Getting a user's calendar folder permissions in Exchange via PowerShell is pretty straight forward as you can just use the standard <code>:\\Calendar</code> naming convention like below:
<pre><code class="lang-powershell">Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity user@domain:\\Calendar
</code></pre>

This works fine if the user's mailbox language is set to English but what if they have it set to something else, like perhaps German? Well you probably guessed correctly that the native spelling of calendar (Kalender) is used. Luckily we can query the user's mailbox to find out what folders are available and filter them to find the primary calendar directory:
<pre><code class="lang-powershell">$calendarFolder = Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user@domain -FolderScope Calendar | Where-Object { $\_.FolderType -eq 'Calendar'} | Select-Object Name, FolderId
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderstatistics?view=exchange-ps">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderstatistics?view=exchange-ps</a>
</blockquote>
This will get the user's default calendar. If you wanted to get a particular a secondary calendar you can omit the where clause.
Now that we have the folderId we can use the first command to get the folder permissions:
<pre><code class="lang-powershell">Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "$user@domain:$($calendarFolder.FolderId)"
</code></pre>
<blockquote>
<a target="_blank" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderpermission?view=exchange-ps">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderpermission?view=exchange-ps</a>
</blockquote>
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Getting a user's calendar folder permissions in Exchange via PowerShell is pretty straight forward as you can just use the standard `:\\Calendar` naming convention like below:

```powershell
Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity user@domain:\\Calendar
```



This works fine if the user's mailbox language is set to English but what if they have it set to something else, like perhaps German? Well you probably guessed correctly that the native spelling of calendar (Kalender) is used. Luckily we can query the user's mailbox to find out what folders are available and filter them to find the primary calendar directory:

```powershell
$calendarFolder = Get-MailboxFolderStatistics -Identity user@domain -FolderScope Calendar | Where-Object { $\_.FolderType -eq 'Calendar'} | Select-Object Name, FolderId
```

> [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderstatistics?view=exchange-ps](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderstatistics?view=exchange-ps)

This will get the user's default calendar. If you wanted to get a particular a secondary calendar you can omit the where clause.

Now that we have the **folderId** we can use the first command to get the folder permissions:

```powershell
Get-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity "$user@domain:$($calendarFolder.FolderId)"
```

> [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderpermission?view=exchange-ps](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/exchange/mailboxes/get-mailboxfolderpermission?view=exchange-ps)

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Exchange PowerShell - Get calendar folder permissions in any language

A dumping ground for thoughts and fixes. Mostly to do with automation, especially for Microsoft products such as M365, Azure, Dynamics, Power Platform, PowerShell & C#


A dumping ground for thoughts and fixes. Mostly to do with automation, especially for Microsoft products such as M365, Azure, Dynamics, Power Platform, PowerShell &amp; C#
