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The Sharing policy doesn’t allow you to grant certain permissions to users on CalendarFolder folder “Calendar”

The Sharing policy doesn’t allow you to grant certain permissions to users on CalendarFolder folder “Calendar”

When attempting to share Calendars between users via powershell, I encountered an error stating:

The Sharing policy doesn’t allow you to grant certain permissions to users on CalendarFolder folder “Calendar”

Sharing Policy Doesnt Allow You To Grant Certain Permissions

The first cmdlet I used was:

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity [email protected]:\Calendar -User [email protected] -AccessRights Author

This returned the error above.

I tried sharing again, referring to the users with just their aliases:

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity nick.lastname -User claire.lastname -AccessRights Author

This resulted in the following error which points to the real issue:

The specified mailbox “nick.lastname” isn’t unique.

Specified Mailbox Isn't Unique

In this tenant, we have multiple users with the same alias and different domain names – eg. [email protected] and [email protected]

The Add-MailboxFolderPermission cmdlet might require that the users have unique aliases. To resolve this, I changed the user’s alias to something unique using the Set-Mailbox cmdlet

Set-Mailbox -identity [email protected] -Alias nick.lastnamedomain1

Change Alias To Add Permissions

Once this was resolved for the affected users, I could add the mailbox permission without issue by referring to the users by their unique aliases:

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity nick.lastnamedomain1:\Calendar -User claire.lastnamedomain1 -AccessRights Author
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