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Teams Meeting Time Defaults to 24 Hours When Using the Teams Add-in for Outlook
When creating a Teams meeting via the Outlook Add-inn, the time defaults to 24 hours. Can this be changed?
The issue occurs when the Outlook calendar is in month view.
I'm able to reproduce the issue as follows.
- Launch Outlook and navigate to the Calendar view
- Choose "Month" from the "Arrange" section of the ribbon
- Click the "New Teams Meeting" button in the ribbon
Expected result:
A new Meeting window opens with a start time and end time corresponding to the "Default duration for new appointments and meetings" set in Outlook Options > Calendar
Actual result:
A new Meeting window opens with a start time of 12:00am on today's date, and an end time of 12:00am the following day
We have the same issue here. Thank you Ryan Steele for sharing your findings and thank you ChristianBergstrom for your tip to use the Feedback tool in the Outlook client to report it.
You're welcome, GreatToHearFromYou. I would recommend also sending feedback from within the Teams app (from the Help button in the lower-left).
Thanks for this last Post.
I always use Month view in Outlook Calendar. In any other view, if I 'click' on a Start Time for the intended meeting, and then click on 'New Teams Meeting' in the ribbon bar, I can now say that this method DOES use the default 00:30 mins (in my case) set for a meeting duration.
Not my usual, work flow, but can adapt knowing this.
For MS, I would still like to use the same workflow as 'New Appointment', they should work the same!! Start in Month View, click the day, click 'New Teams Meeting', change the Start Time, and the end time defualts to 30mins after.
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Duanne Hello Duanne, it's a bug and will be fixed in a later release I'm sure (I use the monthly view as well).
- thank you - this was driving me crazy
I can confirm also, this problem is when using the month view.
same problem, very annoying!
- This bug has been around now for over 12 months. There is absolutely no excuse why it's not been fixed, other than, whoever is in charge of teams/outlook bug fixing is incompetent and should be moved to office tea person.
- I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned this workaround yet, but use the New Meeting option instead of the New Teams Meeting option, then in the new meeting, click on Teams Meeting in the ribbon to change it to a Teams meeting. This way it keeps the defaults from Outlook.
- I came here to add my workaround as well.
1. Click "New Teams Meeting"
2. Tick the box for "All day"
3. Untick the same box.
Viola, same Start/End Date. Decent workaround until MS is able to add the default config settings.- I love the work around, thank you.
But it is totally disgusting that the first post in this thread was a year and a half ago ... and Microsoft still can't fix this bug ... that is pathetic.
Same problem here.
Which version of Outlook is that? Mine sets it correctly to 30 mins.
Does it happen for all meetings, or just Teams ones? What is the default value for meeting duration set?
You can check it via Options -> Calendar -> Calendar options -> Default duration for new appointments and meetings.
Also check the mailbox-level one via Get-MailboxCalendarConfiguration user | select DefaultMeetingDuration
VasilMichev Only happens with Teams-meetings. Most recent Outlook version from o365 subscripion.
The setting from options does not make any impact here. I have tried the default being 30 minutes and 1h.
Image attached of what happens when I open New Teams meeting. The default time is 24hrs. Its quite annoying. I have sent several invites that are over 1 day long as I have forgot to change the date also.
Again, which version/build is that so I can report it. "Most recent" means different things across different channels and SKUs, so get the info out of File -> Office Account.
Same issue. Would be nice to have the default 30 minutes or an hour. 24 hours is uncommon for a meeting.
I just wanted to add that I have the same problem. Mostly it is annoying, embarrassing, and wastes peoples time.
I have gone through all the known remedies without success as well. I'm sure it will be fixed in their next update.
Leo
cndavis80 I honestly do not understand why this bug has not been resolved... ITS BEEN 7 MONTHS! I discovered it last week while scheduling a meeting with one of my clients... very embarrassing. Switching to week view to create an invite is annoying AF.
- I don't think these Tech Forums are ever read. You'd think there would at least be one post from MS by now stating it's now on a Sprint Plan or to low an issue to put right - ANYTHING but SILENCE!
- ThereseSolimeno
Microsoft
Hello Duanne PrimiTec_Solutions
This forum is primarily for users to share ideas, best practices and real-world solutions for using Teams; it's rare that a Microsoft person will respond because people like VasilMichev are certified MVPs and are as knowledgeable (if not moreso) than most users or Microsoft engineers.
The primary way to report a bug or request a feature is through the Uservoice feedback forum, and from my research on that site, this bug was never reported. If you'd like to do that, then others can vote on it and that's the best way to get the attention of the development team and receive updates on the status of the bug fix.
Finally, if anyone requires personalized tech support, we suggest that they go to answers.microsoft.com, which is staffed by Microsoft people and contractors. I hope this helps clarify the various resources available to Teams users. Thank you for being a member of the community.
This is an annoying bug. A work-around it to switch from Month to Week or Day view.
