Outlook App on phone not showing colors for categories
Can someone tell me if the Outlook phone app is capable of displaying the colors set up for categories in the calendar? We have numerous teams using resource calendars and color coding the appointments with a different color for each person. They are complaining that they don't see the colors in the Outlook App on their phone. I tested this on my Android phone and don't see any colors. The user that submitted the complaint has an iPhone. I am having difficulty finding out from googling whether this feature is available in the Outlook phone app or not because the results just keep coming up for Outlook not the Outlook phone app. And if it is available, is it available for both Android & iOS or only one of those?
How do I book a meeting room for an invite that has been sent to me
We use room resource calendars for our room bookings. Usually we just add the meeting room into the location field or even as a participant and it books the room. When we get meeting invitations from external parties not in our organisation (e.g. suppliers) that will visit us, we'd like to book a meeting room for that visit. How do we do this? The only way we can currently do this is by creating our own duplicate calendar entry for the meeting and choose that room as the location, but we'd like to find a more integrated way, rather than having two separate unlinked calendar entries. With separate calendar entries, if the external meeting initiator changes meeting time, we have to manually change our own related calendar entry which we forget to do resulting in room being booked for wrong time. Any solutions or suggestions to help with this problem?Calendar of a Distribution Group in new Outlook
We have a Distribution Group in O365, which contains all members of a team. When you add this Distribution Group to the calendar, you can see the calendar of each team member. This way the admin can just update the Distribution Group with new team members, and everyone has gets the updated list of calendars. In the current Outlook you need to disable "Turn on shared calendar improvements" for this to work as described https://blog.icewolf.ch/archive/2023/06/22/outlook-calendar-you-cant-add-distribution-list-to-calendar-group/. But in the "new" Outlook I can't add the calendars via the Distribution Group, and the option from the "old" Outlook is gone. Does anyone have a solution for this?Primer: How to Use RBAC for Applications to Control App Use of the Mail.Send Permission
The temptation to use the Mail.Send application permission in scripts can lead PowerShell developers into trouble because the permission allows access to all mailboxes, including sensitive executive and financial mailboxes. Fortunately, RBAC for Applications allows tenants to control the access that apps have to mailboxes and other Exchange content. All explained here with an example script to test RBAC of Applications. https://office365itpros.com/2026/02/17/mail-send-rbac-for-applications/Practical Purview: Removing Old Items from User Calendars
A reader wants to remove all calendar items over a certain age. Compliance purge actions seem like a good way to do this, but there's a problem that needs to be fixed. eDiscovery purges can do the job, but only if you have eDiscovery Premium. And then there's Graph APIs to consider. All in all, many ways exist to purge calendar items. https://practical365.com/ediscovery-purges/
Microsoft Places individual desk booking is not working
Hi, Following the documentation, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/places/configure-desk-booking, I successfully ran the shared command lines without any errors. However, on Microsoft Places, I am unable to see individual desks appear; only desk pools are visible. Has anyone managed to get this to work? Thanks,Automatic Calendar Event Updates/Cancellations in Microsoft 365
Hi, One of our customers is experiencing an issue with Microsoft 365 where automatic calendar event updates and cancellations are being sent from one of the user accounts. The user has confirmed that they did not initiate these actions. Here are the details: The issue is occurring with a single user account till this time. The automatic updates and cancellations are being sent to all attendees of the few random events. The user has not made any changes to the event or their calendar settings. Any help or suggestions from the community would be greatly appreciated.
Outlook Web Access OWA Light Interface: "Bad Request" Error Message when clicking on Meeting Invites
Hello! I have been getting an error message "Bad Request" whenever I click on a meeting invitation in my Inbox within the Outlook Web Access / OWA Light Interface https://outlook.office.com/owa/?layout=light This happens within Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge, in private and non-private windows. Has anyone else experienced this? Or know how it can be fixed? Thanks!
Company employees sharing calendars with eachother?
The company I work for currently use a shared calendar in Dynamics 365 called "service calendar". My boss dislikes this calendar because it doesn't sync with his Outlook very well. Instead he wants everyone to share each others Outlook calendars. I am a bit concerned this is not the best practice. 1. It does not seem to be an easy way to setup everyone sharing with everyone as the O365 admin. 2. I am a bit concerned this can lead to problems. I assume it will be a strain on resources if the Outlook pc and mobile app has to sync everyones calendar? I would appreciate any input and possible suggestions for a better alternative. Thanks in advance.
