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We have a small number of Mac users (including myself) and are having an issue with Shared Group Calendars. I have created some Calendars in Outlook and then instructed users to go to the Calendar and click the Connect to Outlook button and then accept the calendar. This works fine for Windows users (which I am as well) but the button is greyed out on the Mac. I kind of assumed that the calendar would be synced to my Mail Account on any other platform. So I added the calendar to Outlook in Windows, BUT it doesn't appear on the Mac App, Email on the Web, or the mobile client. This is not good.
What if a user gets a new computer and has to install Outlook on that computer. Will he or she have to add the calendar again?
Before I roll out anymore of these I want determine what is going on. Any help would be much appreciated. Hi Bryan, I don't recognize the client from the very first screenshot. It appears to be a SharePoint calendar site maybe, but it's not any of the Outlook clients. This is probably why you don't see it appearing anywhere else. Mac Outlook does not yet display the shared calendars that users see in Outlook on the web & Windows.
They're currently working on fixing this, but in the meantime, your users will have to go open each shared calendar in Outlook for Mac. To view the calendars on Outlook for Windows & web, I would recommend your users accept the sharing invitations from the web. Hi Bryan, I'm sorry - I'm not an expert in how SharePoint calendar works, or what their 'Connect to Outlook' option is actually doing. I would recommend cross-posting into a SharePoint forum. I would expect the calendar to show up in Outlook on Windows, web, and probably mobile (depending on exactly how SharePoint is creating this calendar.) I would not expect the calendar to show up in Outlook for Mac because that client does not (yet!) read the list of calendars from the service. You'll need to specifically open/add the calendars in Outlook for Mac. I have a follow-up question.
I use outlook with an imap account and don't have any exchange accounts any more. As a result, my 'add calendar' button is greyed out and yet the preferences are different from the bulletin you reference. These are the preferences I am offered. Right now, the mobile app is picking up everything from my gmail account. The desktop app is picking up calendar items. Nothing I add to the desktop calendar shows up on mobile or OWA. Nothing I add on mobile shows on the desktop.
Hi guys and gals, A user is experiencing an issue with his exchange account calendar whereby is it not showing/downloading within Outlook. His calendar appears with all appointments/meetings within OWA and iphone. The family calendar in Outlook works just like any other shared calendar on Outlook — all members of your family can add different events to the calendar, and it will show up in Outlook Calendar for all of your family members.
Any suggestions? Hi John, IMAP protocol is an email-only protocol and doesn't support syncing of calendars, contacts, or tasks. That is why the buttons are greyed out for IMAP accounts. The calendar that you see is a local calendar on the Mac computer, so it's expected that the events you create or change do not roam. If you check the 'Hide On My Computer folders', that calendar should disappear.
If this is confusing (very understandable!), you can always leave the team feedback at outlook.uservoice.com. The Outlook for Mac team is working on changing how they sync Gmail accounts so that they can sync calendars.
I don't have timelines for that, but I can tell you that work is in progress! Hi Julia, Your response here may address my question. We share specific calendars housed in a shared mailbox shared with our students. The mailbox itself is not shared with the students, just the faculty, so that the faculty can edit the calendars. Our students with Outlook for Mac don't seem to be able to access the calendars that have been shared with them. We share the calendars by right clicking the calendar, from within the shared mailbox in OWA, and selecting Sharing Permissions.
Having the student click the Add a Shared Calendar button on the toolbar and attempt to add the shared mailbox, doesn't work. Is there any way at all for the students to access the shared mailbox calendar from Outlook for Mac? Hi Samuel, We're currently working on improving shared calendars in Outlook for Mac. Unfortunately today, the list of calendars shown in Mac is not read from the service, so that's why the students who accepted the sharing invitation may see the calendar in all of their apps except Outlook for Mac. We are hoping to release a fix very soon so that Outlook for Mac starts reading the calendar list from the server, and the students would automatically see those calendars. However, in the meantime, the users can do the following workaround:.
File - Open - Other User's Folder. Search for the shared mailbox.
Select 'Calendar' from the dropdown. Click open Note that this will only work if the calendar is shared with 'View all details' permissions or higher. If the permissions is only Availability (free/busy) or Titles and Locations (limited details), then Outlook for Mac cannot currently view those calendars. Hi all, We're excited to announce that as of this morning, 100% of Office 365 users on Insiders Fast will have the shared calendar improvements. If you want to join Insiders Fast, you can follow the instructions. This is a big update that represents a major milestone for shared calendars in Outlook for Mac. Below I've highlighted the ways it's improved for Outlook users:.
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Simple, consistent sharing: You can now share your calendar from any Outlook client (Windows, Mac, Web, iOS, Android), and there's a simple set of calendar sharing permissions that are consistent across all Outlook clients. The invites that are sent out are the same format, no matter which client you send from as they are now generated by the Office 365 service rather than the clients themselves. Easy to accept: All Outlook clients also have an easy 'Accept' button when you receive a calendar sharing invitation. This is a brand new feature for Mac!. Shared calendars roam to every app: You will see the same calendars across all Outlooks as well.
In the past, Mac was reading shared calendars from a local store rather than from the service, and with this update, Mac shows the same sahred calendars as you see in other Outlook applications. Free/busy in Mac: In the past, you were not able to view shared calendars unless you had full read permissions. With this update, you can open & view calendars where you have only free/busy permissions. It doesn't matter if you've been explicitly shared the calendars, or you are opening the calendar of another user in your organization where you have permissions via the default organization permissions. Secondary calendar sharing in Mac: As you were probably aware, in order to share a secondary calendar from Mac, you also had to share your primary calendar.
This is also fixed with this update - you can share any calendar regardless of permissions on other calendars in your mailbox. In addition to all the calendar sharing improvements above, there is some additional calendar goodness in this Mac update: such as the ability to add inline attachments to a calendar invite, create Teams meetings, or choose to prevent forwarding a meeting invite (already released in Windows & Web). Feel free to direct-message me with any feedback!