Notification when Equipment is Reserved?

Howdy,

We have some Equipment Mailboxes setup for things like Projectors, Wireless Presenters, and Hot Spots.  When someone sets up a meeting then can reserve a piece of equipment if they need one.  All the equipment is stored in the IT area so I'm wondering if there's a way that we can have an email get sent to a certain email address any time someone reserves equipment, or if there's some other way to get notified so we can have the equipment ready for them to stop by and pick it up.

Does that make sense?

Thanks!

April 13th, 2015 1:32pm

Thanks.  I figured it'd have something to do with Delegation.

We currently have our boxes setup to use the "Customized Setting to accept or decline booking requests" which means I can't setup a Booking Delegate so I'm hoping this works with regular Mailbox Delegates?  We don't want the person to have to approve anything we just want to get notified once a reservation has been made.

I'll try setting up the various mailbox delgate options and see what we get.

Thanks.

April 14th, 2015 9:37am

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April 14th, 2015 4:08pm

Well, I tried doing it with delegation but I never received any emails.  I changed the autoaccept to the normal Always Accept setting but the delegate didn't receive any notification.

I found something online that mentioned doing this via a Transport Rule.

Did I just possibly do something wrong with the delegation setup?

I don't want out IT team to have to approve anything, I just want them to get notified when something is reserved so they know to get it ready.

April 14th, 2015 5:04pm

Look at Set-CalendarProcessing -ForwardRequestsToDelegates

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335046%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

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April 14th, 2015 9:00pm

That sounds like it forwards the incoming request to reserve the item to the delegate.  If the mailbox automatically declines it because there was a problem, then we don't want to get it at all.  We only want to get it after it's be accepted.
April 14th, 2015 10:39pm

I tried doing the Transport Rule method but the message that gets sent FROM the equipment mailbox back to the user doesn't include the user's information.  If I add myself as a BCC to that message I can tell Someone reserved something but can't tell who.

Hmm.

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April 20th, 2015 3:10pm