Scheduler for Outlook Exchange
Last updated February 1, 2022 Microsoft
The StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange Server is an add-in that allows all Outlook users in an organization to schedule video meetings directly from their Outlook client.
Note: If you have Office 365, you must use the Scheduler for O365 instead. This will give you the best experience when scheduling meetings and has the following advantages:
- Works on macOS and Outlook Web App
- When you make changes to a meeting on any device (desktop, web, or mobile) the updates synchronize with StarLeaf
In this topic:
- Installing the StarLeaf Scheduler
- How to integrate the StarLeaf Scheduler with your room calendar
- How to customize the invitation text
- Proxy support
- Release notes
Users install the StarLeaf Scheduler on their Windows computer or you can mass-deploy the StarLeaf Scheduler.
The StarLeaf Scheduler allows users to schedule meetings from Outlook. The meeting invitations are pre-populated with the correct dial-in details for the video meeting and with invitation text. This invitation text is customizable.
The StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange Server supports Microsoft Outlook 2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019.
- You can invite meeting room systems to the video meeting. StarLeaf meeting room systems display a join button making it very easy for people to join their video meeting
- If you later want to update any of the meeting details (e.g. change the time of your meeting), you can do so by editing the meeting details in your Outlook calendar. All participants receive email updates
- To cancel a meeting, find the meeting details in your Outlook calendar and select Cancel meeting. All participants who accepted the meeting receive email updates informing them that the meeting is canceled
- To convert a regular Outlook meeting into a video meeting, open the meeting details and select schedule:
- Outlook 2010: If you are using this version of Outlook, and you create a repeating conference, you cannot later edit a single occurrence of that conference
Installing the StarLeaf Scheduler
Installing the StarLeaf Scheduler on a computer
- Close Outlook on your computer.
- Download the StarLeaf Scheduler from here .
Clicking the link starts the download automatically. - Run the file you have downloaded and follow onscreen instructions.
- Restart Outlook. A new option appears on the Outlook ribbon:
Mass-deploying the StarLeaf Scheduler for Exchange Server
StarLeaf provides an MSI installer for the StarLeaf Scheduler.
The MSI installer can be used with Microsoft deployment tools to mass deploy the StarLeaf Scheduler to a group of users.
By default the StarLeaf Scheduler installer installs to a single user profile in Windows.
Optionally, you can use the ALLUSERS flag to control this behavior:
- ALLUSERS=0 This is the recommended default and installs to a single user. The StarLeaf Scheduler automatically upgrades in this case
- ALLUSERS=1 This causes a machine-wide install and in this case, auto upgrade is disabled. You need to manually push upgrades to your users
To enable the legacy version of the StarLeaf Scheduler that requires users to sign in, use the parameter LEGACYPASSWORDMODE=1 when you are mass-deploying.
For more information on how to mass deploy the add-in to a group of users, go to Deploy Office add-ins in the Office 365 admin center .
How to integrate the StarLeaf Scheduler with your room calendar
If you use Outlook Calendar to schedule meeting rooms, it is useful to integrate that with the StarLeaf Scheduler. This means that when a user schedules a video meeting, and books a meeting room, the Join button on the meeting room system in that room will automatically light up when the meeting is due to start. To do so:
- Contact StarLeaf technical support to enable this feature for your organization.
- For each meeting room system, go to Edit room system,
How to customize the invitation text
Version 1.9.0d12 required.
For information about customizing invites, go to Customizing invite templates.
Proxy support
StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange Server supports connection through proxies. The add-in supports the HTTP-CONNECT proxy protocol and it uses the proxy configuration from a user’s Internet Explorer proxy settings. The add-in supports all HTTP proxies that Internet Explorer supports. For scheduling meetings, the add-in communicates with api.starleaf.com.
Release notes
Choose a release below to view the new features and issues resolved.
New languages supported
The StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange is now available in the following languages:
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Customizable invites
Admins can now edit the text that appears in invites for meetings that are scheduled using the StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange.
In Portal, go to Sites > Edit site and select Custom > Edit.
For more information about customizing invites, go to Customizing invite templates.
ID | Description |
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33026 | In rare circumstances, if you created a meeting using version 1.6 of the StarLeaf Scheduler, and then updated to version 1.8, you would be unable to edit the meeting you had created in the previous version. From 1.8.0d2, you can now edit any meeting that was created using a previous version of the StarLeaf Scheduler. |
32775 | Meeting invites for French users would sometimes incorrectly display an additional 0 in the country code for phone numbers. This has now been resolved. |
32773 | General improvements to config file compatibility. |
32671 | If your profile name for StarLeaf was different than your profile name in Outlook Exchange, and you tried to create a meeting, StarLeaf would sometimes display a message informing you that you do not currently have permission to create a StarLeaf meeting for someone else. This issue is now fixed. |
1096 | New feature: the StarLeaf Scheduler now supports calendar delegation. |
ID | Description |
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1076 | A small number of users were temporarily unable to schedule meetings using the StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange due to an expired certificate. This issue has now been resolved and the certificate renewed. |
ID | Description |
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28864 | With StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange, you can now create a stream of a StarLeaf meeting to a third-party platform such as YouTube or Vimeo. For more information about live streaming to external platforms, go here. |
29348, 25248 | General improvements to the titles of video layouts and wording of user interface messages in the scheduler. |
26886 | When you download the MSI file for the scheduler, you can now view the version number on the Details tab of the file. |
ID | Description |
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22088 | In previous versions, when you scheduled a meeting, formatted the invite text, and then selected the scheduler, the formatting of that invite text would disappear. From version 1.4, text formatting no longer disappears when you select the scheduler. |
24374 | In previous versions, when you scheduled a meeting, used special characters (for example ú, é, Å) in the invite text, and then selected the scheduler, the special characters would change to alternative and incorrect characters. From version 1.4, special characters are no longer changed when you select the scheduler. |
ID | Description |
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20100 | When you customize the text of an Outlook meeting and subsequently make it a StarLeaf meeting, your text is no longer erased*. This can also be done with a tag in custom footers. For more information about customizing the invite text, go to StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange Server: admin guide *Known limitation: original formatting is removed. |
19879 | StarLeaf can now enable user log in within the password-less authentication flow if required by an organization. |
12825 | Multiple dial-in numbers per country are now provided in the meeting invite. |
ID | Description |
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21065 | The scheduler does not require you to log in with a username and password. However, if you force a log in with your username and password, the scheduler will fail to perform any StarLeaf operations if Outlook is left open for more than an hour. If you wish to continue logging in with a username and password, you can resolve this issue if you close and reopen Outlook. This fix will be rolled out over the coming weeks (from 5 April 2019). |
ID | Description |
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19851 | Bug fix and improvement to the process of editing one meeting in a series of recurring meetings when the privacy setting is enabled. This fix will be rolled out over the coming weeks (from 15 February 2019). |
20210 | Under certain circumstances, if the scheduler was mass-installed using the MSI installer, a request to install the StarLeaf app could appear when you launch the scheduler even if the StarLeaf app is already installed. Cloud 8.7 fixes this issue and this will be visible in the coming weeks (from 15 February 2019). |
ID | Description |
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11867 | If you are a StarLeaf app user, you no longer need to enter your username and password to use the StarLeaf Scheduler for Outlook Exchange Server. The scheduler automatically uses the credentials from when you signed into StarLeaf. |