AskCody Add-ins now available in Microsoft Teams

A Unified Scheduling Experience Across Outlook & Teams

With Microsoft’s recent exciting announcement about the launch of the new calendar in Teams now being generally available, we’re just as excited to announce that AskCody is coming to Teams and is already now available to all customers, too.

The well-known and familiar AskCody Add-ins for Microsoft Outlook for room booking and workspace scheduling, service requests and meeting catering, and visitor management, are now available for Microsoft Teams as well, providing a unified AskCody experience across the Microsoft universe in Outlook and Teams.

Microsoft’s new Teams calendar is designed for familiarity and reliability, while incorporating the latest innovations in Microsoft Copilot and Places to elevate the scheduling and time management experience.  The new calendar delivers a unified experience with Outlook, so users can enjoy the same modern and intelligent calendar across both Teams and Outlook, both for the client for Mac and Windows, as well as for Microsoft 365.

Unified Calendar Experience

The new unified calendar integrates the Outlook calendar into Teams, offering a single, cohesive calendar experience for users. This update also brings more feature parity across the Teams and Outlook calendars. Outlook features coming to Teams include delegate access, print support, expanded calendar settings, filtering, support for multiple time zones, time suggestions in scheduling, support for attachments, and more. Let’s take a closer look at these and additional experiences coming to Teams calendar below. And now also the ability to run modern add-ins, as in Outlook.

Cutting-edge experiences

This evolution of the unified Microsoft calendar, fully integrated and supported by AskCody, empowers you to achieve more by incorporating the latest innovations from both Copilot and Places to help infuse intelligence into time management and scheduling. Copilot capabilities like managed booking are available in the new calendar experience. Places capabilities like workplace presence and the Places card are also available. With a Teams Premium license, advanced capabilities like quick book and Places finder are available in the new calendar.

Save time with easy scheduling

Creating meetings is now more intuitive. You can quickly create a meeting from the quick view by clicking on a timeslot in your calendar or by opening the new scheduling form. The new scheduling form includes refreshed meeting options and templates for different meeting types

Improved customization and multitasking

Users can now customize the Teams calendar settings more, including start and end times for events, location settings, and more. You can also share your calendar with others in your organization and print your entire calendar. Lastly, the new calendar can be popped out as a separate window, allowing you to multitask more effectively.

On multitasking, the new unified calendar gives meeting admins, conference services teams, hospitality teams and service staff even better options and power, when it comes to managing meetings.

As you know, you can direct access the AskCody Portal with a Desktop App (or check the videos with pro tips here on how to turn AskCody into a native app on your Mac or PC) meaning there is no need to open your browser, search for the AskCody Portal, and then log in to access it. 1 click on the AskCody desktop app, and you are in Central, Services, Visitors, or other favorite tools in the AskCody Portal. You can even skip the log-in to AskCody if your organization has enabled SSO (Single-sign-on).

With the AskCody Desktop App and the new Unified Calendar in Teams (or Outlook, as it’s the same for the Outlook Calendar), multitasking is a breeze.

If you open the new calendar in Teams, while opening the AskCody Desktop App you’ll have meetings, visitors, services and Teams Calendar and Chat all available at your fingertips. This is really a powerful combination for receptionists, hospitality teams, conference service teams, and Facility Management teams.

You can even initiate and start a Teams Chat right from AskCody to meeting organizers, to notify and inform about changes to meetings.

How to Access AskCody in Teams

Enabling AskCody in Teams is simple and requires no extra setup if your organization already has the latest version of the AskCody Add-ins deployed.

1. Open Microsoft Teams and navigate to the Calendar app
2. Toggle on "New Calendar" (top-right corner)
3. AskCody Add-ins will appear automatically in the new Teams Calendar experience

📌 Requirements

• Latest version of AskCody Add-ins (Bookings, Services, Visitors)
• Microsoft SSO enabled for a seamless, login-free experience with access to the described multitasking scenarios and starting Teams chats from AskCody

Try it out and let us know what you think!