Shared Calendar Reviewer Rights Not Working In Outlook 2010 SP2

Hello All,

We are facing strange issue regarding calendar permissions in outlook 2010 SP2

We have granted four users "Reviewer" access to a particular users calendar.

All four users when try to book meeting or edit already booked meeting in shared calendar in outlook 2007, outlook 2013 and OWA they get error "You don't have permission to create an entry in this folder", which is correct when Reviewer permissions are in place, but when all these four users try to book meeting or edit already booked meeting in Outlook 2010 they get NO error and able to open/create/modify meetings in shared calendar which is strange behavior in outlook 2010.

Can anyone please let me know how we can prevent all these four users from opening/creating/modifying meetings in shared calendar in all client (Outlook 2007,2010,2013 & OWA), what permissions, settings, registry tweak I've to apply in outlook 2010 so that users will not able to open or create meetings in shared calendar when granted "Reviewer" permission.

We have Exchange 2010 SP3 CU8 in our organization.

We tried LimitedDetails, AvailabilityOnly, non cached mode settings also but no joy.

-Sandesh




  • Edited by Piramal IT Wednesday, May 27, 2015 4:42 PM
May 21st, 2015 6:04pm

Hi Sandesh,

I just tested this issue in Outlook 2010 and here is the result:

When double-clicking on a date (or right-clicking on a date and clicking New Meeting Request) in a shared calendar, it opens a new meeting request window. However, the sender is me and the recipient is the owner of the shared calendar. If I click Send button, it will create a meeting in my calendar and in the shared calendar, just like I sent a meeting request to the owner of the shared calendar.

However, if I change the recipient of the opened meeting request and click Send button, it won't create a meeting item in the shared calendar, neither in my calendar. The meeting request won't arrive to the recipient's mailbox.

Is this what you are encountering?

I'm not sure if this is the expected behavior in Outlook 2010 since I haven't found any documentation stating this. I'll submit a feedback regarding this issue via internal way and I'll keep you updated if I get any information. Since users who have Reviewer permission can only send a meeting request from his own account to the owner of the shared calendar and it won't make any confusion in the shared calendar, I'd recommend you ignore this behavior.

If I've misunderstood something, please feel free to let me know.

Regards, 

Steve Fan
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May 23rd, 2015 3:06am

Hi Steve,

Thanks for testing this issue and replying with your valuable feedback.

However our issue is delegates should not able to double click on shared calendar and open new meeting window at all (This is the default behavior in Outlook 2007,2013 & OWA, where when delegate try to double click on shared calendar then nothing happens, we need same behavior in Outlook 2010 also)

I hope this is not a default feature of Outlook 2010 to allow double click in shared calendar as I couldn't find any article stating that and it is impossible to convince user without any article.

-Sandesh



May 25th, 2015 3:22pm

Hi Steve,

Just like Sandesh concerns, I was wondering if there's a solution in place to disable a user with Reviewer permission on a shared calendar not to be able to click the shared calendar and send a meeting request.

Joel

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July 28th, 2015 11:25am

I can confirm the issue does not occur in Outlook 2013. Only Outlook 2010.

To summarise:

A User has reviewer permission on shared mailbox calendar 

 

Using an Outlook 2010 client, the user opens the shared calendar and double clicks. A New Meeting Request Window appears.

 

Using an Outlook 2013 client, the user opens the shared calendar and double clicks. A Permission Denied Message appears.

 

Is it possible to configure Outlook 2010 to exhibit the same behaviour as Outlook 2013?


  • Edited by AndrewPretty Friday, July 31, 2015 9:21 AM made clearer
July 31st, 2015 9:20am

Try the following adjustments and see if this resolves the issue!!!

The following task to be performed on the Outlook 2010 client:

1, Within Outlook, click Options from the Tools menu.

2, The Options dialog box appears. On the Preferences tab, under Calendar, click the Calendar Options button.

3, The Calendar Options dialog box appears. Under Calendar Options, remove the check beside the Allow attendees to propose new time for meetings you organize option.

4, Click OK to close the Calendar Options dialog box.

5, Click OK to close the Options dialog box.

http://www.extendoffice.com/documents/outlook/1530-outlook-allow-propose-new-time.html

Please confirm if this resolves the issue.

Thanks

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August 17th, 2015 5:10am

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