Display Outlook rooms occupancy in a web page

Question

Hi everybody, I'm decommissioning a meeting room scheduling [web] tool in favor of the same Outlook's functionality. I'd like, however, to publish (read-only) a "Group Schedule" view in a web page.

To make the idea more clear:

On Outlook's Calendar view, select Actions / View Group Schedules and then create a new group for say, Conference Rooms. This new view will give a global view of Conference Rooms occupancy. I need a way to publish this room's occupancy.

Any idea or suggestion?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

For Exchange 2007 and onward come with a handy web service API. A good place to start on that would be to check out the Exchange Web Services Reference.

However, if you're using an older version of Exchange, I think you'll have to look into WebDAV. I've only retrieved calendar events from Exchange 2003, and it was pretty messy. A good article on WebDav can be found over at Marc Charbonneau’s Blog.

Not a complete answer to your question, but it might be a start.

Answer 2

I'm no Outlook Guru, but if you use an iCal (?) calendar provider on the web, like the ones on Live.com, you can view them in Outlook.