php-ews exchange 2007 room calendar events

Question

We're on exchange 2007 and I'm using php-ews and I want to get a list of all the bookings for a room resource. By room resource, I mean the rooms button in outlook when creating a meeting invite.

The code I have so far returns items from my calendar but I need calendar from 'Conference room A'. Anyone have done this?

$host = 'mailhost';
$username = 'xxxx';
$password = 'xxxx';
$mail = 'xxxx';
$startDateEvent = "2013-01-14T09:00:00";
$endDateEvent = "2013-09-20T17:00:00";

$ews = new ExchangeWebServices($host, $username, $password);
$request = new EWSType_FindItemType();
$request->Traversal = EWSType_FolderQueryTraversalType::SHALLOW;

$request->CalendarView->StartDate = $startDateEvent; 
$request->CalendarView->EndDate = $endDateEvent; 
$request->CalendarView->MaxEntriesReturned = 100;
$request->CalendarView->MaxEntriesReturnedSpecified = true;
$request->ItemShape->BaseShape = EWSType_DefaultShapeNamesType::ALL_PROPERTIES;

$request->ParentFolderIds->DistinguishedFolderId->Id = EWSType_DistinguishedFolderIdNameType::CALENDAR;   
$request->ParentFolderIds->DistinguishedFolderId->Mailbox->EmailAddress = $mail;
$response = $ews->FindItem($request);
echo '<pre>'.print_r($response, true).'</pre>';

David Robilliard David Robilliard · Accepted Answer · 2015-12-17T08:13:44

I'm even later to the game. But The way I solved this was to create an exchange account after the name of the room, for instance boardroom@.

Then I got people to copy in boardroom@ whenever they sent out a meeting request. My scripts simply interrogate boardroom@'s calendar. Everyone at the organisation has a copy of boardroom's calendar in read-only mode that they can look at to see all the meetings that week.

My software was for a display sign outside the room that showed whether the room was in use or not based upon this calendar.

php-ews exchange 2007 room calendar events

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