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It's often necessary to schedule meetings with people outside your organization. To simplify the process of finding mutually agreeable meeting times, Office 365 enables you to make calendars available to "external users," those who need to see free/busy time but don't have user accounts for your Office 365 environment.
Calendar sharing is a global setting, meaning that you, the Office 365 admin, can enable it for all users in the tenant. Once sharing is enabled, users can use Outlook Web App to share their calendars with anyone inside or outside the organization. People inside the organization can view the shared calendar side-by-side with their own. People outside the organization will be sent a URL that they can use to view the calendar. Users decide when to share, how much to share, and when to keep their calendars private.
Note
If you want to share calendars with an organization that uses Exchange Server 2013 (an on-premises solution), the Exchange administrator will need to set up an authentication relationship with the cloud. This is known as "federation" and must meet minimum software requirements. See Sharing for more information.
Enable calendar sharing using the Office 365 admin center
Sign in to Office 365with your work or school account.
Select the app launcher icon
and choose Admin.Navigate to Settings > Services & add-ins.
On the Services & add-ins page, click Calendar.
On the Calendar page that opens, do one of the following:
For Let your users share their calendars with external users who have Office 365 or Exchange, move the slider to On to enable calendar sharing.
For Let your users share their calendars with external users who have Office 365 or Exchange, move the slider to Off to disable calendar sharing.
- If you want to allow anonymous users (users without logon credentials) to access calendars via an email invitation, for Allow anonymous users to access calendars with an email invitation, move the
slider to On.
When you select the check box to allow anonymous users, you'll have to decide what type of calendar information to make available to users. You can allow all information, or limit it. These choices specify the amount of information that your users can show on a case-by-case basis. Select one of the following:
Calendar free/busy information with time only
Calendar free/busy information with time, subject and location
All calendar appointment information
Invite people to access calendars
Once sharing is enabled for the tenant, calendar owners can extend invitations to specific users. See Sharing your calendar in Outlook Web App for instructions.