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Admin managed shared calendars

Hi, 

I am a workspaces admin in my company.

I have been asked to create a shared calendars for several groups.

Is there a way to centraly manage shared calendars at the admin level?

Something similar to the way shared folders in Gdrive works...?!

 

Thanks! 

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@Ohadzebra a Google Workspace Super Admin has owner access to any Google Calendar in your Google Workspace domain, so any super admin can add the calendars to their own Google Calendar to manage them.  Since the super admin has owner access then the super admin can grant any access level to anyone, so you could make an account with specific role of editing these calendars.

It is however not clear where in the Admin Console you can find all the Shared Calendars created by the workspace members...

I spoke to Google support this afternoon and as a super admin you can't find all the shared calenders, you only have access to the primary calendars in your workspace.

so... who can see all the calendars?

As an admin you have the permissions to subscribe to any user's primary calendar. You will have owner permissions on these calendars!

I can access all my users' calendars. But I need to locate all the secondary calendars that people created for their teams or just for separate tasks, and I cannot since I don't know the names of those calendars. Or am I missing something? 

Hey, did you ever get a clear response on this? I'm looking to create a secondary calendar that others within the org will see when they search for my name. Currently they only see my main calendar. I don't want to have to share it all the time, just make it viewable. Thoughts?

If you want to make a secondary calendar viewable/accessible to users all the time, then use GAM to add users (individually or by group) to the ACL, and then add the secondary calendar to their list of calendars.

Add a Group to the ACL of a secondary calendar  will allow for future additions/deletions to the Group and hence access to the calendar. That said, access to any calendar via the ACL doesn't provide for it's visibility in a user's list of calendars - that has to be done with GAM or manually subscribing to the calendar by link.

Hi, 

Thank you for sharing your thoughts.

There are several admins in my account, I need them all to be able to manage shared calendars in a central way.

 

Can I, as a super admin, see a list of all calendars?

I can browse through all of the users in my environments for their primary calendar. If a user have created a second calendar and he shared it with someone, how can I see that?

 

I can think about using the Resource management, but this does not allow me to set permissions.

 

Thank!

 

 

There are many Calendar management capabilities with GAM.

Fetch all calendars to a spreadsheet:  gam all users print calendars todrive

ref: GAMADV-XTD3 COMMANDS 

ref: GAM cheatsheet 

We have a tool, Patronum (https://www.patronum.io/) that can help you see and manage Google calendars on a user basis.

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