Boss wants view access to Calendars

[Thom Green]

The Boss wants to be able to view everyones calendars, in order for him to
set up meetings. Where if the individual necessary is not available at a
certain time he can find out why (is it personal or business), without 4-6
emails back and forth.

I would really like to do this without going to everyone's workstation and
setting this option.

Any ideas or solutions would be greatly appreciated.

Thom Green

[Chris Scharff]

Send a message to 'everyone' telling them the boss wants to know
everything you do, and give them step by baby step instructions on how
to grant the boss permission to their calendar.

Or you can grant yourself owner permission to the mailboxes, add their
mailbox to your profile and grant it for them... less work to have
them do it themselves.

Of course my response to such an e-mail would be to "accidentally"
delete it, but then my boss can delete my mailbox anytime he wants, I
tend to show up when directed to ;)

Chris Scharff
Exchange Administrator
BV Solutions Group

#include std_disclaim.h

[Bryan Thrasher]

Has your boos looked at using the Meeting Request form? It shows you who's
busy and who's available without having to work i out on each calendar.
It's much easier to use.

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[Thom Green]

Yes, he is completely aware of how to use the meeting request form, and view
who is busy/out-of-office, etc.

He is the epitemy of a power Outlook user.

I gather then from the previous response from Chris that there is not easy
way to accomplish this through the Exchange Administrator?

Thom Green

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[Brian Battle]

You, as an administrator, can add people's mailboxes in the advanced tab of
your mail profile. When you open outlook, their calendar will be available
for you to set the permissions for your boss to read them. Then he can just
do a file/open other users folder/calendar whatever folder. If there aren't
too many users, this won't be too much of a hassle, otherwise the email
telling the users to do it would definetly work.

Brian

[Chris Scharff]

My close personal friend "Thom Green" wrote:

>Yes, he is completely aware of how to use the meeting request form, and view
>who is busy/out-of-office, etc.
>
>He is the epitemy of a power Outlook user.
>
>I gather then from the previous response from Chris that there is not easy
>way to accomplish this through the Exchange Administrator?

Nope, and as far as I'm aware (not being a coder) CDO and ADSI are not
able to modify permissions properties on folders, so a coded/
automated method is not available.

You could grant your boss owner permissions to every mailbox, but
unless there is a more compelling reason for him to have that level of
access than the one you've mentioned, there's no way in hell I'd do
that (personally).

I think an e-mail with, "Please grant me reviewer permissions to your
calendar by doing the following..." is the fastest and easiest
solution... that I am aware of anyway.

Perhaps someone else will have a better solution.