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karlv
Microsoft
MicrosoftChange default meeting length in Outlook - Avoid Back-to-Back meetings!
We give the following advice in our VP's blog post -
"schedule meetings to conclude five minutes before the end of the hour or half hour. This shortens your time together slightly but goes a long w...
We will make the change for all users. While the MS support page says that if you make the change in OWA it will also reflect in Outlook for MAC, I don't see it happening. Does anyone know about how to solve this?
Indeed, it does now appear to work. It seems to be specific to the email account that I configured it under in OWA, which is fine since that's the one I'd like it for, but is that expected?
- OK, so now it appears to work as a default for all accounts. I did find it a little tedious to undo the default setting for a specific meeting as it kept swapping between start and end time and moving them by 5 minutes. Eventually it accepted it.
We have a suggested standard of starting a meeting at 5 past, & finishing at 5 to - now, if I could add that to my defaults, rather than it assuming you want to start on an hour / half hour, that would be even better 🙂 [Or choose a default time of something other than 30 / 60 minutes. One of the two :)] Or have meetings both starting & finishing late ...
