Set Outlook Calendar Permissions

Set Outlook Calendar Permissions

How to assign calendar permissions to another user. 

Assign Calendar Permissions

  1. Open Outlook

  2. Select Calendar

  3. On the Home tab, select Calendar Permissions

  4. Select the Permissions tab if it is not already selected

  5. Select Add

  6. Type the name of the person you wish to add (e.g, doe, jane).  Highlight the name that you want to add

  7. Click the Add button and the user's name will display underlined in the text box to the right

  8. Click Ok

  9. Under Permissions you can set the appropriate permissions for the user (e.g., Reviewer, Author, etc.)

  10. Click OK when you are finished selecting the permissions

Permission Settings

Owner

Create, read, modify, and delete all items, and create subfolders. Can change the permission levels that other people have for the folder. 

Publishing Editor

Create, read, modify, and delete all items and create subfolders. 

Editor

Create, read, modify, and delete all items.

Publishing Author

Create and read items, create subfolders, and modify and delete items and files that you create. (Does not apply to delegates.)

Author

Create and read items, and modify and delete items and files that you create.

Non-Editing Author

Create and read items s only.

Reviewer

Read items only.

Contributor

Create items only. The contents of the calendar do not display. 

Free/Busy Time, Subject, Location

See free/busy time as well as the subject and location of items. Cannot Create Files and can only read this basic information, not the full files.

Free/Busy Time

See free/busy time only.

None

No permission. You cannot open the calendar.