Free/Busy Calendar Access Mode
Free/Busy Calendar Access Mode is now available for Microsoft Graph connections. You can grant access to your organization’s calendar in Free/Busy mode if your integrator supports Free/Busy Access Mode:
The steps to connect your organizations calendar follows similar authorization flow to the steps found here but but you will be provided with a different screen instead where you will need to select Free/Busy:
Then from here you will need to select Office 365:
Once this has been selected you will be taken to the following screen to link your Office 365 tenant:
After selecting Link Office 365 Account you will see a screen similar to this.
To enable Enterprise Connect, log in to your Office 365 tenant as a user with Azure Active Directory Global Administrator access. This is the minimum required level of access to authorise your organizations calendars via Enterprsie Connect.
You’ll see this screen twice: first to confirm your Office 365 tenancy and then to request the necessary scopes for Enterprise Connect:
Confirm Tenant:
Confirm Scopes:
Once complete, you’ll be redirected back to your software vendor’s application where they’ll synchronise your user and resource calendars.
Which Scopes does Free/Busy Calendar Access mode request? #
Free/Busy Access mode currently requires the following scopes to be approved within your tenant:
- Delegated Scopes:
- User.Read.All
- Organization.Read.All
- Place.Read.All
- Calendars.ReadBasic.All
- offline_access
The current Microsoft scopes are in the process of getting reduced further for Free/Busy Access and this will be updated for Enterprise Connect, leading up to the 3rd of March. Please see the below for the upcoming changes to the scopes for Microsoft connections using Free/Busy access.
- Delegated Scopes:
- Calendars.ReadBasic
- User.Read
- offline_access