Sharing Office 365 Calendar with non-O365 users

This morning I was trying to setup calendar sharing for my personal calendar. My personal domain is hosted by Office 365, and there are lots of articles out there on how to share your calendar. But, when I entered in a user to share with and that user was on a non-O365 domain, I received this message:


I looked high and low for some advice on how to make this work, but couldn't find anything obvious. Then I stumbled across an obscure reference to setting up sharing with Anonymous domains in the Office 365 Admin Center.

1. Login to the O365 Admin Center.
2. Navigate to the Exchange Admin page.
3. Go to Organization settings, then Sharing.
4. Edit the default sharing policy under individual sharing.
5. Add a new sharing rule.
6. Select "Sharing with a specific domain", and enter "Anonymous" as the domain.
7. Save everything, then go back and share with a non-365 user.

Google OnHub - initial impressions

My Google OnHub was delivered this past weekend. Here's my initial thoughts:

• Packaging was very nicely done. Hardware these days comes in some really beautiful boxes that are well designed. I'd rate packaging 10/10.
• There are no instructions in the box. None. It was pretty intuitive to get it out of the box and figure out what to do, but I did hear from a friend that he wasn't sure how to get the outer shell off. He didn't want to break it by pulling or twisting the wrong way.
• Initial setup using an iPhone 6 with iOS 9 beta failed. After connecting to the setup Wifi network, the Google On app would never find the OnHub. I worked on this for about 45 minutes before giving up and trying the setup on an iOS 8 device. Setup worked perfectly.
• Once I figured the whole iOS 9 thing out, setup was so simple. Great job on making it painless!
• Wifi signal strength in our house has had a major upgrade. Corners of the house that were always very weak signal now have full strength connections.
• Throughput for both wireless and wired clients test out with speeds matching our service from Comcast.

I also like that I do not have to be connected to the local network in order to manage the OnHub. So, when someone at home can't connect, I can open the OnHub app anywhere I am and manage the network (so long as my home Internet connection is up). That's pretty cool!