Connecting M365/Outlook Calendar

Overview

This guide walks you through connecting your Microsoft 365/Outlook calendar system to SchoolCal, enabling automatic event synchronization between platforms. [Please provide 1-2 sentences explaining the primary benefit or problem this solves]

How To Connect Microsoft to SchoolCal

Step 1: Set up your Microsoft environment

1. Create a dedicated user account in Microsoft for SchoolCal (e.g., schoolcal@yourdomain.com)
2. Note that this account will be used as the default "calendar owner" for events created in general or resource calendars (if no other owner is specified)

Step 2: Connect Microsoft to SchoolCal

1. Sign in to SchoolCal with the Outlook SchoolCal user account you created earlier
2. Click "Settings" from the left-hand menu
3. Under "Administrators", add someone from your Outlook domain who is a super admin (has access to your tenant ID)
4. In a new browser window, go to app.schoolcal.com, this time logging in with Outlook using the super admin credentials you just added
5. Click the "Connections" tab
6. Click "Manage Connection" for the "Microsoft" connection type
7. Enter your Directory Tenant ID and click "Update Connection"
8. Refresh the page
9. Click the "Authorize" button
10. Click "Test Connection"