#ADDING GOOGLE CALENDAR TO OUTLOOK 2016 FOR MAC OFFICE 365 UPDATE#

Changes made in Google Calendar, for example, may update in Outlook. The problem many users face is syncing those calendars for updates, especially bidirectionally. The Outlook client can open several types of calendars, and it does an excellent job of displaying an overlay view of multiple calendars. So, it's somewhat surprising that the calendaring function in Outlook 365/Outlook 2016 for Windows has almost no facility for two-way syncing with anything other than another Exchange-supported Outlook calendar.

#ADDING GOOGLE CALENDAR TO OUTLOOK 2016 FOR MAC OFFICE 365 SOFTWARE#

For more information, please visit the Office Help & Training site.Microsoft Outlook is a complex, multifunctional software package, jam-packed with options and features. You'll see both calendars listed under the user but then you'll only see proper data for the secondary calendar.

Using Outlook 2016 for the Mac, you can 'Open Shared Calendar' for the person who granted you the permissions. Once this has been completed by the owner of the secondary calendar, you should be able to successfully access the secondary calendar using Outlook 2016/2011 for Mac. Select the user and then choose the desired permission level – must be set to “Reviewer” or higher.Click Add and search for and add the user you want to share with (same one as above).Right-click on the secondary calendar and select ‘Properties’ from the sub-menu.It may take minutes for this action to complete. Outlook may go into ‘not responding’ mode – be patient.Uncheck “Create Items” from within the ‘Write’ group and click Apply.

Select the user and then choose “Contributor” from the permissions level select box.

Click Add and search for and add the user you want to share with.

Right-click on primary “Calendar” and select ‘Properties’ from the sub-menu.

Then continue to grant permissions section Left click-hold the secondary calendar and drag it on top of the primary 'Calendar' and release. if so: continue to the grant permissions section If not: move the secondary calendar to the primary 'Calendar' - Within Outlook, choose 'Calendar' from the navigation bar along the bottom.

See if the secondary calendar is a sub-folder of the primary 'Calendar'.

If the secondary calendar was created using Outlook on the web, then skip to the grant permissions section.

Verify if the secondary calendar is a sub-calendar of the primary 'Calendar': Important: Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working with Apple to find a better workflow than requiring the owner of the calendar to have to use an Outlook desktop client to set the permissions.

#ADDING GOOGLE CALENDAR TO OUTLOOK 2016 FOR MAC OFFICE 365 HOW TO#

In this document, you will learn how to share a secondary calendar (not the primary 'Calendar') so that a user who is using Outlook 2016/2011 for Mac can open/subscribe to it.

You have been granted permissions to a secondary calendar and the permissions are not set correctly.

Ask the owner of the calendar to grant you the appropriate permissions. Any permission below this level will cause this error and the calendar will not be opened.

At a minimum, you will need 'full details' permissions to open a calendar.

There are a couple of reasons why this error can occur: When you attempt to open or subscribe to a another user's calendar via Outlook 2016/2011 for the Mac, you receive the error below:

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