Hi Guys,

I was wondering if there is a way to globally change the default time when creating an appointment/meeting in outlook.

Every time when anyone starts a meeting, it would either be at hour mark(example: 8:00), or half hour mark(example: 8:30).

Is there a way to globally set it to 10 mins after those default time?

Example start time:

8:10AM

8:40AM

9:10AM

9:40AM

This was a decision made by our executive team having something to do with grace period before every meeting.

The end time would need to stay default. Usually a meeting would be 1 hour long, so with the new configuration, it will be 50 mins long.

A 2 hour long meeting will become 1 hour and 50 minutes.

And a 30 minute meeting will be 20 minutes.

Example end results output would be:

20 min meeting

start time: 8:10AM(globally configured)

end time: 8:30AM(default) 

50 minute meeting

start time: 9:10AM(Globally configured)

end time: 10:00AM(default)

Anything you guys can do to help would be greatly appreciate as always.

Thanks!

• Edited by odsca Wednesday, June 17, 2015 5:27 PM

Hi,

There is no method to change the default start time and default Outlook meeting duration in Exchange side.

Based on my research, there is no built-in option in Outlook to meet your requirement. However, there is an article descripted that we can use a Macro to do it. Please refer to the article below to have a try:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/ewan/archive/2013/11/08/tip-o-the-week-196-change-outlook-meeting-duration.aspx

If you still have any problem about it, please ask a question in Outlook forum for more help:

https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/home?forum=outlookdev

Regards,

Do you know if this is possible to push out via GPO?