Question : Public Folders -  Can't create recurring appointment, yet has full permissions. Only user to experience error.

Hi there.

In Exchange one of our clients has a folder called Global Diary in a Public Folder. This Global Diary folder contains a shared calender for the user base. All the user's have permissions set to allow them to read and write entries into the calender, yet one user individually get's an error when trying to create a recurring appointment stating "Your changes could not be saved because you don't have permission to modify some or all of the items in the folder".

This one user is the only user to have this issue, all other users can create recurring appointments. I have tried giving this user full administrative rights over the folder yet she still has the issue.

Many thanks for any assistance on the matter.

Answer : Public Folders -  Can't create recurring appointment, yet has full permissions. Only user to experience error.

Hello Kieran, thank you for offering your assistance before.

As I stated above I was attempting to make a direct copy of the Calendar using the Exchange manager but was encountering error messages. You then suggested that I create a new Calendar and start again from fresh, which is a perfectly valid answer and I was going to actually go ahead with this.  However, I found a better solution which very little disruption.

I found that by copying the global calendar in Microsoft Outlook it creates a copy of the Calendar without any existing permissions. Therefore all I had to do was re-assign permissions and put the new copy in place of the old.

I hope this clears things up, Im not trying to be unappreciative of any assistance that has been offered nor am I trying to upstage anybody. I merely wanted to contribute to the knowledge base so I posted my solution.