Managed Shared Mailbox Work Hours - With the new Outlook mailbox settings

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Managed Shared Mailbox Work Hours - With the new Outlook mailbox settings

Boris P 40

Greetings,
I came for simple-minded questions I have to ask somewhere.

One user had an issue with greyed out work week settings, but that is not why I am here.I

A user wanted to set the work week for a Shared Mailbox, through Outlook settings > Calendar > Work week.
It was greyed out, but that's a different problem, not why I am here.

Can a user from the GUI modify the work week / hours / location for a specific calendar, which is not his profile calendar? More specifically, for a Shared Mailbox calendar.

I found no way of selecting a different Calendar to apply hours on.

I set it with:

Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -WorkDays -WorkingHoursStartTime -WorkingHoursEndTime -WorkingHoursTimeZone

But this command also displays a warning, recommending the use of Get-EventsFromEmailConfiguration which is not affecting the same settings.

I can't find an alternative that would include the new, more granular settings of the work week offered in OWA / New Outlook.

Is there a CLI way of affecting those new settings? (Different locations and work hours for each day).
I've been spending time on it since last week, and got an open ticket with our 365 support, but I am curious.

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Hi @Boris P ，

Can a user from the GUI modify the work week / hours / location for a specific calendar, which is not his profile calendar? More specifically, for a Shared Mailbox calendar.

Seems like no. I tried testing in my lab tenant and also failed to set this for a shared mailbox calendar from OWA > open another mailbox. The settings are all grayed out with the message below:
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Is there a CLI way of affecting those new settings? (Different locations and work hours for each day).

I am afraid no, at present, there's no CLI way or other options available for administrators to manage the new Working Hours and Location settings for a mailbox.

As you have mentioned, this new setup experience is currently only available to end-users in Outlook for the web and the New Outlook for Windows. See this official document. While for administrators, based on what I've learnt, no options have been provided for administrators to control this feature for users.

Given this, I've provided your feedback through the official feedback portal. The link would be left below so that both you and other users who see this thread can vote it up or comment there. Hopefully this administrator functionality can be added soon.

https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/efa36997-472c-ee11-a81c-6045bd8534ad

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Boris P 40 Reputation points

2023-07-27T09:26:46.17+00:00

Thanks for the quick and comprehensive answer, that is all I wanted to know.

And you even answered the most simple-minded question I had which I dared not to speak :^)
Yuki Sun-MSFT 41,376 Reputation points Moderator

2023-07-27T09:45:43.5+00:00

Glad to know that it helped : )

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