How to have hybrid meetings by default in Microsoft Outlook

Image: Kateryna/Adobe Stock For lots of organizations, remote and hybrid work continues to be the norm, and even in-person conferences will typically have remote attendees. Find out how you can conserve time by having Microsoft Outlook immediately make all conferences online conferences by utilizing your favored software application platform.

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Identify if Microsoft Teams is right for your organization

If you have a Microsoft Teams license and a Workplace 365 membership, current versions of Outlook currently make Groups conferences the default for each conference you create in your calendar.

IT admins can utilize PowerShell to turn this on for everybody in the organization with Set-OrganizationConfig -OnlineMeetingsByDefaultEnabled $True. However if users have already changed settings for this in Outlook, the PowerShell command won’t alter them back.

Now, every meeting you produce will be set up as a Microsoft Teams conference as long as you invite someone else to it– unless it goes on for longer than 24 hours.

If you don’t like that, you can turn it off separately; in Outlook for Windows, that setting is located in File|Choices|Calendar (Figure A). That’s also where you can select to have a different meeting platform for your online meetings rather than Teams.

Figure A

If you use several meeting services that integrate with Outlook, you can pick which will automatically

be utilized for new conferences. Image: Microsoft Limitations to Exchange Server on-premises Microsoft Teams combination If you want to make Microsoft Teams meetings straight from Outlook– or perhaps see your Outlook calendar in Teams– and if you utilize Exchange Server on-premises, you need to have Exchange Server 2016 or later in a hybrid deployment. You do not have to use online mail boxes, however you do require to configure calendar gain access to correctly; without that, the Teams Fulfilling add-in will not be available. In a session at the 2022 Microsoft Exchange Community Technical Airlift, the Exchange group said they ‘d had a great deal of feedback from consumers about getting the plug-in working for Exchange Server and validated “that’s certainly in our pipeline, “although it doesn’t show up as in development

in the Exchange Server Feedback neighborhood. Pick your default meeting platform Developing a Microsoft Teams conference from Outlook uses a plugin that needs to be automatically set up with Outlook. Other conferences platforms have their own Microsoft Office add-ins that let you develop meetings on that service straight in your calendar. Those consist of: However if Microsoft Teams is installed, it will be the default unless you choose another meeting service provider. If you do not use Groups at all and

you just have one meeting add-in set up, that will be used instantly for online meetings. If you have several add-ins, the default will be whatever add-in the IT admin has installed and set up as the default. If you have legacy meeting add-ins installed The above list

contains “modern-day” Microsoft Workplace add-ins instead of legacy COM add-ins for Outlook that only deal with Windows. If you’re still utilizing an older add-in

to develop online meetings, switching on online meetings by default may include both the meeting information you desire and a replicate Groups meeting link to calendar invitations. If there’s a modern add-in set up, uninstall the old COM add-in and change it with a newer Microsoft Workplace add-in. If you are unable to uninstall the old COM add-in, you’ll need to shut off Add Online Satisfying To All Meetings in Outlook’s Calendar settings(as shown above in Figure A). This indicates you will have to develop online conferences individually; admins can disable that globally utilizing PowerShell with Set-OrganizationConfig-OnlineMeetingsByDefaultEnabled $Incorrect. If you use a Mac or other running system Here is how you can select online conferences and your meeting provider in other versions of

Outlook. Mac: Search In Outlook Preferences|Calendar. Outlook for the web: Look under Outlook Settings|View All Outlook settings|Calendar|Events And Invites. Android: Open your Outlook Profile and choose Settings|Account. iOS: Open Settings|Email Accounts|Account Settings. However, you should not require to set which meeting service you wish to utilize all over you utilize Outlook ; pick it on one gadget, and it will be chosen in any other Outlook customers you use that account with. SEE: The current version

of Microsoft Teams might not be available for you if you use a non-Windows device. The choices aren’t quite the exact same

on mobile. Both Android and iOS let you sign up with a conference

online from Outlook whether it remains in Groups or utilizes another service provider, however it’s just Outlook for Android that lets you establish meetings on other meeting platforms directly from

the Outlook calendar– Outlook for iOS can’t do that yet. And while

users can set up third-party meeting companies in Outlook on Android or iOS themselves, that will not change the default, and they will still see the Teams button for making new meetings. To change the default, IT admins need to set up the add-in to user mail boxes, utilizing the Central Release portal for Exchange Online or the Exchange Admin Console, Exchange Control Panel or Exchange Management Shell for Exchange Server on-premises. If admins sideload a conference provider on gadgets– for example, if you have a custom conference service in your company– that will be the default conference provider when users create a new occasion on mobile. Otherwise, they will see the admin-installed conference add-in. If you do not have a conference app from an invite set up

If you get an invite to a meeting on a service you don’t yet have the right meeting app set up for, you can still join the conference. When you click the Join button in the meeting, Outlook will open the browser and tell you what to do. Moreover, you do not need to have the meeting company add-in installed to join an online conference that shows up in your diary. That’s simply for developing conferences on anything besides Groups directly from Outlook. Avoid installing multiple meeting providers in Outlook on mobile devices, since this can trigger what Microsoft calls “unexpected behavior”like not linking to conferences effectively. How to shorten meetings by altering these settings When you make online meetings the default in Outlook, you might wish to alter other settings. For instance, you may wish to begin conferences five minutes sooner and end them five minutes early to offer a break between online meetings that might otherwise be back-to-back. Longer breaks may be

required for meetings that last more than an hour. Users can set that separately in Outlook’s calendar alternatives, however admins can likewise roll out an organizational policy for Microsoft 365 and Workplace 365 installations that use the Existing Channel or Monthly Enterprise

channel. The group policy for shortening occasions remains in the latest administrative design templates for Microsoft 365 and Office under User Config|Policies|Admin Templates|Microsoft Outlook 2016|Outlook Options|Preferences|Calendar Choices. You can allow Reduce Appointments And Meetings, Lower The End Time Of Long Appointments and Lower Completion Time Of Short Appointments.

You can also utilize the PowerShell Set-OrganizationConfig

commandlet, although that won’t alter the settings in Outlook for users who have actually already picked them. Source