(Update)Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction

1. 8 Dec 2025
   • Title Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction → (Update)Support for Events from email in Outlook is changing—Schema.org markup required for reliable calendar extraction
   • Act by 15 Dec 2025 → 30 Jan 2026
   • Tags Feature update, User impact, Admin impact, Retirement → Updated message, Feature update, User impact, Admin impact, Retirement

   Updated December 8, 2025: We have updated the content and timeline. Thank you for your patience.  Introduction Outlook’s Events from email feature helps users stay organized by automatically … It is technically impossible to make further improvements to the old stack. By January 2026,Without migration to Schema.org, the oldquality and reliability of event extraction stack will no longer be supported.will continue to degrade over time. Screenshot of Settings > Calendar > Events from email When this will happen: Legacy extraction will be retiredWe encourage providers to transition to Schema.org as early as possible, as continued reliance on January 31, 2026. After this date, only emails using Schema.org markup will legacy support is not sustainable. Organizations that do not migrate may experience a gradual decline in the accuracy, reliability, and consistency of automatically generated events. These issues cannot be supported for automatic event extraction.fixed on the legacy stack, the only long-term solution is migration to Schema.org standards. How this affects your organization: Who is affected: Organizations whose users rely … (e.g., airlines, hotels, travel agencies, delivery services). What will happen: Emails that continue to rely on legacy extraction will stop generating events after January 2026.may experience increasing failures, missing events, and incorrect calendar entries over time. Emails using Schema.org markup will continue to generate calendar events automatically. Partners … and more reliable event extraction. What you can do to prepare: Identify providers (e.g., airlines, hotels, your Corporate travel agencies, and delivery partners) that send partner(s) that are sending booking confirmation emails to your users. Work with thoseemployees and reach out to them for adopting Schema.org support To determine whether a provider is using Legacy or Schema.org, you can safely assume most providers to adopt Schema.org markup for supported scenarios. If you’d likeare still on Legacy- our data shows that 94% of providers remain on legacy extraction. To get more assistance on onboarding a provider to schema.org,Schema.org, please reach out to  [email protected] along with your provider details.details/contacts and the domains from which these mails are sent, so they can be whitelisted. A detailed onboarding & testing process will be shared.  Communicate this change to helpdesk staff. Compliance considerations No compliance considerations identified, …

2. 24 Sep 2025 · first version seen

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