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Executive Out-Of-Office Calendar
Office 365 2016 with Exchange online. We are all new to this environment. The boss wants a calendar on which all execs can indicate times they will be out of the office. I'm guessing an Office ...
This practice makes my skin crawl when used. This always makes people accept out of office meeting requests and puts their own status in Teams as Out of Office all the time. :P It's also annoying and junks up my calendar. No offense but I just don't like it at all :)
You're on the right path, people should just use their calendars. If they want to see everyone's OOF you can actually just create a Group (not office 365) of their calendars and open them in Outlook with a single click, to overlay them all to look at their availability. This is my prefered method. Assuming there isn't 20+ of them that needs to do this.
You're on the right path, people should just use their calendars. If they want to see everyone's OOF you can actually just create a Group (not office 365) of their calendars and open them in Outlook with a single click, to overlay them all to look at their availability. This is my prefered method. Assuming there isn't 20+ of them that needs to do this.
ChrisWebbTech wrote:
This practice makes my skin crawl when used. This always makes people accept out of office meeting requests and puts their own status in Teams as Out of Office all the time. :P It's also annoying and junks up my calendar. No offense but I just don't like it at all :)
You're on the right path, people should just use their calendars. If they want to see everyone's OOF you can actually just create a Group (not office 365) of their calendars and open them in Outlook with a single click, to overlay them all to look at their availability. This is my prefered method. Assuming there isn't 20+ of them that needs to do this.
I never accept the calendar items that I receive from my co-workers and since the all day events are marked as "Free" then they do not interfere with Teams or Skype availability.
We are a group of 6 so only during the holidays does it get busy, but the rest of the year the calendars are fairly empty.
- What works, works !!
What if there is an invite you are suppose to accept then? :) - Well good that you mark them free, many will mark them as Out of Office ;) and not pay attention, was a huge deal at my last org with that and Teams status.
Check out the replies about the Calendar overlays then if it's only 6 people. Should work just fine if everyone just puts in OOO and can use the scheduling assistant. - Ok thanks
