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I would like to ask how do you create a resource in Exchange. ie. a meeting room resource where people can book the room with outlook.

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by xiaxiong

What you want to do is create a calendar in the "public folders" box. To do this, open an Outlook client with the appropriate permissions. Go into your folders (Outlook Today or any other mailbox with a calendar), find the calendar, and right click on it. From there, choose "copy calendar", and it will open a browse box of your folders. Select the "all public folders" tree under "public folders". Usually this is at the bottom, and you may have to expand the tree. Presto, you now have a calendar in the public folders that you can use as your resource. You can right click it and rename it to "meeting room" or whatever. You can also select properties and the administration tabs to set access, etc.

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by jvh

I believe you have to create a mailbox for that resource in Exchange. This allows you to choose the meeting room when sheduling a meeting in Outlook. This is done the same way as when you invite users to the meeting. Also when others want to use that room at the same time that resouce shows up as being busy. In exchange you pretty much treat your resources as you would a regular user. Hope that answer it for you.

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