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Can't globally enable or disable the birthday calendar

  • Applies to: Exchange Online, Outlook for Microsoft 365, New Outlook for Windows, Outlook 2021, Outlook 2019, Outlook 2016, Outlook on the web

Symptoms

You want to globally enable or disable the birthday calendar in Microsoft Outlook or Outlook on the web for all users in your Exchange Online organization. However, you don't see a tenant-level setting to do this.

Cause

Currently, it's not possible to enable or disable the birthday calendar at the tenant level.

Workaround

Ask each user to enable or disable the birthday calendar in their Outlook client or by using Outlook on the web.

Note

Birthday calendars for Exchange Online mailboxes are enabled by default.