If you mail enable the security group, (or use a distribution group), then you can assign view permissions to the calendar via Outlook (or Powershell). We've used this in the past successfully.
-Aakash Shah From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of xyz Sent: Friday, November 8, 2013 4:38 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Exchange] Create Department Calendar - how to assign rights - some users with full and others with view only Greetings, Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 OUTLOOK 2013 clients Create Department Calendar - how to assign rights - some users with full and others with view only I do this all the time for Department mailboxes, but never had to focus on a Department calendar and more granular rights. What has worked here for a long time is ( I use the AD Security Groups as we have a lot of turnover and easy to add or remove users): EMC - create the mailbox DEPARTMENTX, link to AD object DEPARTMENTX. Create AD object Security Group DEPARMENTX-FULL RIGHTS (or whatever) Add all requested users to AD Security Group DEPARTMENTX-FULL RIGHTS. EMC - MAILBOX - MANAGE FULL ACCESS PERMISSION - add AD group DEPARTMENTX-FULL RIGHTS EMC - MAILBOX - MANAGE SEND AS PERMISSION - add AD group DEPARTMENTX-FULL RIGHTS This works great for all our departmental mailboxes, as the department managers always want their staff to have full mail access rights. The new twist that I have not done before, and want to keep it simple and hope to keep aligned with what I do above: DEPARTMENTY wants me to create a shared calendar with a few managers having full rights to make changes, and the rest of department staff having only VIEW rights. I am thinking what I do above will work for the managers for full access, but not sure what I need to do to make another Security Group like DEPARTMENTY-VIEW have only VIEW access to the calendar. What I can't figure out yet is how to assign AD security group DEPARTMENTY-VIEW to have only VIEW access to the calendar. Hoping for some suggestions as someone must have done this already? Thanks for any help. Dana
