Topic Last Modified: 2012-12-07

How you disable Internet calendar publishing depends on how you enabled it. If you created a sharing policy dedicated to Internet calendar publishing, you can either disable the policy or delete it altogether. If you configured Internet calendar publishing as a sharing rule in the default sharing policy, you can just remove the sharing rule for the Anonymous domain.

When you disable Internet calendar publishing, users who are provisioned to use the sharing policy won't be able to share calendar information with the Anonymous Internet domain specified in the policy. However, you can’t delete or disable a sharing policy that’s dedicated to Internet calendar publishing until all users who are provisioned to use that policy have the policy setting removed from their mailboxes. For details about changing the sharing policy setting for a user, see Manage User Mailboxes.

Note:
If you disable or delete a sharing policy, users provisioned to use the policy will continue to share information until the Sharing Policy Assistant runs. To specify how often the Sharing Policy Assistant runs, use the Set-MailboxServer cmdlet with the SharingPolicySchedule parameter.

To fully disable Internet calendar publishing, you should also disable the Outlook Web App virtual directory used for calendar publishing. Doing this prohibits access to the published calendar links previously shared by your Exchange organization users with external Internet users. This step is detailed later in this topic.

To learn more about Internet calendar publishing and sharing policies, see Sharing.

What do you need to know before you begin?

  • Estimated time to complete this task: 15 minutes.

  • You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure or procedures. To see what permissions you need, see the "Calendar and Sharing Permissions" entry in the Recipients Permissions topic.

  • For information about keyboard shortcuts that may apply to the procedures in this topic, see Keyboard Shortcuts in the Exchange Admin Center.

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How do you do this?

Step 1: Use the EAC or the Shell to disable or delete the sharing policy for Internet calendar publishing

Use the EAC

  1. Navigate to Organization > Sharing.

  2. In the list view, under Individual Sharing, perform one of the following steps:

    • If you created a sharing policy specifically for Internet calendar publishing, select that policy, and then either clear the check box in the ON column to disable the sharing policy or click Delete Delete Icon to delete it.

    • If you configured Internet calendar publishing as a sharing rule in the default sharing policy, perform the following steps:

      1. Select the default sharing policy, and then click Edit Edit Icon.

      2. In Sharing Policy, select the Anonymous sharing rule, and then click Remove Remove to remove the sharing rule.

      3. Click Save.

Use the Shell

This example disables a dedicated Internet calendar publishing sharing policy named Internet.

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Set-SharingPolicy -Identity "Internet" -Enabled $false

This example deletes a dedicated Internet calendar publishing sharing policy named Internet.

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Remove-SharingPolicy -Identity "Internet"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-SharingPolicy.

How do you know this step worked?

To verify that you have successfully removed or updated the sharing policy, run the following Shell command and verify the sharing policy information.

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Get-SharingPolicy <policy name> | format-list

If you’ve removed the dedicated Internet calendar publishing sharing policy, you won’t see the policy in the cmdlet results.

If you’ve updated the default sharing policy, verify that the Anonymous domain has been removed from the Domains parameter.

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-SharingPolicy.

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Step 2: Use the Shell to disable the Outlook Web App virtual directory Anonymous features

Note:
You can't use the EAC to disable Anonymous features for the Outlook Web App virtual directory.

This example disables Anonymous features for the Outlook Web App virtual directory on Client Access server CAS01.

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Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -Identity "CAS01" - AnonymousFeaturesEnabled -$false

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-OwaVirtualDirectory.

How do you know this step worked?

To verify that you have successfully disabled the Anonymous features for the Outlook Web App virtual directory on the Client Access server, run the following Shell command and verify that the AnonymousFeaturesEnabled parameter is $false.

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Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | format-list

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-OwaVirtualDirectory.

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