Resource room default to Resource 1

[skalman08]

I have five conference rooms set up as Resource Rooms in Exchange 2007 and they work great. My boss wants me to see if I can make the conference rooms to show up as Resources automatically when they pick the room as an attendee.
When someone wants to set up a meeting in a conference room they type in the name of the attendee's in the scheduling tab. When all names and the conference room is in the list they have to go back and click on the arrow next to the conference room and change it to a resource. Is there a way to make it always default to a resource? (I know if the pick the room from the GAL they can put it in as a Resource)

Thank you for your help

/Mats

 

[Zelandakh]

Time to delve into Powershell but I can't recall the exact line...

set-mailbox xxx -type:room
or
set-mailbox xxx -room

You don't want -resource since it is a room.

 

[58sniper]

Right. Resource would be something in the room, like a projector.


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[Zelandakh]

Wish I could remember the syntax - thought I'd blogged it but apparently not and I normally blog things so I don't need to remember them...

 

[58sniper]

set-mailbox "my room" -type:room

is correct

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb123981(EXCHG.80).aspx

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Zelandakh]

Yay...though it was a guess. I'd connect to my 2007 HT if I wanted.

 

[skalman08]

Thank you both Zelandakh and 58sniper for your help. The syntax is correct, but when I entered it Exchange tells me that the mailbox is already a room.
Maybe I just too picky here, but when someone sets up a meeting and they type in the name, not pick it from the address book, the conference room shows up as a person and you have to manually change it to a resource.
I wonder if it's possible to set the conference room to always be a room, so no matter how you pick the attendee, the room shows up as a room.

Thank you

 

[Zelandakh]

Rewarded for reposting my info...

What version of Outlook are you using?

 

[skalman08]

Outlook 2003

 

[Zelandakh]

Outlook 2003 doesn't have the concept of rooms - that wasn't done until 2007.

 

[skalman08]

So there's no property I can set for a mailbox that Outlook 2003 would recognize as a room and set it to a resource room by default?

 

[Zelandakh]

No.