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Extending the Booking days for Conference Room Calendar (Resource)

October 13, 2016 by mo wasay

By default Office365 limits Resource booking days to just 180 days. The maximum days it can be booked for 1080 days. I like to make resource booking days 1 year from the day of making the reservation/ appointment. Now instead of visiting each calendar and making the change, powershell can help us out.

#Connect to Office365 
$cred = Get-Credential
Import-Module MSOnline
Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred
$s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection
$importresults = Import-PSSession $s

#Get all the Rooms and make the booking days to 365
Get-MailBox | Where {$_.ResourceType -eq "Room"} | Set-CalendarProcessing -BookingWindowInDays 365

#Connect to Office365

$cred = Get-Credential

Import-Module MSOnline

Connect-MsolService -Credential $cred

$s = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $cred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection

$importresults = Import-PSSession $s

#Get all the Rooms and make the booking days to 365

Get-MailBox | Where {$_.ResourceType -eq "Room"} | Set-CalendarProcessing -BookingWindowInDays 365

Outlook: Removing Copy from all the Calendar entries after importing from PST

August 22, 2016July 2, 2015 by mo wasay

This article applies to Outlook 2007 and 2010. If you are experiencing this issue with other mail clients, please contact Support. The “Copy” prefix is usually added to calendar items when items are imported from a PST file or copied from another calendar. To avoid this happening move items to the calendar instead of importing: … Read moreOutlook: Removing Copy from all the Calendar entries after importing from PST

Set a Room Mailbox to Show Details of a Meeting in its Calendar

August 22, 2016February 17, 2012 by mo wasay

You may notice that meetings with a â€˜Roomâ€™ mailbox will by default only show a â€œBusyâ€ status. Many, including the organisation I work for, wish to have (at the very minimum) the following displayed in the Roomâ€™s calendar: Organiser of the meeting, and The subject of the meeting Below I will demonstrate how to set … Read moreSet a Room Mailbox to Show Details of a Meeting in its Calendar