Add a Google Meet video meeting to a Microsoft Outlook event or email
Google Meet add-in for Microsoft Outlook
It is important here to mention that for installing the Meet Plugin for Microsoft Outlook, you must have administrator privileges on your computer. Once the download is complete and plugin is installed, you can notice 2 new buttons in the Office Ribbon for Outlook Mail and Calendar: one for scheduled and one for unscheduled video calls.
Create a Google Meet video call
For this, click ‘Schedule a Meet’ to create a new meeting populated with Hangouts video call details. Here, you will be presented with ‘Meet Settings’ window. Enter the necessary information and hit the ‘OK’ button. Next, if you are editing a meeting, you can click ‘Add Meet to meeting. This adds the video call name to the location field and instructions for joining the meeting. Thereafter, you can send emails to all participants with the link and meeting details.
Unscheduled
If you would like to start a video session directly, simply, click ‘Start a new Hangout and launch a spontaneous video call. You will find that the video call opens in your default browser.
Add guests
You can invite participants by adding them as a guest in the video call. Simply send an invitation to them and hit the ‘Invite’ button.
That’s it! So if you want to add video calls to Microsoft Outlook meetings, go get the Meet Plugin for Microsoft Outlook here.
