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Former Employee

Jul 27, 2017

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Calendaring: Changing the default meeting time

Hi, I am researching a customer question. They would like to change the default meeting duration to 25min or 55min instead of 30 or 60 minutes. They would like to keep the meeting start time defa...

Swapnil_Chavan
Nov 15, 2019
cruiz - This functionality is available since Feb 19 as per https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/13137501-customize-default-meeting-time-in-calendar-or-opti . If you want to roll out this change centrally and ensure that the end user cannot set their own custom end early time then you can change the registry key policy settings via -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar and updates both EndEarlyShort and EndEarlyLong values as well as the EndEventsEarly key.

cruiz

Copper Contributor

Jul 09, 2019

Dean Suzuki Agreed! I'd like this functionality as well. Google Calendar does it...

Swapnil_Chavan

Copper Contributor

Nov 15, 2019

cruiz - This functionality is available since Feb 19 as per https://outlook.uservoice.com/forums/322590-outlook-2016-for-windows/suggestions/13137501-customize-default-meeting-time-in-calendar-or-opti . If you want to roll out this change centrally and ensure that the end user cannot set their own custom end early time then you can change the registry key policy settings via -HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Options\Calendar and updates both EndEarlyShort and EndEarlyLong values as well as the EndEventsEarly key.

Pawan_Khunger
Copper Contributor
Sep 18, 2023
Swapnil_Chavan
this uservoice is no more available. And seems like this option is still not available for org-wide updates.