Office 365 – Find Time – Outlook Add-In

FindTime is an Outlook add-in which you can use to schedule meetings. Great thing about it is it allows invitees to vote on suggested meeting times so you can easily see what time fits best and invitees don’t need to have FindTime installed to vote on meeting times. You can send emails to people using Gmail or similar email providers.

If you would like to use this you will need to have Office 365 account. Supported clients are:

Outlook 2013
Outlook 2016
Outlook on the Web (OWA)
Outlook for Mac

INSTALL FINDTIME

There are couple of options when it comes to installation of FindTime. You can install it for the whole tenant (all users) or you can install it only for one user just to test the add-in.

1) Install FindTime in Outlook.

Start Outlook and on the Home tab click on Get-Add-ins

In the Search type in FindTime. click on it and add it.

2) Second option is to browse to FindTime home page and install it from there.

URL: https://findtime.microsoft.com/

3) Third Option is to enable it for all users in EAC. Click on Organization –> Add-ins and + sign. here you can choose from which source you would like to add it.

When you add it, it will be disabled by default. You can click on the pen to enable it.

We have 3 options here and Optional, disabled by deafult is the default setting. You can change this to be Mandatory or you can enable it as optional.

WORKING WITH FINDTIME ADD-IN

When you add FindTime add-in for the first time you will have to link FindTime to your office 365 account. When you click on the new E-mail in outlook you will see New Meeting Poll.

You will see Welcome Pop-up with the option to link your account. Click on Link Now

New window will pop-up where you need to specify office 365 password.

Once done, you will be able to use it. First step is to add attendees. I will add a user with Office 365 account and a user with hotmail account. Next you can change Duration, Work Hours and the Time Zone. Once done, you can go and pick a few times. Click Next

Here you can enter a location and change Meeting Setting. Click on Insert to Email.

Your invitation will be inserted into email message.

When a user receives this, it will look like this. User needs to click on Select Options to pick a time.

When a user clicks on Select Options, the next step will be identification. Here will be the list of all users that you sent notification to. That what user needs to do is to just click on its name.

Once done, users will see a visual summary of voting to date helping them make the best choice. Here you have option to let everyone know when your favorite time is. Click on Submit when you are done.