Ignite: Outlook Calendaring Update

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In the Ignite talk Outlook Calendar: Fundamentals and Collaboration, the unequaled Julia Foran laid out tons of new and coming features for the various Outlook platforms in relation to calendaring. You can watch the video on the Virtual Hub.

I tried to capture those in below table. For more information for some of these features, please watch the recording

FeatureWinMacOWAiOSAnd
Personal calendar side-by-side
(Hotmail/Live/MSN, Google) 		✔✔⭐✔✔
Connect Shared & Delegated Mailboxes✔✔✔⭐⭐
Importing of ICS attachments✔✔⭐🕒⭐
Calendar To-Do pane (My Day)✔⭐⭐
Calendar To-Do pane showing Tasks (My Day)✔🕒
Calendar To-Do pane multiple Months support✔1
Suggested Times❔⭐✔🕒🕒
Advanced Room Finder✔1⭐✔
Room Suggestions for Recurring Meetings⭐🕒⭐❔❔
Room Suggestions showing Room Capabilities
(leverages Set-Place / Places REST API)		⭐🕒⭐❔❔
Room Suggestions and Policies integration
AllowRecurringMeeting, BookingWindowInDays, EnforceSchedulingHorizon, MaximumDurationInMinutes		🕒🕒🕒🕒🕒
Finding a Workspace
⭐1⭐⭐⭐⭐
Teams meeting quick-join
In-Calendar, Inbox or Search		⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Online meetings by default – Outlook🕒⭐⭐⭐⭐
Built-in Breaks – End Late
Built-In Breaks – Start Late
Setting roams clients, org-wide config coming soon		✔
🕒		🕒⭐🕒🕒
Meeting Insights – Outlook
Meeting Insights – Teams		🕒⭐
🕒		✔
🕒		⭐
❔		⭐
❔
Full Mailbox Delegates
Delegates receive full calendar permissions instead of the organisation (default) permissions		✔✔✔✔✔
Week Numbers
Setting not roaming yet		✔✔⭐⭐⭐
Scheduling with time zone selection✔✔✔⭐✔
Sync local device calendars
Sync back in progress, controllable with InTune policy		⭐
Flexible Week View✔✔⭐✔✔
Travel detection with time zone adjustment✔✔⭐✔✔
Automatic Removal of orphaned attendees
Attendees that left company get removed from meeting after first NDR to organizer.		🕒🕒🕒🕒🕒

Legend
✔ : Already available
🕒 : Coming
⭐ : New Feature
❔ : Undetermined

Notes
1) Currently available to Office Insiders

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Michel de Rooij, with over 25 years of mixed consulting and automation experience with Exchange and related technologies, is a consultant for Rapid Circle. He assists organizations in their journey to and using Microsoft 365, primarily focusing on Exchange and associated technologies and automating processes using PowerShell or Graph. Michel's authorship of several Exchange books and role in the Office 365 for IT Pros author team are a testament to his knowledge. Besides writing for Practical365.com, he maintains a blog on eightwone.com with supporting scripts on GitHub. Michel has been a Microsoft MVP since 2013.

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