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Student users in the wrong time zone still cause problems with our equipment circulation system
- Imagine you are trying to pick up an item on local time, but the previous users will return it on Japan time – or (like in the example below)`vice versa. It happens all the time here …
- We can see the misconfiguration when opening the meeting in Outlook (Desktop), but we rarely do this.
- What gets routinely done here is opening the meeting in the OWA of the organizer:
- is there an obvious way to see the time zone for the organizer?
- The best I have found is this, and it is anything but obvious, deeply hidden in the OWA settings dialogues. Any change with Office365?
How users can change their time zone in OWA
Or as screenshot: 
You know: You just have to know what to look for – considerably easier than knowing *when* to look for pretty much anything once you have been put in the wrong time zone… 
Protected: Students still in wrong time zones in live@edu
Time-zone issues when creating meeting requests
Do the clouds change with the time zones you are in, or can the cloud also change your time zone? 
We are seeing strange inconsistencies of time zones in meeting requests with on-premise resource mailboxes from hosted student accounts…
When students say they see the “correct” time in *their* calendar, they should verify their time zone settings. In OWA/NINERMAIL, upper right corner: Options / See All Options / left menu: Settings / top menu: Calendar / you can check your time zone. In OWA / upper right corner: Options / See All Options / left menu: Settings / top menu: Regional / bottom drop-down:, you can change your time zone, like in the last dropdown here:
From setting up calendaring infrastructure for a university using Windows Live Accounts only, I remember that users, when they manually created their accounts, failed to look at the time zone dropdown. So instead of at Greenwich time, they ended up at Pacific time which seems the default for MS products.
That’s one of the reasons why I am glad not having to use Windows Live Accounts for the enterprise anymore. Now how can time zones be not set up properly for student accounts in a hosted environment? And this time we see not only the Pacific, but also Monrovia… 
The answer seems to be: Even though large institutions may be creating 25000 accounts when they start using live@edu, there seems to be no way to set a default time zone in live@edu to where the client predominantly does business. It seems still the server time that sets the default offered to the new user on login. I could tell you a story or two why that needs fixing…
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