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Remove Calendar or access to calendar for users

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Hello, I have a situation where an organization has asked me to remove access to individual calendars to force them to use a shared or group calendar instead so that User A cannot access or cannot use his own calendar, but must instead use the shared calendar of user B or Group Calendar C to post meetings, etc....
It seems that the cmdlet Remove-MailboxFolderPermsission -identity userA:\calendar -user userA will not remove permissions of the mailbox owner. (Unless there is a switch I'm unaware of?)
That said, is there a way to accomplish what is being asked of me?
Personally, I think they are trying to solve an HR issue with technology, but I want to make my client happy and this is a technically interesting task!
Thank you for your insight and assistance!
Jason
Saturday, May 26, 2012 2:54 AM
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That said, is there a way to accomplish what is being asked of me?
Jason
NO, there's no way that you can prevent the owner of the mailbox to access his/her own calendar.
Martina Miskovic
- Proposed as answer by Andy DavidMVP Saturday, May 26, 2012 12:58 PM
- Marked as answer by Zi FengModerator Monday, June 4, 2012 2:51 AM
Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:30 AM
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That said, is there a way to accomplish what is being asked of me?
Jason
NO, there's no way that you can prevent the owner of the mailbox to access his/her own calendar.
Martina Miskovic
- Proposed as answer by Andy DavidMVP Saturday, May 26, 2012 12:58 PM
- Marked as answer by Zi FengModerator Monday, June 4, 2012 2:51 AM
Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:30 AM -
Thank you very much for your reply Martina -- are you quite certain it cannot be done?
Does anyone disagree or have ideas for creative workarounds to accomplish the task?
Saturday, May 26, 2012 3:27 PM -
There's a not-so-pretty way to do this.
You could give this user a second mailbox with the appropriate permissions to the first. You'd have to iron out things like how the user sends mail, contacts, and a few other issues, some of which could be handled with transport rules.Saturday, May 26, 2012 4:21 PM -
Thank you very much for your reply Martina -- are you quite certain it cannot be done?
Yes, I'm 100% sure. It can't be done.Martina Miskovic
Sunday, May 27, 2012 6:10 AM -