How to set Microsoft 365 Group Calendar members permissions to read only

Christopher Talke Buscaino

🏃🏽‍♂️🏃🏽‍♀️ The Short Answer

You're in a hurry aye? No dramas...

This post assumes that you have already:

  • Connected to Microsoft 365 with the Powershell Module
  • AND connected to Exchange Online with the Powershell Module

If you've completed these steps, then please go ahead and check out the below instructions.

✅ Turning on Read-Only

Set-UnifiedGroup <Display Name> -CalendarMemberReadOnly
Please note

- That this will come back with a warning stating that the command completed successfully but no settings of 'Display Name' have been modified.

- This is incorrect, the value actually has changed, and you can do this by referring to the 'Checking the value' commmand listed in this post.

⛔ Disabling Read-Only

Set-UnifiedGroup <Display Name> -CalendarMemberReadOnly:$false
Please note

- That this will come back with a warning stating that the command completed successfully but no settings of 'Display Name' have been modified.

- This is incorrect, the value actually has changed, and you can do this by referring to the 'Checking the value' commmand listed in this post.

*� Checking The Read-Only Setting

Get-UnifiedGroup <Display Name> -IncludeAllProperties | Select-Object -Property CalendarMemberReadOnly

OR

Get-UnifiedGroup <Display Name> -IncludeAllProperties | Format-List

Here is an example if you want to enable the CalendarMemberReadOnly for a few groups at a time, this is using a hardcoded list of Display Names, however, you could easily combine the -Filter flag on the Get-UnifiedGroup module to dynamically create this list from a property.

$groups = @("Group 1","Group 2","Group 3","Group 4")
for ($i = 0; $i -lt $groups.Count; $i++) {
    Set-UnifiedGroup $groups[$i] -CalendarMemberReadOnly
    Get-UnifiedGroup $groups[$i] -IncludeAllProperties | Select-Object -Property CalendarMemberReadOnly
}

The Long Answer

Reading the Microsoft Documentation... 😭 here are the relevant links that I used for this research: