Audit booking changes
Have users reporting long-standing discrepancies on room bookings - stuff being cancelled months ago, but not showing anywhere. I remember in the past, being able to audit this. Unfortunately, we now have Purview - a tool we didn't ask for, don't want, but allegedly are forced to use. These are Resources in 365, they have Exchange Mailboxes. Exchange has a tool to search for changes, but demands the subject line. The booking has been removed by the users - and I have no idea if this wants the original 'Booking' or the 'Re: Booking' or the 'FW: booking' or which of the 120 emails were generated. So I'm looking for alternative ways. I believe in the past, I did this via Defender. There WERE activities for Mailbox changes within this audit tool. They appear to be gone - or searching for Mailbox just removes all activities labeled 'Mailbox', I'm not sure. CoPilot gives me an evolving series of deprecated/possibly non-existent cmdlets for powershell, so that's fun. please do not refer me to another terrible marketing 'article'.. I have read so many, learned absolutely nothing useful, and I'm over it. Thank youPractical Purview: Removing Old Items from User Calendars
A reader wants to remove all calendar items over a certain age. Compliance purge actions seem like a good way to do this, but there's a problem that needs to be fixed. eDiscovery purges can do the job, but only if you have eDiscovery Premium. And then there's Graph APIs to consider. All in all, many ways exist to purge calendar items. https://practical365.com/ediscovery-purges/
Make Bookings calendar events private by default?
Hi everyone! We are currently attempting to use Microsoft Bookings with external people. When someone books an appointment with us, a calendar entry that includes the full name of the person booking the appointment is created in the staff's calendar. The staff's calendar is visible throughout the entire organization, meaning everyone can see who scheduled an appointment with us. This is a privacy issue for us. Making these appointments private in the Outlook calendar would be a solution, but I can't seem to find an option to make Bookings appointments private by default. Changing calendar permissions is also not an option for our organization. I was also not successful in building a flow with Power Automate since linking the booking to a meeting turned out to be difficult. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!
Microsoft Places individual desk booking is not working
Hi, Following the documentation, Configure desk booking - Microsoft Places | Microsoft Learn, I successfully ran the shared command lines without any errors. However, on Microsoft Places, I am unable to see individual desks appear; only desk pools are visible. Has anyone managed to get this to work? Thanks,Calendar of a Distribution Group in new Outlook
We have a Distribution Group in O365, which contains all members of a team. When you add this Distribution Group to the calendar, you can see the calendar of each team member. This way the admin can just update the Distribution Group with new team members, and everyone has gets the updated list of calendars. In the current Outlook you need to disable "Turn on shared calendar improvements" for this to work as described here. But in the "new" Outlook I can't add the calendars via the Distribution Group, and the option from the "old" Outlook is gone. Does anyone have a solution for this?meeting room calendar does not update
I created a meeting room resource from the Microsoft 365 admin portal. If user A books the meeting room, user B does not immediately see the booking made by user A in the meeting room calendar. However, if user B tries to book the same slot, a red line appears indicating that the room is occupied. Why doesn't user B see that the slot is occupied in the calendar? If I remove and re-add the meeting room calendar for user B, then user A's booking appears.Transferring Meeting Ownership From an Ex-Employee Can Be Hard Work
Neither Outlook nor Teams includes a transfer meeting ownership feature for user calendars. Moving meetings owned by an ex-employee to give someone else the ownership requires manual intervention to find and reschedule meetings. Administrators can cancel future meetings for a user. In this article, we explore how to generate a report of meetings that might need to be rescheduled. https://office365itpros.com/2025/04/03/transfer-meeting-ownership/Default Appointment length in Outlook Calendar
Hi all, In Outlook 365, the default meeting length is set to the same time than the "View Timescale" (Current View - View Settings - Other Settings). When the "View Timescale" is set to 30 min for example, then the"Default duration for new appointments and meetings" setting in File - Options - Calendar - Calendar Options is ignored (also when the "Shorten appointments and meetings" is ticked and set to any amount of time). I would like to have the "View Timescale" set to 30 min and the "Default Meeting Duration" at 1 hour. Does anyone know if that is possible or is this a bug? Thanks in advance for the help.
