calendar for another work account (with the same licence) I get the message 'there was a problem setting up the calendar, please try again later'. Im not sure how to resolve the issue as it works for 1 licenced account and not another.

  • johnsoep's avatar
    johnsoep
    Copper Contributor

    My organization is evaluating Microsoft Bookings and I ran into the same issue. I'm currently developing a proof of concept and is there any fix for this. We're looking at using this for scheduling our student worker appointments and the staff listing changes each semester so we'll need to be able to grant each student access to the booking page.

  • Kimberly Boyd I used the instruction from Victor Ungureanu, he has the powershell commands in his YouTube video. I logged into Powershell as an admin 

    $UserCredential = Get-Credential

    $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic –AllowRedirection

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

    Import-PSSession $Session

    Connect-MSOLService -credential $LiveCred

    Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Force

     

    found my Bookings mailboxes that had broken permissions by running the following

    get-mailbox -RecipientTypeDetails SchedulingMailbox | ft DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress

    Then ran:

    Remove-MailboxPermission YourBooking SMTP@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com -User adminuser@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com -AccessRights FullAccess -Deny:$false

    Add-MailboxPermission SMTP@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com -User adminuser@yourdomain.onmicrosoft.com -AccessRights FullAccess -Deny:$false

     

    Change YourBookingSMTP to the booking your cannot access from your list, change the user email to the person you want to add as an owner. Remove then add. Wait 15 minutes and you should have access again.

     

     

     

     

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