Managing room mailboxes

The resource mailbox concept is not new in Exchange. Starting Exchange 2007, the concept of a room mailbox was introduced to allow users to book a meeting room, conference room, or training facility from their clients by inviting the room mailboxes in their meeting.

Let's create a room mailbox for the conference room on the first floor of Building 1. The mailbox will be located on Mailbox Database 1. The –Room parameter will define this mailbox as a Room Mailbox. The display name that users will see in the Global Address List is Building 1—Conference Room 1:

New-Mailbox -Database "Mailbox Database 1" -Name Bld1ConfRoom1 - -DisplayName "Building 1 - Conference Room 1" –Room

You can view the settings of an existing room mailbox using this:

Get-Mailbox –identity Bld1ConfRoom1 | Format-List Name, PrimarySMTPAddress, RecipientTypeDetails

If you have more than hundred room mailboxes in your organization, it will be easier to manage them by creating a room list. A room list...