Entourage/Outlook Permissions on Calendar differ (Full Details notchecked in Read area)

[Bill Bryson]

I use and support both Entourage and Outlook users. In the course of
troubleshooting a calendar sharing problem I ran across a difference between
how Outlook shows permissions on a calendar from how Entourage shows it.

For example, if I set the permission for a user to be "Reviewer" using the
Entourage calendar and then open the same account using Outlook 2007 the
setting is set to "Custom". The difference between this "custom" setting
and the "Reviewer" setting is that the Full Details radio button is not
selected. The Entourage client does not show this level of detail.

So it appears that Entourage is not setting the Full Details attribute when
it is setting such permission levels about Contributor.

Any thoughts on the negative ramifications of this inconsistency?

Bill

 

[Bill Bryson]

FYI,

Evidently this is a known feature of EWS and how it sets permissions. Seems
a bit sloppy to me.

Text:

"This is where we encounter our first caveat as I said in a previous post
the permission roles you set in Outlook don¹t reflect the permissions level
returned by EWS. So for most of the Outlook Roles you set you would see that
as a custom permission in EWS (apart from FreeBusy rights which are
reflected correctly). To work around this I created a few helper routines to
convert the custom permissions that EWS returns back to the appropriate
Outlook Roles which is handy if you¹re trying to document or check the
permissions that have been set via Outlook. And also some helpers so when
you want to set permissions instead of using the EWS calendar permission
that will be reflected as Custom permissions when viewed in Outlook you will
see the correct Outlook role set. This is a hard one to explain its just one
of the current nuances of EWS. An example of using one of the helper
routines to set an ACE to an outlook role for a user your adding to the
calendar DACL you would need to use one of the following lines depending on
the Outlook Role you wanted to set."

from:

http://gsexdev.blogspot.com/2008/03/class-library-helper-for-setting.html