Office 365 Community Calendar
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Having received the new years calendar for holiday and paydays for the office, I wonder if there is a way to publish that information to all accounts. I know I can create my own calendar and go that route. But I would like to publish it to all of the 104 accounts in our agency.
Is it even possible?
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We have a "public" account that hosts the calendar. I really want to setup something besides this as it is clunky.
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What you normally do is create a holiday calendar somewhere and share that. SharePoint is perfect for that.
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Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
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@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.
Great idea, I know that works on i-devices, I'm not sure about android.
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.
Great idea, I know that works on i-devices, I'm not sure about android.
We have 3 Android devices so far. The user actually has to go through some significant effort to send mail as that other account if it isn't synced. I've also turned off external delivery for that mailbox so it will only send mail internally. I really don't recommend this unless it is a last resort, it is finicky and sometimes the phones just stop updating the calendar for some reason, the only fix is to remove that account and re-add it at least so far.
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@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.
Great idea, I know that works on i-devices, I'm not sure about android.
We have 3 Android devices so far. The user actually has to go through some significant effort to send mail as that other account if it isn't synced. I've also turned off external delivery for that mailbox so it will only send mail internally. I really don't recommend this unless it is a last resort, it is finicky and sometimes the phones just stop updating the calendar for some reason, the only fix is to remove that account and re-add it at least so far.
From your lips to god's ears! I'm dealing with this issue right now with several iPhones - for whatever reason random iPhones will refuse to sync a random appointment here or there, but others before or after seem to work just fine.
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@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
@coliver said:
@Dashrender said:
Along these same lines, I've had a request to find a way to add the oncall schedule to all of our physician calendars so they also get the information on their phone, not just in Outlook. Is this possible?
Not that i have found. We add the "public" account to each users phone and just sync the calendar. I believe if you had something like Sharepoint you could sync it correctly.
So you created another mailbox, granted everyone rights to it that needed it, then you sync two accounts on their device, the users own mailbox and the "public" box?
If this is right, do you have problems with people sending email from the wrong account on the device?
Correct. I turn off syncing of mail to the public account. Which seems to prevent them from sending mail as that account.
Great idea, I know that works on i-devices, I'm not sure about android.
We have 3 Android devices so far. The user actually has to go through some significant effort to send mail as that other account if it isn't synced. I've also turned off external delivery for that mailbox so it will only send mail internally. I really don't recommend this unless it is a last resort, it is finicky and sometimes the phones just stop updating the calendar for some reason, the only fix is to remove that account and re-add it at least so far.
From your lips to god's ears! I'm dealing with this issue right now with several iPhones - for whatever reason random iPhones will refuse to sync a random appointment here or there, but others before or after seem to work just fine.
Yep... the only fix I've found thus far is to remove the entire account and re-sync it. We have ~3500 calendar reservations that get synced so it is a pain for users to do.
