Connect a Microsoft 365 calendar

Connecting a Microsoft 365 calendar puts Today's meetings on your Canto home screen and is the usual route to Microsoft Teams meetings: invites scheduled in Outlook or Teams carry the join link, and the notetaker bot picks them up from there.

How do I connect it?

1. Open calendar settings — the Calendars section ("Meetings on your home screen").
2. Choose Connect Microsoft / Teams.
3. A Microsoft sign-in window opens. Both work or school accounts and personal Microsoft accounts work. Approve read access to your calendar — Microsoft shows the consent step once; after that, reconnects are near-silent.
4. When it finishes, the account is listed as Connected and today's meetings appear on your home screen.

You can connect multiple accounts — a work tenant and a personal Outlook calendar side by side — and toggle individual calendars within each. See Manage calendar accounts and toggles.

How does this relate to Teams meetings?

Teams meetings live on your Microsoft calendar, so connecting it is what makes them appear in Canto with a bot toggle. That covers meetings you organize and invitations you receive, including external ones — Canto reads the join link from the invite even when it's buried in the description or wrapped by Outlook's safelinks. From there, auto-join works like on any platform: the bot arrives at start time and the organiser admits it from the Teams lobby.

Meet and Zoom invites on a Microsoft calendar work too — the platform of the meeting matters, not the calendar it sits on.

What does Canto do with my calendar?

Canto reads event details to show today's meetings and improve notes. It never writes to your calendar.

Access is read-only and fetched live — Canto keeps no synced copy of your schedule. A single event's details (title, attendees, description) are snapshotted onto a recording only when a note is started for it; see How Canto links recordings to meetings.

Troubleshooting

The connection fails with an admin or permissions error?

Some organizations restrict which apps may read calendars. If your tenant requires admin consent, the connect attempt ends with "Connection didn't finish" — ask your Microsoft 365 administrator to approve calendar read access for Canto, then connect again. Personal Microsoft accounts are never affected by this.

The connect window closed without finishing?

If the browser blocked the popup, allow popups for Canto and retry. A failed attempt leaves nothing behind — start again from Connect Microsoft / Teams.

It says my account "needs to be reconnected"?

Password changes, conditional-access policies, or an admin revoking sessions can invalidate Canto's access. The account row shows "needs to be reconnected" — click it and sign in again; your settings and recordings are untouched. See Calendar events aren't showing up.