Click Continue Setup Microsoft Bookings Preferences Fill in Business Name – I named mine “Michelle’s Calendar” since I will only be adding meetings to my calendar, but if you’re looking to expand to the entire organization that is possible as well.ĥ. While Microsoft Bookings’ target audience was not originally for online meetings, the current work culture makes sense that this is now an option for users.

In this blog post, I am going to show you how to create your own personal bookings page for online meetings, that will check your availability, book during designated office hours, and automatically create teams meeting for you. Microsoft Bookings is now available to all Enterprise licenses.

The proposed meeting time will be displayed and if the time doesn’t work for an attendee, you can just click on the timeline and select a slot that works for everyone or you can use autopick to let outlook find the next time that everyone is available.We are all tired of exchanging emails back and forth, trying to pick a meeting time, only to have your calendar booked by something else and thus the cycle continues.

You will get a view where you can see the availability of the participants. Create a new meeting and add the attendees either as required or optional then click on Scheduling Assistant.

Let’s say you need to schedule a meeting with two other colleagues.

Let’s increase the chances that everyone is going to be available by using Scheduling Assistant.

You don’t want to just pick a time, send out your invite and hope for the best. Scheduling a meeting with lots of different people in your organization can be a challenge.Now you just need to find a time slot to get it done.

Take over the title and add the content of the email.

Simply drag the email down to the calendar icon.

Otherwise, you are probably going to forget.

In this case, I always recommend scheduling some time in your calendar to get it done.

Let’s say, you get an email but you can’t answer right away because you need to do some research first.

Another great feature is to schedule meetings directly from an email.

Calendar management in outlook