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Restore Outlook's Classic Permissions Dialog

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Last reviewed on February 18, 2021     10 Comments

Applies to: Outlook 365 (Win)

Outlook has a simplified Permissions dialog, which is used on folders in Exchange accounts in your profile. Shared mailboxes and subfolders use the old "classic" permissions dialog.

The simplified dialog makes it clear what the permissions do, but it lacks the ability to customize the permissions or give another user Owner permissions.

outlook's permissions dialog

To create custom permissions or to give another user Owner permission, you need to use the classic permissions dialog.
classic permissions dialog

This registry key was added to Office in version 1903 to bring back the classic permissions dialog.

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar\
DWORD: ShowLegacySharingUX
Value: 1

ShowLegacySharingUX

More Information

The Exchange administrator can set permissions on mailbox folders.
Add-MailboxFolderPermission (ExchangePowerShell) | Microsoft Docs

Restore Outlook's Classic Permissions Dialog was last modified: February 18th, 2021 by Diane Poremsky

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About Diane Poremsky

A Microsoft Outlook Most Valuable Professional (MVP) since 1999, Diane is the author of several books, including Outlook 2013 Absolute Beginners Book. She also created video training CDs and online training classes for Microsoft Outlook. You can find her helping people online in Outlook Forums as well as in the Microsoft Answers and TechNet forums.

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Paul
March 19, 2024 5:07 am

Thanks from me as well, ran into this problem and this has saved me quite a bit of time.

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D man
February 27, 2024 12:44 pm

is there a way to switch from legacy view to simplified view? It seems to default to legacy view whether i assign the permission in powershell or the admin center

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February 29, 2024 3:44 pm

No, there is not. The folders in your mailbox use simplified view unless the key is set. Folders you have owner rights on but arent in your mailbox, use legacy view.

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Jeremy
May 4, 2023 11:16 am

Good one! Thanks for this :)

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Jerry
March 2, 2023 6:14 pm

This is amazing! Fixed our problem. The new dialog edit permission is not the same as the old one. I noticed in the test version on Outlook that they replaced the sharing window once again and this fix no longer brings up the old window. If anyone knows a way to manually update the server with the correct edit permissions please post. Once they update outlook to the newest UI we may lose the ability to correct the edit permission.

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Diane Poremsky
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March 2, 2023 9:57 pm

You are talking about the New Outlook that is in beta? (Outlook icon with Pre on it) That uses many of the same scripts that power Outlook on the web. There are currently few, if any, reg keys that work with it.

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Mike
September 27, 2022 4:49 am

Did fix my issue, thanks!

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san
September 6, 2022 7:14 am

Thanks, it helped me to restore old permissions dialog box in Outlook calendar. Microsoft simplifying things means that half of the functionality will be removed. 0 improvement, more complexity - pathetic. Wish we could go back in time 15 years where there was no shit moves like this.

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Keith
August 12, 2022 4:39 pm

Brilliant fix. thanks

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Marc
February 21, 2022 5:15 pm

Thanks for a great tip!

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