Scheduling Poll
*Scheduling Poll has replaced FindTime in Microsoft 365
Scheduling Poll helps minimize the back-and-forth emails in scheduling by letting you send a poll to attendees inside and outside your organization, so they can vote on which meeting times work best for them.
Scheduling Poll Resources
Scheduling Poll Organizer Dashboard
Additional Scheduling Poll Resources
Scheduling Poll Best Practices
- Add all intended recipients before starting a Scheduling Poll.
- Send Scheduling Polls to invididuals, not distribution groups.
- expand and review "Manage poll settings” which appears after selecting available times:
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- You may want to tweak the default settings:
- Unchecking "Schedule when attendees reach consensus" will prevent the meeting invitation from automatically being sent once everyone has voted.
- Unchecking "Hold selected times on my calendar" will leave the possible meeting times available on your calendar while the poll is in progress.
- You may want to tweak the default settings: