Change Calendar Permission in Exchange 2010

[AdamsAPlus]

Ok I have not used Exchange 2010 that much. I am still used to the older versions where you have the Exchange tabs in AD. Well now I'm trying to change a userA's permissions on userB's Calendar from AvailabilityOnly to Editor.

If I understand it right I need to use Set-MailboxFolderPermission. I have tried several things but keep getting different errors. I'm using the Exchange Management Shell

From what I have read it looks like it should be

Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity userB@workplace.com:\Calendar -User userA@workplace.com -AccessRights Editor

But I get The specified mailbox userB@workplace.com does not exist.

When I do

Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity userB@workplace.com:\Calendar

it works fine. What am I doing wrong?

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Yeah I miss the per-Exch 2007 days....really not into commandlet stuff with newer Exchanges.

Thus....I'm not well versed with memorizing the commandlets, however...since I'm old school and I prefer to keep doing things the old way with Exch 2k3 and 2k and 5.5....here's what I often do these days.

Log into a workstation as Administrator...and Outlook set to the Administrator account on the server. Work the permissions there from within Outlook.

 

[DenverCM]

I was just working on this same sorta problem a few days ago and was running into the same thing. Here's what worked for me:

set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity user1:\Calendar -User user2 -AccessRights PublishingAuthor

I believe you need to remove "@workplace.com"

 

[AdamsAPlus]

YeOldeStonecat - because of the time crunch, that is kind of what I did. I actually remoted onto the user's computer. Went into the calendar sharing permissions and changed it there.

But it feels like I'm going to be doing this every once in a while and I may not have access to the person's account.

So DenverCM, I put in my notes what you said to try. I will try that next time.

Also, I prefer to do stuff on the command line as opposed to logging onto someone's account. I liked when AD had exchange tabs and I wish I knew why they felt they needed to take it away. But once I learn all the Exchange commands then it won't matter to me. Talk about old school, I started out with a C64 and Apple IIe, and then moved onto Dos. Combine that with working with Linux and Unix, I'm pretty used to the command line.

This has prompted me to start working on my Microsoft Exchange Certifications. So I'll learn them

Thanks for the help

 

[DenverCM]

Glad you got it working. In my situation, changing the permissions via Outlook didn't work. But it worked fine changing them via PowerShell. Not sure why...

 

[AdamsAPlus]

Glad you got it working. In my situation, changing the permissions via Outlook didn't work. But it worked fine changing them via PowerShell. Not sure why...

Uhmmm. Yet another reason I would like to learn all the Exchange Powershell commands.