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Iron Contributor

Jan 12, 2017

Group Calendars - why would we use one?

Hi all. I am trying to get my head around the Calendar part of Groups and understand why a team or department would choose to use it. As far as I can see there is no Skype integration, and as 90% of ...

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Bruce Weatherford

Brass Contributor

Jan 13, 2017

In a similar vein I have difficulty when scheduling meetings with everyone in a group. With distribution lists I could expand the list in order to look at the details of everyone's calendar (by expanding the group) but this is not available with groups and I have to rely on the rollup availability. Has anyone found a way to look at the availability of individuals users in a group?

Thanks, Bruce...

RobOK
Bronze Contributor
Feb 02, 2017
Bruce Weatherford wrote:
In a similar vein I have difficulty when scheduling meetings with everyone in a group. With distribution lists I could expand the list in order to look at the details of everyone's calendar (by expanding the group) but this is not available with groups and I have to rely on the rollup availability. Has anyone found a way to look at the availability of individuals users in a group?

Thanks, Bruce...

Totally agree with this comment. You go to the Calendar in Outlook and it shows "Busy" for the consolidation of every person in the group. Has anyone found that useful? If there are 5 or more people in the group, the entire calendar is filled with "Busy". I think Group Calendar needs some refinement, hopefully in the works.
darrellaas
MVP
Jan 16, 2017
Sounds like a good feature request to me, expand membership and Group member free/busy for scheduling assistant. Yes please.