Outlook 2010 You cannot make changes to contents of this read-only folder.

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_{Tuesday, September 14, 2010 11:40 PM}

Hello all,

We are using an externally hosted exchange server and have webmail access.  We are running Office 2010, so we have configured Outlook 2010 for IMAP access to the webmail server.  When we share a calendar on the webmail server, we can mail the share information to other users and they can open the calendar in Outlook.  When we set the permission for users to be able to make changes in the calendar, through the web client it works fine but Outlook always comes up with the "You cannot make changes to contents of this read-only folder." error.

Is it possible to have Outlook 2010 allow a user ot make changes to a calendar that is shared and users have full permissions to?

Derek

All replies (5)

_{Wednesday, September 15, 2010 9:55 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

Try to give the owner permission to the users, to see if the problem can be resolved.

Best Regards,

Sally Tang

_{Monday, July 25, 2011 2:18 PM}

How do we give owner permission to the users?

_{Saturday, June 2, 2012 3:17 PM}

I am trying to find the answer

_{Wednesday, July 4, 2012 4:48 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

I've come across the same issue; two separated farms and neither would allow items to be added on sharepoint calendars from outlook. In the end, started investigating outlook.

You could try making sure that Use Cached Exchange Mode is not enabled in the outlook client itself to find out.

To do this, go to the backstage in outlook, Account Settings, highlight the email account, click Change.

A dialog will then appear, the Use Cached Exchange Mode can be turned off there.

Try then connecting a test sharepoint calendar and dragging items into them. This solution worked fine for me!

Note. Even if this works, this presents another issue for those who have laptops, and require that it is switched on - still investigating this with our illustrious exchange admins...

Hope this helps

Cheers

Geoff

_{Monday, July 30, 2012 11:33 PM}

I had the same issue, I unchecked the secretary's outlook profile from Cached Exchange mode and she could now create appointments on her bosses calendar. (this is SBS 2011 install).

Thanks for the help.