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Module name/project name: Microsoft 365 FullCalendar
Brief history How old: created just last month, August 19 2026, by fabianderijk of Finalist Versions available: 1.0.0, which works with Drupal 11
Maintainership Brand new — the first and only release is from last month, and the whole commit history is basically launch day Security coverage: brand new, so not yet Test coverage: yes, both unit tests and kernel tests Documentation: a genuinely thorough README — it walks through privacy, the config guard rails, and three different ways to customize event output Open issues: none yet, it's less than two weeks old
Usage stats: Too new for a site count
Module features and usage With this installed, it adds the signed-in user's Microsoft 365, or Outlook, calendar as an extra event source on a FullCalendar view — so their personal appointments sit right next to the Drupal content the view already renders It leans on the Microsoft 365 Connector module and its SSO submodule, plus the FullCalendar module. Each user must have signed in through Microsoft 365 SSO: anyone who hasn't just sees no events, which is a clean fallback It uses lazy loading, so it only fetches events in the date range the calendar is currently showing, not your whole calendar Privacy is baked in: anything marked private or confidential in Outlook is masked, so it shows up as just "Busy", with no title, location, or meeting link, unless the site builder deliberately turns masking off The response itself is per-user and marked private, no-store, so it never lands in a shared or CDN cache There's a clever server-side cache too: it stores the raw Graph response before masking, so a single fetch can serve several displays that each have different masking settings You get guard rails you can tune with Drush or an admin form: max events, max date range, cache lifetime, and a separate, shorter failure cache That failure cache is a nice touch — if there's no active Microsoft session, or Graph errors out, it caches the empty result briefly so a broken connection doesn't get re-polled on every single calendar click Under the hood it calls Graph's calendarView endpoint rather than /me/events, which means recurring meetings get expanded into their individual occurrences — exactly what a calendar grid needs Every event carries CSS classes for its status — busy, free, tentative, out-of-office, working elsewhere, cancelled — so you can style them however you want And if CSS isn't enough, there's a server-side alter hook and a JavaScript pre-build event for fully custom rendering. Nice detail: the hook is explicitly guarded so you can't use it to put back a title or location that masking just stripped out Clearly this will be more
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