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How to configure the new Room Finder in Outlook

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May 15, 2020
Did you hear of room lists? What is a room list? A room list is a collection of room mailboxes. Room lists are specially marked distribution groups that you can also use the same way you use ‘regul...
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Sep 20, 2023

Jarrad_McMullen I am with you on that.  I've found everything is working if I patiently wait ~24 hours.

 

I've noticed some things:

  • Unsure of whether or not it helps that I did Set-Place -Building "<displayName of RoomList group named after building/address>" has helped or is pointless text sitting on the Place object in (slow la-la land).
  • This ~24 hour delay business seems to also apply to NON-offline address lists.  If I change the Notes on a RoomList group, those notes won't reflect the changes in the address book anywhere, until the next day.  Same is true for memberships, everything.
    • Sometimes, I think I've spotted this delay NOT being there.  I.e., slightly inconsistent from one day to the next.

Apart from those oddities, stuff seems to be working.  I wish I could see where Audio/Display/VideoDeviceName strings will show up eventually.

 

I haven't done GPS coordinates, not sure if that will help much more than just having the City set on all the rooms (via Set-Place, or Set-User on-prem. for isDirSynced:TRUE objects).  My cities all show up, some magically on their own, some only after I set the City on the Rooms.