Creating and Sharing a Personal Calendar in Exchange

Many times Exchange users want to share a personal calendar with coworkers without jumping through the hoops of requesting a new shared or resource mailbox. I’m going to tell you how to do that without setting delegates or giving away more information than you want. (These instructions are for Outlook 2016, but they should be pretty close for 2013 & 2010.)   1. Switch Outlook […]

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Unable to share a folder “because of permission settings on your network”

In any Exchange environment, Outlook will frequently return this error when you try to share a calendar or some other folder: Calendar sharing is not available with the following entries because of permission settings on your network: John Doe (john.doe@mydomain.com) Do you want to send them a copy of this calendar in an e-mail message instead? Yes        No The problem almost never has anything to […]

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Lync error: Some sharing features are unavailable due to server connectivity issues

I had a number of customers tell me they were receiving errors when attempting to view or share a PowerPoint presentation via Lync 2010. They would see this error on the Lync Stage: Some sharing features are unavailable due to server connectivity issues. In the main Lync Conversation window, they would see these two errors together in yellow bars between toolbar and the call controls: […]

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Error when attempting to share a Powerpoint presentation in Lync 2010

I recently a problem with a Lync user who was trying to share a Powerpoint presentation in an online meeting. When she tried to share the presentation, she received this error: Some sharing features are unavailable due to server connectivity issues. The immediate workaround was to share her desktop instead of the pptx file while I tried to figure out what was wrong. Every other […]

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