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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...
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.
I recall once using a plug in to Outlook that would not allow back-to-back meetings. Does this still exist?
Do not know. I have never seen such a plug in. And I would not be a fan of a plug in for such a specific purpose, would rather see MS put this capability into the Outlook baseline functionality.