How to set time zone in microsoft teams - Hybrid Deployment

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How to set time zone in microsoft teams - Hybrid Deployment

Rowan Scott 0

Hello,

We are using teams in our organisation, and we're bringing on board some more people who are in different timezones.

I've taken a look at this thread here: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-to-set-time-zone-in-microsoft-teams/ce83d312-6e86-4ee3-bdd2-0abda9d303f7?page=2

Which shows that changing the settings on outlook.office.com or myaccount.microsoft.com will add this feature. However, this hasn't worked.

I expect that this may be to do with the fact that we are using a Hybrid deployment at the moment. Is there a way to enable this feature?

Here are screenshots of my profile, and another users profile - neither show timezones

this is following on from https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msteams/forum/all/how-to-set-time-zone-in-microsoft-teams-hybrid/7f127a3b-6e79-4fb8-8315-7f680829055f?messageId=b4aed76c-1e4e-4748-aea9-e925465d542d

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Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Microsoft External Staff

Hi @Rowan Scott ,

Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A platform!

Perhaps you could try the following cmdlet:
1.Connect to Exchange Online using PowerShell:

$UserCredential = Get-Credential
Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName $UserCredential.UserName -ShowProgress $true

2.Change the user's time zone:

$users = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter{(RecipientTypeDetails -eq <RoomMailbox>)}
$users | %{Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration $_.Identity -TimeZone <Pacific Standard Time>}

In your case, it is similar to what I had before:https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/2168275/time-zone-new-created-users-have-wrong-time-zone-g

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Rowan Scott 0

Hello,

Thanks for your reply! I sadly get this error when attempting to run this command:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName $UserCredential.UserName -ShowProgress $true$users = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter{(RecipientTypeDetails -eq UserMailbox)}
Connect-ExchangeOnline : The term 'Connect-ExchangeOnline' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script
file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct
and try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName $UserCredential.UserName -S ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Connect-ExchangeOnline:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

This is in a Hybrid deployment, so this is running on the on-premise mail server

Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-11T01:51:40.3033333+00:00
Your filter parameter is written incorrectly, see the following example:

$users = Get-Mailbox -ResultSize unlimited -Filter "RecipientTypeDetails -eq 'UserMailbox'"

If this answer helps you please mark "Accept Answer" so other users can reference it.

Rowan Scott 0

Hiya @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd)

Thanks for your reply!

After connecting to exchange online via my on-premise exchange server, I get the below when running "Get-Mailbox":

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox
Name                      Alias                ServerName       ProhibitSendQuota
----                      -----                ----------       -----------------
DiscoverySearchMailbox... DiscoverySearchMa... db5pr10mb7723    50 GB (53,687,091,200 bytes)

Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T01:15:42.88+00:00

Could you change the time zone correctly now?
Rowan Scott 0 Reputation points

2025-03-13T01:20:34.5633333+00:00

Hiya @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) ,

As Get-Mailbox is not giving me a list of all my users, I don't think the change as applied.
Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T01:38:57.21+00:00

It looks like it is not connecting to exchange online correctly, try completing the above steps again.

Rowan Scott 0

Hi @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd)

Thanks for your help!

Here's the full output:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>$UserCredential = Get-Credential
cmdlet Get-Credential at command pipeline position 1
Supply values for the following parameters:
Credential
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Connect-ExchangeOnline -UserPrincipalName $UserCredential.UserName -ShowProgress $true
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This V3 EXO PowerShell module contains new REST API backed Exchange Online cmdlets which doesn't require WinRM for Client-Server communication. You can now run these cmdlets after turning off WinRM Basic Auth in your client machine thus making it more secure.
Unlike the EXO* prefixed cmdlets, the cmdlets in this module support full functional parity with the RPS (V1) cmdlets.
V3 cmdlets in the downloaded module are resilient to transient failures, handling retries and throttling errors inherently.
REST backed EOP and SCC cmdlets are also available in the V3 module. Similar to EXO, the cmdlets can be run without WinRM basic auth enabled.
For more information check https://aka.ms/exov3-module
Starting with EXO V3.7, use the LoadCmdletHelp parameter alongside Connect-ExchangeOnline to access the Get-Help cmdlet, as it will not loaded by default.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Get-Mailbox
Name                      Alias                ServerName       ProhibitSendQuota
----                      -----                ----------       -----------------
DiscoverySearchMailbox... DiscoverySearchMa... db5pr10mb7723    50 GB (53,687,091,200 bytes)

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>

Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T02:10:56.4033333+00:00

That's strange, try recreating an admin to get the user again?
Rowan Scott 0 Reputation points

2025-03-13T02:16:19.6766667+00:00

Thanks @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd)

I'm thinking that it could be because there are no mailboxes in the cloud, as all the mailboxes are on-premise, but the hybrid deployment is setup
Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T02:22:29.2266667+00:00
You can change the local time zone by changing:

Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -Identity “user@example.com” -TimeZone “Your Standard Time”

Then synchronize to the cloud if needed.

Rowan Scott 0

Hiya @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) ,

Since no users exist on exchange online, the below error occurs:

[PS] C:\Windows\system32>Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration -Identity "******@domain.tld" -TimeZone "GMT Standard Time"
Write-ErrorMessage : ||The specified mailbox Identity:"
******@domain.tld" doesn't exist.
At C:\Users\administrator.DOMAIN\AppData\Local\Temp\2\tmpEXO_ocf21jpg.r3t\tmpEXO_ocf21jpg.r3t.psm1:1189 char:13
+             Write-ErrorMessage $ErrorObject
+             ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (:) [Set-MailboxRegionalConfiguration], ManagementObjectNotFoundException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : [Server=AS8PR10MB4934,RequestId=06a0ac60-6206-e2a4-daf7-85dc5eea1362,TimeStamp=Thu, 13 M
   ar 2025 02:51:11 GMT],Write-ErrorMessage
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>

Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T02:55:57+00:00

This cmdlet applies when the exhcange server is not online
Rowan Scott 0 Reputation points

2025-03-13T03:15:08.2+00:00

Hi @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd)

Thanks! The command ran successfully.

Sadly, I'm not seeing the timezones appear in MS Teams after restarting the application.
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Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd) 1,040 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2025-03-13T05:55:22.3233333+00:00

It was my mistake, I think I misinterpreted your question. teams displaying timezones is a default feature, please refer to it:https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/change-settings-in-microsoft-teams-b506e8f1-1a96-4cf1-8c6b-b6ed4f424bc7
Rowan Scott 0 Reputation points

2025-03-13T12:54:41.44+00:00

Hiya @Tianyi Chang (Shanghai Wicresoft Co Ltd)

No worries! My devices timezone is set correctly. However, teams is still not displaying users timezones.

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