Exchange 2013 Calendars - Outside of Exchange

Sparkum

Hey guys.

Can you grant read/write permission using an exchange 2013 mailbox to someone not on exchange?

I can see 100 ways to do it exchange -> exchange, but not exchange -> external

Thanks

KyleCaminita

no

bbigford

@Sparkum said:

Hey guys.

Can you grant read/write permission using an exchange 2013 mailbox to someone not on exchange?

I can see 100 ways to do it exchange -> exchange, but not exchange -> external

Thanks

Nope. Do not do that. That would be a security issue. Exchange is for an organization, if you're not in the organization, then you're not in Exchange. If you want to give them mailbox permissions, then you'll need to create them a mailbox, which will also create an Active Directory account by default so keep that in mind...

bbigford

I'm guessing this is for an external contact?

Sparkum

@BBigford

To add more context

Its actually for employee's we just havent finished migrating them all over to exchange yet, and with so much going on it could be atleast 6 months before the transition is complete.

So we just need the shared calendar today, with the intent that they WILL all be on exchange.

bbigford

@Sparkum said:

@BBigford

To add more context

Its actually for employee's we just havent finished migrating them all over to exchange yet, and with so much going on it could be atleast 6 months before the transition is complete.

So we just need the shared calendar today, with the intent that they WILL all be on exchange.

Ah, I've had to deal with that before. So you have two options to make this as easy to manage as possible:

*Don't muck up your Exchange instance by adding in all the people that aren't in Exchange yet. When you can add them (whether it is for financial reasons or whatever), do the additions at that time.

*Have them use something like a Gmail account until they can make the transition. Having everyone use the same format for their email address, like [email protected] or however you want to do it. If my company was First Company of Idaho, maybe I'd do something like [email protected]

Dashrender

You could have who ever is responsible for the shared calendar publish it, assuming the information can be open to the public.