Room Finder in Outlook doesn't display
any conference rooms when a user
creates a meeting
Article + 05/31/2022 + Applies to: Exchange Online, Office 2016, Office 2013
Problem
When a user creates a new meeting in Microsoft Outlook, no conference rooms are listed
in the Choose an available room box in the Room Finder, or some conference rooms are
listed and other conference rooms are missing.
This issue may occur if the user doesn't select a room list. A room list must be selected
before available rooms are displayed in the Room Finder. This issue may also occur if the
conference room is hidden from the Global Address List (GAL).
Solution
To display available rooms, select a room list from the Show a room list box. If a room list
is selected and the room is still not visible, verify that the room is visible in the GAL.
More information
To create a room list and to add existing rooms to the room list, follow these steps:
1. Do one of the following
* In on-premises Exchange Server or in an Exchange hybrid environment, open
the Exchange Management Shell.
* In Exchange Online, connect to Exchange Online by using remote PowerShell
For more information, see Connect to Exchange Online PowerShell.
2. Run the following command to create a room list:
PowerShellNew-DistributionGroup -RoomList -Menbers $Menbers
3. Run the following command to add existing rooms to the room list:
PowerShell
Add-DistributionGroupMember -Member
To verify that a room is visible in the GAL, run the following command and verify that
HiddenFromAddressListsEnabled is set to false:
PowerShell
Get-Mailbox
For more information, see Create a room list distribution group and Create and manage
room mailboxes.
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