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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 uservoice . 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.

Loryan Strant

MVP

Jul 28, 2017

Unfortunately that's quite a specific requirement, and while I'm sure others would probably want to do the same realistically this is basic human time management. You may have back to back meetings with no space in the calendar, but reminders come up on devices/Outlook/wearables so they should be able to tell the person/people they are meeting with "sorry I have to go in 5 minutes as I need to get to my next meeting and prepare".

Joshua Widup

Copper Contributor

Aug 01, 2017

Hey Loryan - I agree it's a "specific requirement". Every Exchange/Office platform I've worked with has had this same request come in to accomodate the "culture" of the company. I would think this would be something specific that MS would see beneficial gain by accomodating. It could certainly change the efficiency of the user community within any company or university/school system.

Basic human time management is often overwhelmed by the meeting organizer anyhow but it would certainly assist in shaping cultural standards. ;)