Use the General section to view or change basic information about the resource.

• * Equipment name   This name appears in the resource mailbox list in the EAC and in your organization’s address book. It can't exceed 64 characters if you change it.
  
  
• * Email address   This read-only box displays the email address for the equipment mailbox. You can change it in the Email Address section.
  
  
• Capacity   Use this box to enter the maximum number of people who can use this resource, if applicable, For example, if the equipment mailbox corresponds to a compact car, you could enter 4.
  
  

Click More options to view or change these additional properties:

• Organizational unit   This read-only box displays the organizational unit (OU) that contains the account for the equipment mailbox. You have to use Active Directory Users and Computers to move the account to a different OU.
  
  
• Mailbox database   This read-only box displays the name of the mailbox database that hosts the equipment mailbox. Use the Migration page in the EAC to move the mailbox to a different database.
  
  
• * Alias Use this box to change the alias for the equipment mailbox.
  
  
• Hide from address lists   Select this check box to prevent equipment mailbox from appearing in the address book and other address lists that are defined in your Exchange organization. After you select this check box, users can still send booking messages to the equipment mailbox by using the email address.
  
  
• Department   Use this box to specify a department name that the resource is associated with. You can use this property to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups and address lists.
  
  
• Company   Use this box to specify a company that the resource is associated with. Like the Department property, you can use this property to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups and address lists.
  
  
• Address book policy   Use this option to specify an address book policy (ABP) for the resource. ABPs contain a global address list (GAL), an offline address book (OAB), a room list, and a set of address lists. To learn more, see Address Book Policies.
  
  In the drop-down list, select the policy that you want associated with this mailbox.
  
  
• Custom attributes   This section displays the custom attributes defined for the equipment mailbox. To specify custom attribute values, click Edit . You can specify up to 15 custom attributes for the recipient.
  
  

Use this section to view or change how the equipment mailbox handles reservation requests and to define who can accept or decline booking requests if it isn’t done automatically.

• Booking requests   Select one of the following options to handle booking requests.
  
  
  • Accept or decline booking requests automatically   A valid meeting request automatically reserves the resource. If there's a scheduling conflict with an existing reservation, or if the booking request violates the scheduling limits of the resource, for example, the reservation duration is too long, the meeting request is automatically declined.
    
    
  • Select delegates who can accept or decline booking requests   Resource delegates are responsible for accepting or declining meeting requests that are sent to the equipment mailbox. If you assign more than one resource delegate, only one of them has to act on a specific meeting request.
    
    
• Delegates   If you selected the option requiring that booking requests be sent to delegates, the specified delegates are listed. Click Add or Remove to add or remove delegates from this list.
  
  

Use the Booking Options section to view or change the settings for the booking policy that defines when the resource can be scheduled, how long it can be reserved, and how far in advance it can be reserved.

• Allow repeating meetings   This setting allows or prevents repeating meetings for the resource. By default, this setting is enabled, so repeating meetings are allowed.
  
  
• Allow scheduling only during working hours   This setting accepts or declines meeting requests that aren't during the working hours defined for the resource. By default, this setting is disabled, so meeting requests are allowed outside the working hours.By default, working hours are 8:00 A.M. to 5:00 P.M. Monday through Friday. You can configure the working hours of the equipment mailbox in the Appearance section on the Calendar page.
  
  
• Always decline if the end date is beyond this limit   This setting controls the behavior of repeating meetings that extend beyond the date specified by the maximum booking lead time setting.
  
  
  • If you enable this setting, a repeating booking request is automatically declined if the bookings start on or before the date specified by the value in the Maximum booking lead time box, and they extend beyond the specified date. This is the default setting.
    
    
  • If you disable this setting, a repeating booking request is automatically accepted if the booking requests start on or before the date specified by the value in the Maximum booking lead time box, and they extend beyond the specified date. However, the number of bookings is reduced so bookings won’t occur after the specified date.
    
    
• Maximum booking lead time (days)   This setting specifies the maximum number of days in advance that the resource can be booked. Valid input is an integer between 0 and 1080. The default value is 180 days.
  
  
• Maximum duration (hours)   This setting specifies the maximum duration that the resource can be reserved in a booking request. The default value is 24 hours.
  
  For repeating booking requests, the maximum booking duration applies to the length of each instance of the repeating booking request.
  
  

There is also a box on this page that you can use to write a message that will be sent to users who send meeting requests to reserve the resource.

Use the Contact Information section to view or change the contact information for the resource. The information on this page is displayed in the address book.

Tip:
You can use the State/Province box to create recipient conditions for dynamic distribution groups, email address policies, or address lists.

Use the Email Address section to view or change the email addresses associated with the equipment mailbox. This includes the mailbox’s primary SMTP address and any associated proxy addresses. The primary SMTP address (also known as the reply address) is displayed in bold text in the address list, with the uppercase SMTP value in the Type column.

• Add    Click Add to add a new email address for this mailbox. Select one of following address types:
  
  
  • SMTP   This is the default address type. Click this button and then type the new SMTP address in the * Email address box.
    
    
  • EUM   An EUM (Exchange Unified Messaging) address is used by the Microsoft Exchange Unified Messaging service to locate UM-enabled recipients within an Exchange organization. EUM addresses consist of the extension number and the UM dial plan for the UM-enabled user. Click this button and type the extension number in the Address/Extension box. Then click Browse and select a dial plan for the mailbox.
    
    
  • Custom address type   Click this button and type one of the supported non-SMTP email address types in the * Email address box.
    
    

    Note:
    With the exception of X.400 addresses, Exchange doesn't validate custom addresses for correct formatting. You must make sure that the custom address you specify complies with the format requirements for that address type.

  Note:
  When you add a new email address, you have the option to make it the primary SMTP address.

  
  
  
• Automatically update email addresses based on the email address policy applied to this recipient   Select this check box to have the recipient's email addresses automatically updated based on changes made to email address policies in your organization.
  
  

Use the MailTip section to add a MailTip to alert users of potential issues before they send a booking request to the equipment mailbox. A MailTip is text that’s displayed in the InfoBar when this recipient is added to the To, Cc, or Bcc lines of a new email message.

Note:
MailTips can include HTML tags, but scripts aren't allowed. The length of a custom MailTip can't exceed 175 displayed characters. HTML tags aren't counted in the limit.