Viewing Guests' Availabilities (Google and Exchange Users) in a Calendar Event
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Google Calendar
This Information is Intended for:
Instructors,
Guests,
Researchers,
Staff,
Students
Created: 11/15/2018 Last Updated: 03/01/2024
Stony Brook Google Calendar users and Microsoft Outlook (Exchange) users can view each other’s free/busy times in their respective Calendar programs.
Google Calendar
For Google Calendar users
- Add guests' Stony Brook email addresses
- For Stony Brook Medicine users, you must use their @stonybrookmedicine.edu email addresses (using Stony Brook Medicine users' @stonybrook.edu email addresses will not work but will indicate that the calendar can't be displayed by an *)
- Google Calendar users may see up to 62 days into the future when using the Find a Time or Meet With functions.
- Click Find a Time, and if you have access to view their free/busy time, their free/busy times will display
- If guests' names have * after them, their calendar can't be displayed (because you may not have permission to the indicated calendars or the guests may not use a supported calendar)
Microsoft Outlook (Exchange)
For Microsoft Outlook (Exchange) users
(the way you access Scheduling and how it looks might be slightly different depending on your version of Outlook)
- Add guests' Stony Brook email addresses (@stonybrookmedicine.edu or @stonybrook.edu)
- Click Scheduling, and if you have access to their free/busy time, their availabilities will display
- If displays for guests, their free/busy information is not available.