How can I create a shared calender. (not a public calender or or room resource)

Question

Hello all!
I would like to create a calendar in exchange that will be used by 5 employees and then only.
So far I crated a security group and added the users to it. I don't want to create '
Calendar in the Public Folders sections because we are moving away from Public Folders.
I also don't want to create it as a room mailbox either, because there is no
physical room associated with it. I just want these users to have read / write access to it.
Thanks in advance!
Phillip
Phil Balderos

Answer 1

I would highly suggest creating it as a room calendar, but only to allow these people access to it (as delegates). If you wish to allow conflicting "meetings", you want to AllowConflicts.  And to allow the entire meeting to be added, remove
all the ticks on the Resource Information properties page. To do this all at once, after you've created your new room mailbox, run the following single command:
Set-CalendarProcessing -Identity <new "room mailbox" alias> -AllowConflicts $true -ResourceDelegates <comma delimited list of delegate aliases> -OrganizerInfo $false -RemovePrivateProperty $false -AddOrganizerToSubject $false -DeleteNonCalendarItems
$false -DeleteSubject $false -DeleteComments $false -DeleteAttachments $false -AllBookInPolicy $false -BookInPolicy <same comma delimited list of delegates>
Once you have done this, you will need to change the default permissions on the calendar.  To do this, run the following command:
Set-MailboxFolderPermission <new "room mailbox" alias>:\Calendar -User Default -AccessRights None
After this, only the people you have listed as delegates will be able to see anything on the calendar, and only they will be able to book the calendar.