The new calendar in Microsoft Teams now generally available

We are excited to announce that the new calendar in Teams is now generally available for commercial customers. The new calendar is designed for familiarity and reliability, while incorporating the latest innovations in Microsoft Copilot and Places to elevate your scheduling and time management experience.  The new calendar delivers a unified experience with Outlook, so you can enjoy the same modern and intelligent calendar across both Teams and Outlook.

 

Unified calendar experience

The new calendar integrates the Outlook calendar into Teams, offering a single, cohesive calendar experience. This update also brings more feature parity across the Teams and Outlook calendars. Outlook features coming to Teams include delegate access, print support, expanded calendar settings, filtering, support for multiple time zones, time suggestions in scheduling, support for attachments, and more. Let’s take a closer look at these and additional experiences coming to Teams calendar below.

 

Cutting-edge experiences

This evolution of the calendar empowers you to achieve more by incorporating the latest innovations from both Copilot and Places to help infuse intelligence into your time management. Copilot capabilities like managed booking are available in the new calendar experience. Places capabilities like workplace presence and the Places card are also available. With a Teams Premium license, advanced capabilities like quick book and Places finder are available in the new calendar.

 

Expanded calendar views

The new calendar offers several new views and navigation options:

• Month View: View your calendar by month, a highly requested feature, especially useful for users with sparse calendars.
• Split View: When more than one calendar is selected, you can now split the calendar into two independent views.
• Time Scale: Specify time scales or intervals for the calendar surface
• Saved Views: Save your current view for easy access later
• Weather Display: See the weather for your current location directly in the calendar

 

Calendar settings and customization

Customize your calendar settings, including start and end times for events, location settings, and more. You can also share your calendar with others in your organization and print your entire calendar. Lastly, the new calendar can be popped out as a separate window, allowing you to multitask more effectively.

 

Save time with easy scheduling

Creating meetings is now more intuitive. You can quickly create a meeting from the quick view by clicking on a timeslot in your calendar or by opening the new scheduling form. The new scheduling form includes refreshed meeting options and templates for different meeting types

 

You can also access meeting artifacts directly from the peek view. For example, you can access the recap of a previous meeting by left-clicking on the event.

To try the new calendar in Teams:

1. Open the Teams desktop client and navigate to the Calendar app.
2. Click the “New Calendar” toggle in the top-right corner of the calendar surface, and the new calendar should load within a few seconds

 

NOTE: You can switch back whenever you want. Just switch the toggle off in the new calendar and it will automatically open the classic version.

For more details visit Microsoft Support page

 

With this update, we are not changing any settings for you or your organization. New calendar is an opt-in experience, so it’s ready for you when you are.

We are excited to reach this milestone and look forward to your ongoing feedback to make the new calendar the best time management experience for you and your organization.

We will continue to make feature improvements and monitor feedback, so continue to try the new calendar and let us know what you want to see next!