In addition to mailboxes, groups, and external contacts, recipients can also include specific rooms or pieces of equipment. Locations such as a conference room or a classroom can be given a mailbox so that they can be reserved for meetings. Equipment mailboxes can be assigned to physical, non-location specific resources, such as laptops or projectors, and can then be checked out to individual users or groups by booking a time with the mailbox. In this recipe, we'll take a look at how you can manage resource mailboxes using the Exchange Management Shell.
When creating a resource mailbox from within the shell, the syntax is similar to creating a mailbox for a regular user. For example, you still use the New-Mailbox cmdlet when creating a resource mailbox:
New-Mailbox -Name "CR23" -DisplayName "Conference Room 23" ` -UserPrincipalName [email protected] -Room