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For those on Microsoft 365 (by choice or via your company), have you tried or adopted Microsoft Bookings [1]? I noticed that Bookings shares some of the core features of Calendly, but integrates with Outlook and Teams. It sounds interesting, but I haven't heard much discussion about it.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business/sched...

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We tried it, was super buggy and had display issues on smaller devices. FWIW we also tried cal.com and had equally many issues — the first week we tried self-hosting and it must’ve crashed half a dozen times losing a whole bunch of bookings.

Nice thing is it being open source and Prisma based means you can just scroll thru the source and roll your own solution in a couple hours of dev work

Microsoft still Microsofting. We starting using DevOps recently, aka Visual Studio Team Services, and some of our employees can barely get through the login process.

The actual nice solution would be to fix those issues and commit them back upstream, but hey :)

My school (at which I am a student and for which I work as an academic tutor) provides me with Microsoft Bookings, and that is how all my tutees book tutoring sessions. It's worked pretty great for me so far, and I haven't encountered any issues. It integrates nicely with Outlook & Teams.

Last I checked, it doesn't allow integration with calendars from non-Microsoft sources (e.g., Google), so it was a non-starter for me. After using Calendly for several years to offload that aspect of my life, I'm back to listing out times I'm available to folks in emails to try to coordinate meetings since my new job only allows Microsoft Bookings.

SavvyCal supports 'login with Microsoft' for your M365 work accounts too, so SSO without the SAML setup.

https://savvycal.com/

// It's disconcerting how cloned some cal.com screens look compared to SavvyCal.

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