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karlv
Microsoft
MicrosoftChange default meeting length in Outlook - Avoid Back-to-Back meetings!
We give the following advice in our VP's blog post -
"schedule meetings to conclude five minutes before the end of the hour or half hour. This shortens your time together slightly but goes a long w...
Indeed, it does now appear to work. It seems to be specific to the email account that I configured it under in OWA, which is fine since that's the one I'd like it for, but is that expected?
OK, so now it appears to work as a default for all accounts. I did find it a little tedious to undo the default setting for a specific meeting as it kept swapping between start and end time and moving them by 5 minutes. Eventually it accepted it.
We have a suggested standard of starting a meeting at 5 past, & finishing at 5 to - now, if I could add that to my defaults, rather than it assuming you want to start on an hour / half hour, that would be even better 🙂 [Or choose a default time of something other than 30 / 60 minutes. One of the two :)] Or have meetings both starting & finishing late ...
