Provide a feature of "Find a Time" functionality in the Microsoft Outlook 2016 similar to Outlook.com
Provide a feature of "Find a Time" functionality in the Microsoft Outlook 2016 similar to Outlook.com
Marc Houghton
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At Microsoft we pride ourselves on being customer focused and we apologize for the frustration that our decision to remove the FindTime add-in has caused for Outlook for Windows users.
We are committed to using important customer feedback received in this situation to inform our decisions, moving forward. We are working with urgency to re-enable the FindTime add-in as fast as we can.
Stay tuned for updates.
Thanks – Outlook Calendar Team
20 comments
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Adi
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I'm using the work time settings to restrict 'Autopick' in the scheduling assistant. Setting my working hours to lunch time before organizing an appointment will find only appointments which could be held in lunch. Or some colleagues are not working on specific days. Removing the checkbox on this day in my work time settings will also avoid/will not find an appointment on that specific day.
I'm missing such a functionality and think this dialog settings would be helpful for a 'Find a Time' add-in or in MS Outlook itself. -
Philip Moser
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I 2nd this opinion. You can't give your customers and awesome, efficient tool, then summarily take it away and replace it with a burdensome web based replica.
"I think it was a Huge mistake to remove FindTime, and in its place the OWA only "poll for meeting" tool. It's not nearly as user-friendly, nowhere near as helpful, and is a huge inconvenience for standard Outlook users to have to go to the web for scheduling assistance. FindTime worked amazingly, and I think many people are pretty sore that it was removed. It was an excellent idea and was VERY well-done."
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Anonymous
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I think it was a Huge mistake to remove FindTime, and in its place the OWA only "poll for meeting" tool. It's not nearly as user-friendly, nowhere near as helpful, and is a huge inconvenience for standard Outlook users to have to go to the web for scheduling assistance. FindTime worked amazingly, and I think many people are pretty sore that it was removed. It was an excellent idea and was VERY well-done.
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mtamayoo@microsoft.com
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Why is it so hard to implement it as an Office App so it can be run on the web and on modern versions of the desktop as well?
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Patrick Anderson
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I am finding some pretty upset customers that we don't have this anymore for outlook. Is there a plan to continue support in Outlook?
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Anonymous
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The community expectation is that this functionality should be offered though a add-in , which would work on web , win and mac , rather than re-implement and re-engineer for each modality. As such this is also perceived as Microsoft not using its own guidance for office development.
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[Deleted User]
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Is there any information about implementing the O365 "Poll for a meeting time" function to Outlook?
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Stanley Yau
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Good to see that FindTime has been updated and is now part of Outlook on the Web. However, having it as an add-in for the Outlook 2016 desktop application is also a must-have... Hopefully this gets done sooner rather than later, especially for those who have been using the FindTime add-in.
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Geoffrey B. Gelb
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I was really disappointed to hear that this feature was being removed from the Windows Outlook Desktop experience. What a real shame! Please bring it back.
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Stan
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The add-in is so critical for FindTime. Moving this to Outlook on-line is a big miss. As a business, we use Outlook... not Outlook online.
Please keep the plug-in active!!! -
Martin Osswald
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Actually I personally think FindTime should be an integrated cloud service of Office 365, not for the onprem version.
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Christos Karras
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I just got a notification that the FindTime plugin for Outlook would be discontinued and that we would instead have to use the Outlook web client to use FindTime. This is a really bad decision, FindTime was superior to other similar tools because it was integrated in the Outlook desktop client. Removing that integration is a step back and remove its advantage over other tools.
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David Vallée
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Really nice change Request needed to improve usage and adoption of O365
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Antonio
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In the words of one of my many mentors "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Let's bring the add-in back to the rich client. Most outlook power users live in the rich client.
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Anonymous
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The time I send emails in way represents when I actually sent it. In one case, it said I sent it a 1:00 am in the morning, and I can assure you that I was asleep at that time. I actually sent it around 9:35 am on 9/2/17
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Manoj Shah
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I totally echo what Becca Reed has said. This add-on has been immensely useful as a TAM like Becca indicated. More importantly, it has helped me encourage/evangelize O365 capabilities for my customers and many have liked it. Matter of fact, I have a customer that is disappointed as they can't install this add-on any longer even though they find it greatly useful! Please please bring it back!!! Thank you in advance!
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Becca Reed
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One of the most frustrating and challenging tasks of being in a customer-facing, customer satisfaction role (TAM, SDM...) is finding times that work for both MSFT and customer teams. This kind of functionality is hugely helpful, reducing back-and-forth. This empowers productivity!! please bring it back!
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lkuhn@microsoft.com
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Why not implement as an Add-in like FindTime was, so that all outlook clients can use it?
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Anonymous
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Use findtime all the time would love this to be available in Outlook 2016
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Erik Werner
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Loved findtime and the functionality to use it from within the Outlook client.
