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In Microsoft Outlook 14.0.7194.5000 (Microsoft Office Home and Business 2010) I have imported several calendars like school vacations etc. which I only want to look into (read). Unfortunately sometimes I accidently create calendar items in those calendars instead of the default one (which is visible to others). Thus it would be helpful if I could add some write protection to these calendars or at least somehow prevent creating items there.

So I opened the preferences of such a calendar and removed the Create items permission.

Calendar Properties

Apparently this has no effect. I can still create items there. Any idea?

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This is because you have Full Access permissions on your mailbox. Full Access permissions overwrite all other settings.

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  • Is there anything I can do about it?
    – Marcus
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 8:37
  • Remove FullAccess permissions from mailbox level and set permissions per folder. You can only do that as Exchange administrator (using PowerShell / EMC).
    – thims
    Commented Apr 4, 2018 at 12:29
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It could theoretically be possible using powershell as an exchange admin using Get or Set-mailboxfolderpermissions -identity %primaryemailalias%:\%folder% but that is a terrible idea in enterprise to be honest.

  1. Click File > Save Calendar to create a backup. You can re-import the calendar if something happens. There won't be any way to write protect your own calendar from yourself due to the mailbox folder permission structure.

  2. You could create a shared mailbox or 2nd mailbox/account that contains calendars and then give your main account read-only access to them. This can be done easily in enterprise but I don't know if that kind of sharing is possible between consumer live.com/outlook.com accounts.

I hope these ideas help :D

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