How to set up Microsoft Bookings so that anyone can make an appointment in your calendar?

Do you want people to be able to book an hour with you and set up a meeting? You can do this without you even having to do anything for it.

You can use Microsoft Bookings to organize automatic rules for both physical and virtual meetings.

How? You can read about that in this article.

Get started with Bookings via portal.office.com

Navigate to portal.office.com and then press Bookings.

Enter your organisation details at the first login attempt.

What do you want to organize with Microsoft Bookings?

• People should be able to make an appointment with you.
• The appointment must be made via Microsoft Teams .
• An hour is fine.
• Only on Mondays between 10:00 and 12:00. The other days from 8:00 to 17:00 and on Saturdays between 10:00 and 11:00.

Start from the Booking Portal

Browseto: https://outlook.office.com/bookings

As an administrator you have "set up" the booking environment. Users are also able to use bookings without being an administrator - only the administrator's rules apply to integrations or company information.

If your administrator has not yet done anything in Bookings, because he was sleeping, then you can use Bookings without restrictions. However, with the limits from 8:00 to 17:00 meetings. But you can work around that in your own profile. More later...

First of all, you need agents. Or collaborators. You can add these via this direct URL: https://outlook.office.com/bookings/staff

Press "Add Staff" at the top.

Then add your members via Office 365 and click on save at the top.

In this example, I have added Debra.

Open the user whose availability you want to set exceptions for in the calendar.

In this example, I have changed Monday and Saturday. You can personalise this for each day.

I have enabled that IF there is already an agenda item in the agenda you can reserve this time slot.

Press save.

By default, a lot is already taken care of by Booking itself and you do not necessarily need to personalise anything else.

Publish your web link in your email signature

Browseto: https://outlook.office.com/bookings/bookingpage

I have chosen red as the colour on the right-hand side.

You can copy the url and publish it when people email you. In your signature for example. Like in this blog.

Sending an automatic meeting

It is possible to send an automatic meeting. This setting can be found here.

Performing a test for a physical meeting

Copy the URL from your booking portal into a browser and test the result.

Select the right contact

Fill in the form and book an appointment.

Your appointment confirmation will arrive shortly.

Configuring and testing a virtual meeting

You can activate services at outlook.office.com/bookings/services. I activated Microsoft Teams meetings to quickly set up a Teams meeting.

It is always best to use the direct link for distribution.

Example:

Your recipient will receive this invitation with a Teams-invite.

You will receive a confirmation in your agenda + mailbox.

Adjusting organisation hours

Company information can be adjusted for the entire organisation via: https://outlook.office.com/bookings/businessinformation

Have fun booking! If you have any questions, send a message in the comment! And help other people with their questions too.

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