#M365AMA Can Bookings block in-person meeting requests when working elsewhere?
Channel: Christian Buckley
Date: 2023-12-27

“I'm going to be working remotely (out of my home state) for much of June.  I have my bookings calendar set up so that people can schedule a phone or video call with me or an in-person call.  I was hoping that marking my calendar as "Working Elsewhere" would prevent people from being able to schedule an in-person appointment.  It doesn't work.  Is there an easy way to mark my calendar as unavailable for in-person meetings, but I am available for phone or video calls?  I'm aware I can do this in the bookings app, but is there a setting where this would be easier to do through my calendar or a setting in bookings? "

Participating in this discussion were:

Christian Buckley @buckleyplanet 
Shari Oswald  @shortcutshari  
Hal Hostetler  @TVWizard  
Sharon Weaver  @sharoneweaver  
Kirsty McGrath @KirstyMcGrath13

Some relevant notes/links shared by the team:

--  The panel's primary advice: create 2 different services.
--  Microsoft Answers: A support person provides Microsoft's definitions around appointments and meetings options, which unfortunately points out the flaw that you've discovered....and it's by design [https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/appointments-meetings-show-as/55e9f713-9fa9-441d-8c98-8a92cbee6edb]
-- A great 3rd party tool that resolves this issue for some of the panelists is Calendly [https://calendly.com/]