Calendar Access Rights

[Mitchell]

Hi,

I have a company with about 80 users over 8 departments.
Each department need access to every other persons
calendar from their own dept. Is there an easy way to
implement this (using W2K, Exchange 2000, Outlook XP)

Setting mailbox rights on Exch2K is not ideal as this
grants access to the whole mailbox, although you can grant
access by security group through AD.

The only way I've found to do this is to set up each
person's individual profile on my PC, open Outlook, set
delegate permissions for the other's in that dept but this
is going to take forever!!

Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way?
Many thanks,
Mitchell

 

[Nikki]

I would not use the "Delegates" tab to set view permissions
for the Calendar. This will give everyone the right to "Send
on behalf" of each other. (Read the fine print on the Delegates
page). You really need to set the Calendar
properties permissions for this (Right-click the calendar folder
and select properties, then permissions).

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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

Hi,

I have a company with about 80 users over 8 departments.
Each department need access to every other persons
calendar from their own dept. Is there an easy way to
implement this (using W2K, Exchange 2000, Outlook XP)

Setting mailbox rights on Exch2K is not ideal as this
grants access to the whole mailbox, although you can grant
access by security group through AD.

The only way I've found to do this is to set up each
person's individual profile on my PC, open Outlook, set
delegate permissions for the other's in that dept but this
is going to take forever!!

Can anyone tell me if there's an easy way?
Many thanks,
Mitchell

 

[Mitchell]

Hi Nikki,

Thanks for the info. I accept what you are saying Re: the
send-on-behalf, but this still means that I will have to
assign all rights individually, is there no way to do this
by group (Outlook only provides the distribution lists to
choose from, not the AD security groups)

Thanks,
Mitchell

 

[Nikki]

I am pretty sure there is a way. If I was you I would post
this to: microsoft.public.exchange.admin

They will be better able to answer this for you, and I'm
pretty sure there is an answer.

I'll look around tomorrow and see if I can find something on
this too.

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Nikki Peterson [MVP - Outlook]

Hi Nikki,

Thanks for the info. I accept what you are saying Re: the
send-on-behalf, but this still means that I will have to
assign all rights individually, is there no way to do this
by group (Outlook only provides the distribution lists to
choose from, not the AD security groups)

Thanks,
Mitchell

 

[Sue Mosher [MVP]]

There are some tools to help with this. See
http://www.slipstick.com/exs/permissions.htm#tools
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Sue Mosher, Outlook MVP
Outlook and Exchange solutions at http://www.slipstick.com
Author of
Microsoft Outlook Programming - Jumpstart for
Administrators, Power Users, and Developers