This blog post is part 3 of the three-part series on Microsoft Teams and on-premises Exchange mailboxes.
Microsoft Teams and on-premises mailboxes: Part 1 – How do Teams and Exchange Server interact?
Microsoft Teams and on-premises mailboxes: Part 2 - Teams Calendar App Troubleshooting
In the first part of the series, I presented an overview of how Teams Backend Services and on-premises Exchange organizations interact. The second part of the series describes how the Teams Backend Services find the on-premises Exchange organization via AutoDiscover and what options you have to isolate sources of error when problems arise during this process, and the access to the calendar app.
This blog post covers Calendar Delegates for Teams meetings and the calendar-based presence status.
Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams and Calendar Delegates
The Calendar App displays your calendar to plan meetings or live meetings. If you want a delegate to create a Teams meeting on your behalf, the delegate must schedule the meeting in Outlook for desktop if both users have on-premises mailboxes. You can only plan a new Teams meeting if the Microsoft Teams AddIn is available in Outlook.
Another essential prerequisite is that you, as the mailbox manager, grant delegate access with Editor-permissions via the Outlook setup wizard for delegates. Assigning folder permissions on the calendar folder is not sufficient.
Creating a new team meeting by a delegate for a manager mailbox in an on-premises Exchange organization also uses the Exchange Web Services endpoint. Creating a new meeting by a delegate uses the following steps:
If you encounter problems creating a new Teams meeting invite as a delegate, you can check the following:
Check the EWS protocol log for the GetDelegate query
Check the IIS Frontend and EWS-Proxy logs for Teams Backend connections
Check the Exchange Server PartnerApplication-configuration
Another error source for connection issues to Exchange Server endpoints is user agent string filtering. If you use Layer 7 network devices that perform such filtering, configure them for bypass.
In part 2 of this mini-series, you learned the detailed steps for troubleshooting using the Exchange Server log files. Use the same procedures for troubleshooting the calendar delegate issues.
Troubleshooting Microsoft Teams and calendar-based Presence Status
Microsoft Teams can update the presence status to "In a meeting" based on calendar information in your mailbox. However, there are limits to this functionality in conjunction with an on-premises Exchange Server mailbox.
The Microsoft Teams client queries the presence status every six minutes from the Teams backend's Presence Service. An Exchange calendar query can be done in two different modes:
The combination of Microsoft Teams with on-premises mailboxes supports Pull-Mode only.
The Presence Service uses the REST protocol when querying calendar information and performs the following steps:
The options analyzing issues are the same that you have already learned about for AutoDiscover and calendar access:
As with the calendar delegate access, user agent string filters are also sources of error for presence status. If you use Layer 7 network devices to filter access to the REST endpoint, configure them for bypass or remove them from the access path for troubleshooting.
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Thomas Stensitzki is a leading technology consultant focusing on Microsoft messaging and collaboration technologies and the owner of Granikos GmbH & Co. KG. He is an MVP for Office Apps & Services and an MCT Regional Lead. As a user group organizer, he hosts the Microsoft Teams User Group Berlin and the Exchange User Group DACH.
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