View another persons calendar details in Outlook 2010

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Solution 1

Go to your calendar. On the Ribbon click on "Share calendar". This generates a (special) email. Put in a recipient and then click the check box to request their permission to see their calendar. Optionally untick the one that shares yours with them.

Hope this helps

Solution 2

For Sysadmins:

From exchange, find the calander item and right click, choose "Manage Full Access" and click "Add" on the windo that appears. type in the username of the person requesting access to the calander and hit "ok". The user should be able to add the calander to their outlook client and see more specific information instead of just free/busy. I just tried this earlier on today for one of our staff and it worked for me.

Solution 3

If you just want to quickly see availability on a certain day without requesting access to their calendar, I use the following regularly:

Go to Calendar view
Choose "New Meeting"
Put the other persons outlook address in the "To:" field
Conflicts and available times appear on the right

It looks like this

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Comments

SqlRyan over 1 year

I know how to view somebody else's calendar - there are 100 walk-throughs like this one on Google. However, this feature has changed in Outlook 2010, and you no longer get prompted for rights to view another person's calendar, and Outlook just displays their "Free/Busy" information, which doesn't help me.

I'd like to request permissions to view the details of their appointments, but I can't find any place to request permissions on their calendar - Outlook 2010 just gives me "Free/Busy" rights and then appears to have no option to request additional rights. Can anybody point me in the right direction?
SqlRyan almost 14 years

I assumed "Share Calendar" was about showing people my own calendar, but clearly it's about both. +15 to you.
TheModularMind almost 14 years

This is another example of functionality in Office which is getting hidden through trying to simplify the interface. Even changing the name of the button to "Calendar Sharing" might have made this more discoverable.
ganesh over 10 years

Aye. I never would have found this without reading this post and its answer.
Duncan Jones over 8 years

IME, this doesn't guarantee you receive a particular set of rights on their calendar. You can only specify what you want to share with them and hope they reciprocate.