- In the Calendar app on your Mac, choose Calendar Preferences, then click Accounts. Select the calendar account, then click Delegation. A CalDAV account appears in the “Accounts I can access” list. For an Exchange account, click Add button, then enter the user name of the person who gave you access. To see a delegated account’s calendars in the main Calendar window, select Show.
- Mac Outlook does not yet display the shared calendars that users see in Outlook on the web & Windows. They're currently working on fixing this, but in the meantime, your users will have to go open each shared calendar in Outlook for Mac.
- Outlook Calendar Sharing Problems
- Open Shared Calendar Outlook For Mac
- Outlook For Mac Add Shared Calendar
Outlook can link to external, shared, calendars and copy any updates to that calendar. Like many parts of Outlook for Windows, it hasn’t changed much for many years. An Internet calendar can be for public events, holidays, sporting fixtures etc. This feature is available only in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 for Windows. For more information, see Calendar permissions differences in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013. To open a shared calendar in Outlook for Mac, the user must grant you permissions of Reviewer or higher. Go to Tools Accounts Advanced. Go to the Server tab Enable the Sync shared mailbox option. Go to the Delegates tab Open these additional mailboxes and add the desired user using the + sign. Restart Mac Outlook.
-->Original KB number: 2876443
![Calendar Calendar](/uploads/1/2/6/3/126391026/479968411.png)
Symptoms
Outlook Calendar Sharing Problems
A user grants you Free/Busy permission to their calendar, but when you try to open that user's calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac or Outlook for Mac 2011, you receive the following error message:
Outlook cannot open the folder. You do not have permission to open this folder. Contact <user_name> for permission.
![Mac Mac](/uploads/1/2/6/3/126391026/462919467.jpg)
Cause
Outlook for Mac cannot open another user's calendar when the user's Calendar folder permission level is set to Free/Busy. This feature is available only in Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013 for Windows.
For more information, see Calendar permissions differences in Outlook 2007, Outlook 2010 and Outlook 2013.
Open Shared Calendar Outlook For Mac
Resolution
To open a shared calendar in Outlook for Mac, the user must grant you permissions of Reviewer or higher. Or, you can view the user's Free/Busy information by creating a new meeting request and then adding that user in the Scheduling Assistant.
-->Original KB number: 3007307
Symptoms
When you open your Calendar in Microsoft Outlook 2016 for Mac, the Open Shared Calendar button on the ribbon is unavailable.
Additionally, when you point to Open on the File menu, the Calendar option is unavailable.
Cause
This issue occurs if the Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts check box is selected and the Hide On My Computer folders check box is cleared in General Preferences.
Workaround
To work around this issue, use one of the following methods:
Outlook For Mac Add Shared Calendar
- Select the Exchange folder in My Calendars.
- Open the calendar.
- Expand My Calendars to display the Exchange mailbox calendar, the On My Computer calendar, and calendars that are associated with any other accounts that are open in Outlook for Mac.
- Select the Exchange check box.After you do this, the Open Shared Calendar button on the ribbon is available.
- Open another user's Calendar.
- On the File menu, point to Open, and then select Other Users Folder.
- Search for and then select the user whose calendar you want to open.
- In the Folder Type box, select Calendar.
- Select Open.
- Change the preferences settings that are related to the On My Computer folders.
- On the Outlook menu, select Preferences.
- Select General.
- Clear the Group similar folders, such as Inboxes, from different accounts check box.
- If you want, select the Hide On My Computer folders check box.