HMC tips for Exchange: Part 1 - Adding a Room

Published on 14 July 2008 • Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

First of a new series, but this is more a mini-series (just three parts). It is just a follow-up to the last series Zen of Hosting, so it focuses on a few tips for working with HMC. All this series is from HMC 4.0, so on 4.5, your mileage may vary.

The first part is how to add a room—because meeting scheduling is kind of important. To do that, first add a user via the normal UI (i.e., the web portal). From this point, it’s actually normal stuff for adding a room:

1. Go into AD Users and Groups and disable the user.
2. Then go into the Exchange Management Console and add a room to your existing (disabled) user.
3. Viola, done.

The GAL and other Exchange/AD stuff is maintained because the user was added via the HMC way.