Outlook: Grant partial or Selected access

You may want to allow others on your Exchange hosting account to see things in your Outlook folders. You can control access to things like you Calendar, Contacts, Inbox, etc.

This FAQ shows how to give Partial access to someone's folder. If you want someone to simply view, for example, your Calendar and then only to be able to View or Change appointments and meetings, use the method; "Grant partial/selected access".

  1. Go to the Go menu and choose "Folder List" or on the bottom of the left tree, click on the "Folder List" icon. In the Folder List, click the icon for the folder you want to share e.g Calendar
  2. Click on Folder (i.e Calendar), make a right click on your mouse, and then click Properties.
  3. Click the Permissions tab.
  4. Click Add to add the name of the user that you want to grant access to, or select Default.
  5. In Permissions, select the desired options, and then click OK.

Once you granted this access, the other party will need to open your shared resource in their Outlook.