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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.

VasilMichev

MVP

Jul 28, 2017

There's a DefaultMeetingDuration parameter you can set via Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration:

-DefaultMeetingDuration <Int32>
The DefaultMeetingDuration parameter specifies the default duration in minutes for new meetings. The default value is 30 minutes.

Doesnt seem to take effect in clients though :) Let me ask around, see if it's supposed to work...