Question
How to publish a resource calendar to the internet in Office 365
Overview
These steps are to be performed by your department's administrator.
Answer
- Access the ECP panel - http://outlook.office365.com/ecp
- Go to Recipients and then resources
- Click to edit the resource you wish to publish the information
- Go to Mailbox Delegation
- Add your admin user the Full Access and Send on Behalf (full access may be enough) to this resource
- Save. Wait 5 to 10 minutes.
- Access your mailbox via Outlook Web App
- Click on your name, and select to open another user's mailbox.
- Type the name of the resource, and select Search. The name will appear. Select and open.
- It will now open the "mailbox" for the resource. Click on Calendar.
- Now in calendar, click on Sharing.
- Write your own email or the person you wish to share this resource calendar. Select full details or partial or free busy.
- Check your email. It will have the URL and instructions for your users.
Through Powershell
- To publish the calendar (replace alias with the name of the resource Mailbox)
- Set-MailboxCalendarFolder -Identity mailbox-alias:\calendar -PublishEnabled $true
- To retrieve the URL of the published calendar select
- Get-MailboxCalendarFolder -Identity mailbox-alias:\calendar