Setting up a Conference Room as a Resource

[smurfer]

We recently migrated to Exchagne 2000 from 5.5, and previously had all conference rooms setup to book for meetings. From what I understnad this is all handled quite differently in Exch 2000, and I need to setup this up asap. However I have been unable to find any good documention detailing how this should be done in e2k.
Any recommendations or advise on how to do this would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you..

 

[ridley]

Smurfer,

We have done it 2 ways in exchange.

For resources that require free/busy checking we created an actual mailbox for the resource that users that add to their attendee availability list. You can then set that resource up to auto-accept all appointments and/or reject conflicting appointments. At that point have a person in charge of the resource to keep an eye on it.

For resources that do not require free/busy checking we just make a resource in public folders and allow certain users to access it. An example would be a division calendar where people just need to jot down when they are out of office and no approval process is necessary.

Hope this helps. Good luck.

 

[smurfer]

Ridley,
Thank you for your help, I actually discovered how to handle this yesterday, exactly as you specified as your first option. I had an idea of how to do it that way, but was opening the mailbox for the resourse from my profile, which was prohibiting me from getting to that mailbox's true settings. I then logged in as that resoucre, opened it's outlook profile, and was able to get access to all that you mentioned and had it working yesterday.

Thank you for all your help though, I appreciate the assitance.
SM