Configure Meeting Room Space

Schemax Calendar can display the capacity of a meeting room resource if it has has been configured in Exchange Server.

Exchange 2007

In Exchange 2007 meeting rooms have been given their own mailbox type and Exchange administrators can configure meeting room mailbox properties and set the ResourceCapacity attribute. No configuration is needed on the user's computer when Exchange 2007 is the server. Schemax Calendars can display meeting room capacity in Outlook 2003 or 2007.

Exchange 2003

Exchange 2003 does not have distinct mailbox types for meeting rooms; however, each mailbox has custom attributes that can be configured by Exchange administrators. For Schemax Calendar to work with custom attributes in Exchange 2003, administrators need to populate two custom attributes. One is to designate the mailbox a meeting room and the other is to designate the capacity of the meeting room. The first attribute must be set to "ConferenceRoomMailbox" and the second must be a positive integer that specifies the capacity.

The Exchange 2003 custom attributes are named extensionAttribute1, extensionAttribute2, extensionAttribute3 etc. It doesn't matter which ones are used to designate the mailbox type and capacity as long as they are consistent and the attributes are mapped in a client-side configuration file. This file is named "calendar.config" and is located at "C:\Documents and Settings\<user name>\Application Data\Schemax Design\Schemax Calendar\config\calendar.config" where <user name> is the name of the user profile.

The field attributes for the two elements msExchRecipientDisplayType and msExchResourceCapacity must be populated with the names of the two custom attributes set on the server. For example:

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         <exchange>
            <retrievalmethod name="RDO" />
            <msExchRecipientDisplayType field="extensionAttribute1" />
            <msExchResourceCapacity field="extensionAttribute2" />
         </exchange>
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