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Academic Calendar. Calendar of Events. SAS Events. SAS Home. Division of Life Sciences. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Office of Administration. Information Technology. Docusign Documentation Details Docusign Details. Ignite Gallery Web Development Joomla! Workshop Documents Docusign. Begin to schedule a new meeting by selecting New Meeting in the top left-hand of your screen. You will now see the new meeting window. Select the Add a Zoom Meeting icon in the top right. You have to view the full details of the meeting in order to view the Zoom button.

Scheduling a meeting from Outlook can save time as the meeting invitation is automatically generated in an email.

You can set up a meeting with either the Outlook client version or the web app. To create a meeting using the client version of Outlook, you must be running Exchange on the backend. You first need to install the Zoom add-in for Outlook. To do this for your own account, open Outlook and click the icon or menu for Add-ins. In the Search Add-Ins field, type zoom. From the search results, click the Add button for Zoom for Outlook. Click Continue to install the Zoom add-in. The add-in will now appear when you attempt to schedule a meeting Figure A.

Select Settings and then go to Add-Ins. At the pane to Deploy a new add-in, click Next. Then click the button to Choose from the Store Figure C. In the Search field, type zoom. In the first section for Assign users, determine whether you want to install the add-in for everyone, just for specific users or groups, or just for yourself. In the second section, decide on the deployment method. When done, click the Deploy button Figure E.

You can then close the Office Admin portal. Note that it could take up to 12 hours for the add-in to be deployed to your users depending on the size of your organization. But it should appear more quickly than that. First, browse to the Zoom for Outlook download page at the Microsoft app store. Click the button to Get it now Figure F.

Sign in with the account you use for Outlook on the web. Continue from there, and the Outlook web app will open. When done, close the Zoom windows in Outlook. To set up a Zoom meeting in the Outlook desktop client, click the icon for New Items and select Meetings.

At the Meeting invitation, click the toolbar icon for Add a Zoom Meeting. Sign in with your Zoom account. Notice that the email is automatically populated with the link, ID, password, and other details for your meeting.

Fill out the remaining details and then send the invitation Figure H. To set up your meeting in the Outlook web app, click the Calendar icon at the bottom of the left pane. Click the button for New Event. At the invitation window, click the link for More options. Then at the full invitation window, click the Zoom icon at the top and select Add a Zoom Meeting.

Add the necessary details and send the invitation Figure I.