When will Microsoft support calendar sharing over mobile devices?
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So we know Exchange activesync has never supported shared calendars on mobile devices. They've allowed for "subscribing" to a public calendar which only works on iPhone, but that's extremely limited. As more and more people work off mobile devices why hasn't Microsoft addressed this? I could maybe understand why this didn't work with Exchange 2010, but were on Exchange 2016 now. This is an area where Google has a huge advantage and it seems Microsoft has chosen not to compete. I just don't get it.
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Dude. From within your org, create a calendar, right click it from folder view and then hit share. Send an email to your friends and it will include the ICS attachment. Done. Works on Android, and the Android Outlook app works really, really well. it looks up stuff in the GAL and more.
Edit: I should point out that I am on a Nexus so your android experience may vary.
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Hi Grey,
Again, I mentioned subscribing to calendars above. Last time I looked into this, it wasn't possible to on Android, but now that Microsoft has the Outlook App for Android, I can see this working. This is still extremely limited.
I have clients that have employees that share multiple calendars and want to create/edit/delete appts on their phones. On Google, when a user adds their primary email address they automatically get all the shared calendars they have access to and their appropriate permissions. My work around for clients that need access to edit/delete/create appts on their devices is to create seperate calendar/contact accounts and then add those accounts separately to their phone. This takes additional time and shouldn't be nessecary.
