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Office 365 preview ‑ Calendar for everyone

Posted by Information Technology Services on April 25, 2013 in General Announcements

As part of the move to Office 365 this fall, Dal will be adopting a new calendar management tool: Outlook calendar.

  • While Meeting Maker was available on a per-user cost basis, Outlook Calendar will be made available to everyone on campus.
  • You have the option for multiple views and calendars, making it easy to manage different types of schedules (personal, professional, etc.)
  • More convenient sharing and meeting invitation system.
  • A scheduling assistant that can easily make meetings from email text. (So if someone writes "Want to meet at the Killam Atrium at 3?" for example, you can make that into a calendar meeting with the click of a button.)
  • Room and resource management
  • Best of all, it's desktop, browser and mobile ready

We think that everyone who's spent time with Meeting Maker will find Outlook Calendar to be a big step forward. Visit Microsoft's website to learn more, or visit Dal's Office 365 website for further information on what O365 will mean for the university.