Access your SFU Mail calendar in Teams

Overview

This article describes how to enable the calendar app in Teams to access your SFU Mail calendar.

Details

Starting July 24, 2023, your SFU Mail calendar will be connected to your Teams calendar. When you schedule a meeting in SFU Mail, it'll show up in Teams, and vice versa. You'll also be able to schedule appointments, respond to invitations, and join meetings directly from your Teams app. To get started:

  1. Select ... from the leftmost menu on your Teams app.

     
  2. Select Calendar from the list of apps available, or search for it and add it.
  3. Right-click the Calendar app and select Pin so that the app stays pinned on the left menu.
  4. Select the Calendar app and your SFU calendar will appear. From here, you can view and modify upcoming meetings, schedule new ones, or join an ongoing meeting directly.

Calendar in Teams

 

 

Meetings and Calendar View

In the top right corner, you have options to join a meeting with an ID number, create an instant meeting, and schedule a new meeting. You also can switch the calendar to day, work week, or week view from underneath the New meeting button.

 

Today's Date and Date Picker

In the top left corner, you can jump directly to today's date and access the date picker to more easily jump to a particular day and month.

 

Known Issues and Limitations

As we work to bring Exchange Online to SFU, some features may not work as expected until the full migration. The Scheduling Assistant in the Teams Calendar will not display a recipient's free/busy availability correctly if there are no events scheduled on their calendar. To use the Scheduling Assistant in its full capacity, we recommend using the Outlook desktop app or SFU Mail on the web.

By design, your Teams Calendar will only display your main SFU calendar. To access your other calendars and the entire suite of calendaring features available from Microsoft, we recommend using the Outlook desktop apps or SFU Mail on the web.

 

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