Setting up an MS Calendar license for use with Forms

asked on November 16, 2022

For any of you IT people out there, can you help me with something? I'm looking at requesting a budget to purchase a license for a MS Calendar to be used with Laserfiche Forms regarding booking events.

Example: We have a form for booking a campground, which once approved is posted to a MS Calendar. The booking calendar is built within my MS Outlook Account and my IT person at the time was concerned the security of it. He recommended that we purchase a license for a ... less expensive MS Outlook license that would only be used for calendars for different types of events. This IT person is now not with us and I cannot find out the right info in order to present my idea to my supervisor, who also is not familiar with these things.

Anyone else done this or knows what he was talking about? My understanding is the yearly costs for this license would be much less than the cost for the usual Outlook accounts that each one of us has.

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Microsoft Calendar (part of Outlook) or Microsoft Bookings?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/bookings/bookings-overview

Microsoft Bookings appears to be included with all Microsoft 365 license tiers (under "Project and customer relationship management"):

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/business#compareProductsRegion

Might be different with Office 365 licensing.

Edit: I've anecdotally heard good things about Calendly, which might be worth looking at too. I/we have no affiliation with them.

Generally speaking, it's a good idea to have the booking/event calendar associated with a service account of some sort rather than an individual employee's.

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