The question came during a meeting, who want’s to be responsible for creating the room mailboxes? I figured it would be interesting to brush up on powershell so I grabbed it. I started of creating a csv file containing the following headers.

 

Displayname, UserPrincipalName,Office,ResourceCapacity,OrganizationalUnit

 

Regarding Office, this is what shows up in the addresslist so if you have several locations it is a good idea to populate this property. When the csv file was ready (make sure it’s comma-seperated, not semicolon) I ran the following command.

import-csv [pathtocsv] | foreach-object {new-mailbox -Name $_.DisplayName -DisplayName $_.DisplayName -UserPrincipalName $_.UserPrincipalName -Office $_.Office -ResourceCapacity $_.ResourceCapacity -OrganizationalUnit $_.OrganizatinalUnit -Room}

 

Since the Rooms are not active until a couple of weeks I ran the following command to hide them from the addresslists. this csv contained the alias of the room mailboxes.

import-csv [pathtocsv] | foreach-object {set-mailboxfolderpermission -Identity $_.Alias -HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled $true}

 

Since I want all users to see who the meeting organizer is I created one more csv file containing the alias of the rooms and added the following tail.

mbxident

“r164:\Calendar”

import-csv [pathtocsv] | foreach-object {set-mailboxfolderpermission $_.mbxident -User Default -AccessRights ReadItems}

 

Looking back you could put all values in the same csv file to prepare everything before you run the commands, the csv file would then look something like this.

Displayname, UserPrincipalName,Office,ResourceCapacity,OrganizationalUnit,Alias,mbxident

 

When formating the csv file dont forget to put ” ” if you have spaces and make sure you dont have trailing white spaces.

 

/Nike