Grant editor permissions to external user on shared calendar

Question

Hi,

i try to implement a customer request for a shared calendar. I need to share the calendar with an external company, which have no user in the customers domain. The problem is, that i need to grant the external company user the possibilitty to add entries in the sahred calendar.
I can add permissions to the user, but only the free/busy sharing policies seems to be to configure.
As i try to set permissions in powershell:

In the organization settings in the m365 admin center, i only see the calendar setting for external sharing (also free / busy sharing only).

So is it possible to share a shared-mailbox calendar with an external user in combination with the possibility for the external user to add an change appointments??

Thanks in advance
Pascal

Answer 1

I know its been some time since this question was asked. Just curious if the limited permissions were still the only option? Only Free/Busy or LimitedDetails, always read-only.

I too have a client seeking editor permissions for an external user. Was only seeing that the next best option may be sharing calendar via sharepoint or teams?

Answer 2

External permissions can only be read-only, there is no way to add Editor permissions. If you need such, you need to create an account for the external user within your organization, then grant the permissions.

Answer 3

Hi @Pascal Lorch

For the error you get when running the command set-mailboxfolderpermission, that's because there is no existing permission entry found for user.

You could firstly check the permission for this:

Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "xxx@domian.com:\Calendar" | ft Identity,FolderName,User,AccessRights  

If no result found, the solution is to use the Add-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet when there are no access rights in place for that user.

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "xxx@domain.com:\Calendar" -User "xxx@domain.com" -AccessRights Editor  

Here is an article introduces this error: Set-MailboxFolderPermission – There is no existing permission entry found for user
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In addition, for sharing in o365, we could refer to the official document which lists different scenarios: Sharing in Exchange Online

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