Turn Calendar on or off for users

As a Calendar administrator, you can control who in your organization uses Google Calendarfrom their account. People who have Calendar turned on can use it to manage and share schedules from their account.

To receive and process external Calendar invites, make sure the Gmail service is turned on. Unless you use Gmail as your primary email system, Calendar can only process external calendar invites that are forwarded from the primary email system to Gmail. 

Note: If Calendar is turned off, people don't see upcoming meetings in the My meetings section of Meet in the integrated Gmail experience. Learn more about  integrated Gmail .

To control who uses Calendar in your organization

1. Sign in with an administrator account to the Google Admin console.

   If you aren’t using an administrator account, you can’t access the Admin console.

   
2. Go to Menu  Apps > Google Workspace > Calendar .

   Requires having the Calendar > Settings administrator privilege .

3. Click  Service status.

4. To turn a service on or off for everyone in your organization, click  On for everyoneor  Off for everyone, and then click  Save.

5. (Optional) To turn a service on or off for an organizational unit:

   1. At the left, select the organizational unit.
   2. To change the Service status, select  Onor  Off.
   3. Choose one:
      • If the Service status is set to  Inherited and you want to keep the updated setting, even if the parent setting changes, click Override.
      • If the Service status is set to  Overridden, either click Inheritto revert to the same setting as its parent, or click  Saveto keep the new setting, even if the parent setting changes.
        Learn more about organizational structure .
6. (Optional) To turn on a service for a set of users across or within organizational units, select an access group. For details, go to Use groups to customize service access .

Changes can take up to 24 hours but typically happen more quickly.  Learn more

Next steps

After turning on Calendar: Set sharing permissions

• How Google handles user information in the app