Grant Access to your Email or Calendar

Modified on Thu, 20 Feb at 3:32 PM


You can give a delegate access to your Microsoft Exchange calendar, contacts, and email, and you can set permissions that define the activities that delegates can carry out for you.

Add a delegate

  1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.

  2. Click Delegation and Sharing

  3. Under Delegates who can act on my behalf, click Add Add.

  4. Type the name of the person that you want to add as a delegate.

  5. Click the delegate's name in the search results list, and then click Add.

  6. In the Permissions box, select the permission level that you want to set for the delegate for each item type. 

If you would like to add calendar access change none to Editor. If you would like to add Email access change Inbox from none to Editor. If you are only granting Calendar access, leave Inbox as none.

If you want users to be able to view but not edit, change this option to Reviewer.


Remove a delegate

  1. On the Tools menu, click Accounts.

  2. Click the account for which you want to change permissions, click Advanced, and then click Delegates.

  3. Under Delegates who can act on my behalf, click the delegate.

  4. Click Delete Delete.



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