Scheduling Poll (formerly FindTime) for Microsoft 365 Outlook

FindTime add-in will be retired in December 2023 and will stop working. Scheduling Poll is the replacement feature and is built directly into Outlook as a native feature.

For more information please refer to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/scheduling-poll-articles-7b5ff6c7-4f65-48e6-89b8-3f053c40e382

Using Scheduling Poll (FindTime) with your calendar

  1. Log in to the Outlook web app (OWA) via microsoft365.com using your 8-character UWaterloo username@uwaterloo.ca (i.e. myuserna@uwaterloo.ca)

  2. Launch Outlook by clicking on its icon in the left-hand menu and then choose the calendar icon:

 

3. Click on New Event and then click on the ellipses '…' on the right-hand side:

 

4. Once clicking on the Scheduling poll, it will ask you to select participants first.

 

In the Desktop app you will see the Add-In in the top menu:

 

5. The following dialogue menu will be shown to the right of your new event showing the availability of the participants:

 

For more information about Scheduling Poll please refer to Scheduling Poll– The easiest way to schedule across companies .

Need help?

Contact the IST Service Desk online or 519-888-4567 ext. 44357.

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