What is the best way to query Outlook Calendar data/get meeting reports?

Question

I'm trying to figure out the best way to query and/or run reports on meeting data from Outlook. We don't use teams, but everyone uses Outlook for scheduling meetings, so I'm trying to get data on how much time our company, teams, and users are spending in meetings.

Answer 1

Outlook Optics might help. It provides centralized views, analytics and reporting on Outlook calendars.

https://www.timewatch.com/products/outlook-optics/

Answer 2

Hello @Obi-Wan Maloney,

Use the email activity reports to get email trend of the amount of email activity going on in your organization. You can understand the split of email send, email read, email received, meeting created, or meeting interacted activities.

You can use the below APIs to get email activities:

getEmailActivityUserDetail, getEmailActivityCounts, getEmailActivityUserCounts.

These methods return a 302 Found response that redirects to a preauthenticated download URL for the report. This report will have "Meeting created actions" and "Meeting interacted actions" details.

Documentation reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/admin/activity-reports/email-activity-ww?redirectSourcePath=%252fclient%252fEmail-activity-1cbe2c00-ca65-4fb9-9663-1bbfa58ebe44&view=o365-worldwide#:~:text=Meeting%20created%20actions,cancel%20action%20was%20recorded%20for%20the%20user.

Hope this helps.

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