
What I could do though was open the file in Notepad and copy/paste it to Excel, for sorting and identification of multiple bookings from the same email address.) Further reading (Incidentally, Excel wouldn’t open a TSV file for me. TSV file with all of the bookings each day will allow those to be identified and remediated. There’s no mechanism for preventing multiple/duplicate bookings but a simple manual check to export a. all of the slots for a session are full), it’s no longer offered in the calendar.

Once all of the staff available for a session are booked (i.e. 10 people in each session, 10 slots so 10 “staff”). A number of dummy “staff” for the number of slots in each session (e.g.Use this to control when services are provided (e.g. It took some thinking about how to do this for my End User Device Handover scenario but I set up: Each “staff member” needs to have a valid email address but they don’t need to be a real person – all of the email messages could be directed to a single mailbox, which also reduces the number of licences needed to operate the solution. The app is built around a calendar on a website, with a number of services and assigned staff. So, how do I configure Microsoft Bookings? When I enabled it on my trial tenant, I received an invoice for £0.00. The process to add the Business Apps (free) – including Bookings – to an Enterprise tenant will depend on whether it’s Credit Card (PAYG), Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP) licenced but it’s fully documented by Microsoft. Most of my customers use an E3 or E5 subscription and I was able to successfully test on a trial E3 tenant. That’s because, by default, it’s not there for Enterprise customers. I can’t see Microsoft Bookings in my tenant!

You could equally apply the app to other scenarios though: a hairdressing salon bike repairs or IT Services.

Microsoft Bookings is designed for small businesses and the example given in the Microsoft documentation is a pet grooming parlour. We’ve tried using a PowerApps app, and a SharePoint calendar extension but then Microsoft made their Bookings app available on Office 365 Enterprise subscriptions (it was previously only available for Business subscriptions). Over the last few years, I’ve worked on projects that have used a variety of systems to manage the allocation of training/handover sessions to people but they’ve always been lacking in some way. Whilst technologies like Windows 10 Autopilot will take us to a place where users can self-provision, often there’s more involved and some training is required to help users to adopt the technology (and potentially associated business changes). End-user computing (EUC) refreshes can place significant logistical challenges on an organisation.
