How to enable delegate access to an Office 365 or Exchange room or resource calendar?

In this article, we’ll go over the steps necessary to enable full delegate access to an Office 365 or Exchange room or resource calendar. SyncPenguin uses this permission to connect a room or resource calendar through a dedicated user or service account in order to two-way sync room calendars between or within tenants.

Office 365

The permission can be set through the Exchange admin center located here: https://admin.exchange.microsoft.com/

On the left menu, click Recipients, then Resources.

On the Resources page, click on the room you want to enable delegate access to.

Then, select the Delegation tab and click Edit near the Read and manage (Full Access).

Then, click + Add members to select a user or service account that will have full delegate access to the selected room or resource.

Exchange on-premises

You can also configure the delegation permissions via the following PowerShell command:

Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity [email protected]:\Calendar -User [email protected] -AccessRights Editor