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School classroom booking system using outlook?

Asked by: alumwell

Hello,
We are currently attempting to integrate a classroom booking system. The plan is to setup an outlook calendar for each room so that a teacher can see the room and make a booking. Ideally we would like to grab all of the room calendars and display them on a single page in sharepoint. Also we would like to have the calendars displayed so that teachers can compare available times, e.g. display all the calendars for each room on just a monday.

We have tried the "Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Application Template: Room and Equipment Reservations" in sharepoint, however, it does not meet our requirements.

Can anyone advice the best method to achieve this?

We are running exchange 2007, outlook 2007 & sharepoint 2007.

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2009-10-09 at 07:07:02ID24799261
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outlook 2007

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by: sgsm81Posted on 2009-10-09 at 08:29:22ID: 25535997

We have a very basic system for booking our meeting rooms which comprises of each room havina  public calendars to which specific users have permissions; through this and a copy of outlook the user can add meetings/bookings to the calendars of any/all the rooms and also see the scheduled bookings and availabilities,

 

by: MsShadowPosted on 2009-10-10 at 05:01:58ID: 25541950

I would create the calendars in SharePoint so that people without Outlook can see them and link the calendars to Outlook. Then people can easily check meeting rooms in their outlook.

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