• How to Add a Meeting Room to Outlook or Office 365 for Free

  How to Add a Meeting Room to Outlook or Office 365 for Free How to add a meeting room to Outlook & Office 365 for Free If you’ve been a part of an organization with Meeting Rooms integrated into Outlook and Office 365, you know how easy and convenient it is to manage and book conference rooms right from your Outlook or mobile calendar. To do this, you can take advantage of a feature hidden-away in your Office 365 account called Resource Mailboxes. Resource Mailboxes get their ownPopular

• Android Tablet Setup Guide

  Provision Tablets First, you will need to setup your tablet to act as a meeting room display. We support native apps for most devices on Android, and you can also use any device with a Web Browser, in full-screen mode. Enable DeveloSome readers

• Amazon Fire OS Tablet Setup Guide

  Update: Fire OS 5+ I want to start off by saying this guide was relatively simple and effortless when it was written, targeting Fire OS 4. Recent updates from Amazon have made this process a lot more complicated, as they have fiddled wSome readers

• Fix Meeting Room Subjects (Office 365 - PowerShell)

  Solution to a common Office 365 & Exchange Resource Mailbox Issue In Office 365 & Microsoft Exchange, by default, your resource mailbox won’t show your Meeting Subject. Instead, it replaces this with your organizer’s name. This occurs for privacy reasons, but it’s only the default. Most organizations opt to see meeting subjects instead. You can read more about this issue in another article, Display shows organizer’s name instead of subject (/en/article/display-shows-organizers-name-insteaSome readers

• iPad / iOS Setup Guide

  Provision Tablets First, you will need to setup your iPad to act as a meeting room display. Setup display to Never LockSome readers

• Sharing Resource Calendars (Google Workspace) with your service user

  You will need to either complete these steps for each resource calendar under your account, and elevate your service user's privileges to super-admin status, in order for Meeting Room 365 to have create / write / update permissions for calendar events (which enables instant reservations, end early, and extend meeting). Ensure you elevate privileges to Super Admin when creatinFew readers

• Use a Service User instead of Direct Sign in (Office 365)

  Use a Service User instead of Direct Sign in (Office 365) Use a single service-user account to access your displays, instead of directly signing into each display. For larger deployments, or in some environments, it may make more sense to use a single service-user account to provide Meeting Room 365 access to your meeting room displays, as opposed to signing in to each account individually. This guide will cover the steps to setting up a new display, connected to Office 365, via a SFew readers

• How to Localize your Meeting Room 365 Display

  How to Localize your Meeting Room 365 Display Customize language, time format, and other options This guide covers localization and customization options for international clients (now over 40% of our user base!) Customizing your Language i18n file customization lets you update the strings displayed on your meeting room display. You can download an example i18n file (English) (https://raw.githubuFew readers

• Adding a Background Video

  Adding a Background Video Via Youtube, or hosted mp4 This article aims to resolve frequently asked questions or simple issues around video playback, embedding, looping, and hosting. Youtube If you would like to embed youtube videos as animated backgrounds, generally the following applies: Your video must allow embedding. Also, it can be unlisted, but it cannot be private. For looping, autoplaying video, the following URL format works best: https://www.youtube.com/embed/<VFew readers

• Brightness Schedule

  We now allow all devices to adjust their brightness on a schedule, letting you configure a brightness level change (from 0, or dark, to 1, or full brightness) at any hour you choose. This can be set in the Hardware tab of your display, under Brightness Schedule.Few readers

• Hidden Settings Menu & Persistent Log out function

  Hidden Settings Menu & Persistent Log out function We've hidden two "secret" functions in the app, that shouldn't be discoverable by end-users, but might become very useful for an administrator if something goes wrong on one of your tablets. In the above example display, you'll notice that two areas are highlighted with a white box. The Area containing the Room Name The Area containing theFew readers

• Bulk Meeting Room Display Upload & Update via CSV

  Bulk Meeting Room Display Upload & Update via CSV Use the new .CSV format to upload or update your Meeting Room 365 displays in bulk Above: An example of what the .CSV template will look like, after you download itThe Problem Many tools make it easy to perform a task once or twice. And, I believe Meeting Room 365 handles smaller tenants relatively well. But, let’s say you have a dozen or more displayFew readers

• Automated Attendant - Windows Beta

  Meeting Room 365: Automated Attendant (Windows + Microsoft Teams Public Beta) This guide will cover getting started setting up a Room PC (with or without a touchscreen control device) which integrates Microsoft Teams or Google Meet. Features include: Automatically start and end Video calls Touchscreen controls to toggle camera, microphone, and volume settings Wireless scFew readers

• Securing your Displays

  By default, when setting up a meeting room display, you display is secured by its display key. This should not be shared publicly. However, there are several options for locking down displays once everything is set up, to prevent outside access. IP Filtering This option works best for clients on a single, fixed IP per building or location (which should match many corporate / office environments). Queries for display events andFew readers

• Adding Custom Scripts to Meeting Room Displays

  Adding Custom Scripts to Displays In the advanced configuration editor, you can add a custom script to your display by adding a script key, and setting the value as your custom script (the code itself, not a URL). We orFew readers

• BenQ Display Widget Setup Guide

  BenQ has created a Meeting Room 365 widget for the CP and CS series Corporate Interactive Flat Panel display (running Android). This allows you to display much of the information that would normally appear on a Meeting Room display inside the meeting room. Learn More about the BenQ Corporate IFP Use the instructions below to add the Meeting Room 365 Widget to your BenQ display. Adding the Meeting Room 365 Widget 1. Log inFew readers

• Homescreen Launcher for Amazon Tablets (Fire OS)

  Enabling a Homescreen Launcher (Fire OS) On Android Devices (including Fire OS), you can assign Meeting Room 365 v1.0.20+ as a Homescreen Launcher, which gives automatically launches the app on boot, and replaces the Homescreen of the application. This is an essential component of running Meeting Room 365 in Kiosk Mode for many users. However, Amazon has removed this option from the settings menu of their version of Android. So, we have added support for an open-source utility (LauFew readers

• Assigning Admin Rights to a Service Account in Google Workspace

  A Guide to Creating Service Users which have admin rights, so that they can be used as a service account when connecting to third-party services Sign into the Google Workspace Admin Console https://admin.google.com/ Select Admin Roles, under Account Select Super Admin, then click Assign Admins (https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/3619f51Few readers

• Cloning Display Properties (Mass Deployment / Updates)

  Applicable Scenario Consider that your company has many, many meeting room displays. Or just a few, but they're all basically the same. Except a few key details change from display to display (such as the display name, email, and associated credentials). It would be a bit of a pain to update all of these individually. So, we give you the ability to modify one display, and then clone all of that display's reusable properties to your other displays (on the same tenant domain). How it WoFew readers

• Creating a Room Without a Calendar (Breakout / Dibs room)

  What's a Breakout Room? Breakout spaces are an essential part of a creative and energized workplace. They help employees collaborate, brainstorm, and focus–and break up the monotony of the typical workday, keeping employees happy and productive. Why do I need a Display? Adding a display lets your employees know the status of the room, no matter where they are. Breakout Room statuses appear in the Room Finder, and can host a number of additional features, such as message banners, thFew readers

• Homescreen Launcher for Android Tablets

  Enabling a Homescreen Launcher (Android) On Android Devices (including Fire OS), you can assign Meeting Room 365 v1.0.20+ as a Homescreen Launcher, which gives automatically launches the app on boot, and replaces the Homescreen of the application. This is an essential component of running Meeting Room 365 in Kiosk Mode for many users. Upon upgrade or installation of Meeting Room 365, you may be prompted to assign a new homescreen launcher for your device. You can either ignore it, oFew readers

• How to Send an Additional Response each time your meeting room is booked (Office 365)

  Office 365 has an attribute you can set in Exchange Options (or via PowerShell) to send an additional message each time a room is booked, whether the request is accepted or denied. Here are a few examples: Booking Request Accepted Booking Request Denied Setup in thFew readers

• Alternate App APK Package for Android (Fully Kiosk Browser)

  Alternate Android APK Package (Fully Kiosk Browser) Screenshots To increase compatibility to a wider range of Android 4.4.4 - Android 12 devices, we have white-labelled the Fully Kiosk app, and provide licenses to paying customers, upon request. This can be used to solve persistent app crash issues, enable Samsung Knox configuration settings, and more. You can downloaFew readers

• Set Up Alerting / Uptime Monitoring for Meeting Room Displays

  In this article, we will connect the service UptimeRobot to Meeting Room 365 to enable alerting and uptime alerts for Meeting Room displays that go offline. The same instructions can be used with a variety of alternative services. We chose UptimeRobot because it is simple, free, and widely used. Using an external monitoring service has other benefits. For example, it reduces the potential for an alerting service running on our infrastructure to be impacted by thFew readers

• Meeting Room 365 Open-source E-Ink Display for the InkPlate 6 Plus

  Meeting Room 365 Inkplate Display This repository lets you create a Meeting Room 365 display to run on the Inkplate 6 Plus E-Ink Display. https://github.com/kidGodzilla/mr365-inkplate-display All the Meeting Room 365 Functionality you'd expect Packed into an open-source Inkplate display From the manufacturer: A powerful, Wi-Fi enabled ESP32 microcontroller makes this six-inchFew readers

• IP Filtering

  You can now set up IP-based Filtering for your Meeting Room displays! When enabled, sensitive data API calls (such as listing events or statuses) will only be displayed when the IP matches the whitelist IP set in your display configuration as filterIp. This can be enabled in the advanced configuration editor. How it Works Once enabled, your data will only be accessible from the IP specified (we do not support advanced ranges or IP groups, this is meant for offices with a known static IP)Few readers

• How to localize your Status Board Display

  Localizing your status board display can be accomplished through i18n localization files. These are pasted into your display configuration and override the default language strings used in the app. The process generally follows the same process as localizing a Meeting Room display, and you can read more about it here, to use as an example: How to Localize your Meeting Room 365 Display Status Board i18n File (English,Few readers

• How to Localize the Visitor Management App

  Localizing your visitor management kiosk can be accomplished through i18n localization files. These are pasted into your display configuration and override the default language strings used in the app. The process generally follows the same process as localizing a Meeting Room display, and you can read more about it here, to use as an example: How to Localize your Meeting Room 365 Display Visitor Management Kiosk i18Few readers

• Alternate APK package for Android (Wallpanel)

  Wallpanel Settings To increase compatibility to a wider range of Android 4.4.4 - Android 12 devices, we are considering the use of a custom version of the Open-source Wallpanel application. This can be used to temporarily resolve persistent app crash issues, legacy Android compatibility issues, and more. You can download the APK for Android (and seleFew readers

• Alternate Installation Methods

  Installing the Meeting Room 365 app for Android, iOS, or Amazon Fire tablets is fast and easy. You can simply search for the app in your respective region(s) App Store or Google Play, and follow the on-screen instructions. However, in many scenarios, you may wish to customize your hardware setup. This article will link you to resources to explain this in more detail. Using an MDM or Sideloading an APK If you wish to use a Mobile Device Management platform to configure your app, you may wisFew readers

• Creating Rooms & Configuring Room Lists via PowerShell

  We have created an interactive PowerShell script to help create Microsoft Office 365 Rooms and Workspaces via PowerShell, as well as organize those resources into Room Lists (to enable Room Finder). In short, it's most of the tools you need to finish setting up Resource Mailboxes (for Meeting Rooms) in Microsoft Office 365.Few readers

• Adding a Split Screen (custom) display

  You can add a split screen display as a custom display in the Meeting Room 365 Admin Portal. This allows you to create a new display key, that can be used to set up a tablet with multiple displays. To set this up, head to the New Custom Display page. Then, you will be prompted to name your display, and enter a URL. You can select either side by side (split/2x1), or stacked (split/1x2). Side by SFew readers

• Configuring Role-Based Access Control via Powershell (Microsoft 365)

  With the depreciation of the ApplicationImpersonation role in May 2024 - February 2025, we have introduced a new method of authenticating large numbers of Microsoft 365 resource mailboxes without setting up each account individually. The current recommended solution for this by Microsoft is Role-based Access Control for direct access from our application to your Microsoft 365 tenant, scoped to Resource Mailbox users. This does not require a service user account, but does require configurationFew readers