Applies ToOutlook for Microsoft 365 Office for business Outlook on the web Microsoft 365 Apps for business Outlook on the web for Exchange Server 2019

Scheduling Poll helps minimize the back-and-forth emails in scheduling by letting you send a poll to attendees inside and outside your organization, so they can vote on which meeting times work best for them. 

Scheduling Poll can be accessed through the following Outlook clients:

  • Outlook on the web

  • Outlook for Mac

  • Outlook for Microsoft 365 on Windows

You can access Scheduling Poll via Mail or Calendar.

  1. Create a new email or select an email to reply to. List required attendees for the meeting in the To field and optional attendees in the Cc field. Select Scheduling poll in the Message tab. 

    Outlook on the web view.

    Simplified ribbon view

  2. Create a new meeting event or select an existing event to edit it. List required attendees in the Invite attendees field and click the optional button to add optional attendees. Select Scheduling poll in the Event tab.

    Shows Save option under the Event tab in the upper left. 

    Classic Ribbon view with event tab outlined in red on the upper left.

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