Office 365 Calendar sharing

[Meresgi]

So another office 365 issue. I need to create a public calendar for every user to be able to edit and view in an office of about 12. I can create a calendar in a basic 365 account on OWA and share it with everyone...but I can't give them permissions to edit through OWA because fucking microsoft or something...

I'm trying to map Outlook to the account but it's not connecting to the server to let me in the account through Outlook, if it would it would be easy to just go in there, create the shit and set permissions there, but i'm blocked on that route right now. I don't understand why you can't set permissions in OWA the same way you can in outlook..

[Meresgi]

Ok edit, the shared calendar can be edited by EVERYONE apparently other then the office manager...the fuck.

[Meresgi]

Nah problem exists with MS tech support not knowing what the fuck is going on lol. They told me i had to go through this whole powershell solution, when I finally got it all sorted it really easily. All the users can edit the calendar now, just had to share it with 2 different accounts since one user has 2 accounts mapped to a single profile, and that was creating an issue if one had the calendar shared but the other didn't.

[Ratatapa]

You can maybe try to go on the oppsite side aka if your outlooks are configured

Go to Outlook Calendar
Create Calendar
Right Click Calendar then propreties
Share
Add the users email you want and each rights then apply

If should send each user an email to accept the calendar share.

(Still talking about how it works with another mail server but you never know)

[Meresgi]

Its all working now, trying to understand what the clients even wanted was a hassle but they now all have a calendar shared amongst them that syncs up to their OWA as well (for some reason the 1st calendar wasn't showing up in OWA).

[Meresgi]

More and more I use office 365 the more its annoying as fucking shit half the time. Trying to share a public folder in outlook, now it's suddenly vanished and I can't get it back and all my users can't open up another email account....for no reason, nothing was changed...

[rezn0r]

i find that support & other random people across the net are really quick to start offering up complex powershell "solutions" when it's just something really dumb that i'm missing. i'm not saying that's what you are doing, i just happened to fix two problems i had been having this morning and am now seeing this thread so it's making me say this. but yeah, some random ass problems can be a real bitch. i haven't even tried to share any calendars yet, maybe i'll try to set one up for a conference room or something tomorrow. (so basically i contribute nothing to this thread, sorry)

[Meresgi]

^ Sharing calendars worked easily enough after I got it sorted out, public folder sharing just doesn't work with Office365 as MS is phasing it out slowly (and by slowly I mean stopping support for it suddenly lol) and forcing people to use sharepoint. I got around this by making another user and then mapping everyone to that users inbox, that way they can all share that inbox and keep their own private. We had an issue with getting into the user's account in Outlook as well and found out it was the stations DNS still pointing to the server. Once I edited the entry to point just to google's dns it worked fine and let us connect.