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Team Member Permissions - Personalization Settings

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When a Team Member in our organization tries to change their time zone in their personalization settings, it's greyed out and they are unable to make changes.  Shouldn't any user despite license be able to make a change like that?

This is causing a problem when setting up appointments to include various Team Members. Some already in the correct time zone will get the invite with no issues.  However, those on a different time zone will not get the invite at the correct time.  Is there a work-around for this?

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    DonaW Profile Picture
    DonaW 23 on at
    RE: Team Member Permissions - Personalization Settings

    Thank you, was able to change the User settings to write priveledges.

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    Shawnsauve Profile Picture
    Shawnsauve 1,089 on at
    RE: Team Member Permissions - Personalization Settings

    By default, all users in Dynamics 365 should be able to change their time zone in their personalization settings, regardless of their license type. It's possible that there is a specific security role or customizations in your organization that are preventing team members from changing their time zone.

    To troubleshoot this issue, you can try the following steps:

    1. Check the security roles assigned to the team member who is unable to change their time zone. Make sure that they have the "System Administrator" or "System Customizer" role, or a custom role that has the "Write User Settings" privilege.

    2. Check if there are any customizations or plugins in your organization that are preventing team members from changing their time zone. You can do this by temporarily disabling any customizations or plugins related to user settings, and then check if the team member is able to change their time zone.

    3. If the issue persists, you can try resetting the user's personalization settings by going to Settings > Options > Personalization Settings, and then click the "Reset to defaults" button. Note that this will reset all of the user's personalization settings, not just the time zone.

    As for a workaround for the issue with appointments, one possible solution is to set the time zone for each appointment explicitly when creating it, rather than relying on the default time zone of the user. You can do this by clicking the "Time Zone" button in the appointment form and selecting the appropriate time zone. This way, even if the team member's time zone setting is incorrect, the appointment will be displayed at the correct time.

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    Leah Ju Profile Picture
    Leah Ju Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: Team Member Permissions - Personalization Settings

    Hi DonaW,

    All users can't change it? or someone?

    Have you checked security roles of these users?

    --Go to Security Roles --> Business Management --> User Settings, give sufficient write privilege.

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    Or you can try to use XrmToolBox--User Settings Utility to set other User’s time zone:

    --Instead of asking out each user to manually update their personalization settings, the administrators can update the user settings from backend without concerning the end users.

    https://d365demystified.com/2021/12/02/set-other-users-time-zone-in-bulk-using-user-settings-utility-xrmtoolbox/ 

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