A1 licenses are kind of an exception to the rule in many cases…

So you might want to note that exception as a caveat in your sentence above, “Any user with an Exchange Online license has access to Bookings with Me…”

I believe that’s in the control of the person who owns the calendar.

The sharing links will work internally. If you turn off external sharing, it just means that you won’t be able to use them outside the tenant.

You’re not missing anything. If I was a cynic, I’d say something like maybe Microsoft didn’t test this scenario…

So maybe you should report it to Microsoft support to make sure that the bug is formally registered and passed to Outlook engineering to be fixed…

Thanks Tony but I meant a different use case: I emailed my bookings page link to someone who opened the email on their mobile device and attempted to book a meeting on their mobile device (Android, in this example).

They got stuck in an eternal loop of: book a time; enter verification code window pops up, exit the booking page to retrieve code, return to the booking page but the ‘enter verification code’ window has closed and the booking has not been saved, rebook meeting, retrieve code, lose meeting…

Which effectively makes the Booking with Me tool useless as the 50%(?) of people who access their email on mobile will not be able to use the link.

Unless I’m missing something?

Outlook mobile is a radically different environment for apps to work in…

I am noticing the same thing! It is very frustrating when I need the private link to book over an over. But my clients are getting the same message even though I did not share the link to only be able to be booked once.

No insight. Sounds like you should file a support incident with Microsoft. They can look at the user’s setup. I cannot.

Thanks for your answer!

I don’t believe so.

I guess you could run through the mailboxes and test if valid URLs exist for each mailbox. If one does, you could use a custom attribute to store a value to say that the URL exists.

Obtaining the URL is rather easy. It seems to be in the form of “https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/@?anonymous” for all users. You can use “Get-Mailbox -ID “” | Select-Object ExchangeGuid” to obtain the GUID. The part that I struggle with is determining if the user has it set up or not. If it is not set up the URL will fail. I did at one point locate where the Bookings settings are stored within the mailbox. I believe i was using EWSEditor or a similar tool. I *think* it was under “IPM.Configuration.Booking.SelfService.Publishing”. I was unable to find a programmatic method of obtaining this information though.

It doesn’t seem that Microsoft has exposed a method to get the public booking page of a user programmatically. Have you asked Microsoft Support? They might be able to get some advice from the engineering team.

We are also working on a similar use case wherein we need to determine if public booking page is available for a user and if yes then get the url of the page. Didn’t find any way to achieve this.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/troubleshoot/calendaring/how-to-use-internet-freebusy-feature

Thanks for the explanation. Next feature MS will need to add is how to delete a calendar once created.

Public bookings might allow anyone in the organization to book a time slot with someone. Private bookings (which could cover a longer slot) might be restricted to the members of someone’s team.

There doesn’t seem to be a public API available for now. At least, I haven’t found one.

Booking is an app for a group of people to schedule the delivery of services, like IT consulting or healthcare.

Booking with me is a way for someone to allow other people (internal and external) to schedule meetings with them.