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cndavis80
Copper Contributor
Mar 26, 2020

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?    
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Ryan Steele's avatar
Ryan Steele
Bronze Contributor
Jun 17, 2020

The issue occurs when the Outlook calendar is in month view.

 

I'm able to reproduce the issue as follows.

  1. Launch Outlook and navigate to the Calendar view
  2. Choose "Month" from the "Arrange" section of the ribbon
  3. 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

  • GreatToHearFromYou's avatar
    GreatToHearFromYou
    Brass Contributor
    Oct 19, 2020

    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.

    • Ryan Steele's avatar
      Ryan Steele
      Bronze Contributor
      Oct 19, 2020

      You're welcome, GreatToHearFromYou. I would recommend also sending feedback from within the Teams app (from the Help button in the lower-left).

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    Duanne
    Copper Contributor
    Jun 18, 2020

    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.

    ..

    • ChristianBergstrom's avatar
      ChristianBergstrom
      Silver Contributor
      Jun 18, 2020

      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).

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    ginny798x
    Copper Contributor
    Jul 31, 2020
    thank you - this was driving me crazy
  • C_Thorne82's avatar
    C_Thorne82
    Copper Contributor
    Sep 03, 2020

    Any update on this?   I had some embarrasment today caused by the default to a 24 hr Teams meeting. Settings are 30mins in Outlook Calendar.

    Ryan Steele 

    • ChristianBergstrom's avatar
      ChristianBergstrom
      Silver Contributor
      Sep 04, 2020

      C_Thorne82 Hi, and thanks for the heads up! I'd forgotten about this. Just now installed Version 2008 (Build 13127.20296) Current channel and it's still an "issue" using the Monthly view (meaning defaults to 24 hours). I thought it was fixed.

       

      View:

      Day - 30 min
      Work Week - 30 min
      Week - 30 min
      Month - 24 hours
      Schedule View - 30 min

      • gcsaunders's avatar
        gcsaunders
        Copper Contributor
        Sep 29, 2020

        We are experiencing the same issues as everyone else.

         

        Any update on this bug?

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