Microsoft Places Management web portal

Hi All,

Almost a Month ago, Microsoft has released the Messace Center Information MC1122163 about the Microsoft Places Management web portal.

Now i finally found time to write a Blog Article about it.

I have already blogged about How to Enable Places. You will need the latest MicrosoftPlaces PowerShell Module.

To manage Places you need the Entra Role “Global Administrator” or “Exchange Administrator”.

And there is now a new Entra ID Role “Places Administrator”.

Places Space Management

You can open the Places Space Management directly by this Link: Places Space Management

Or as a user in the Places Webinterace and select “Admin” in the dropdown.

You can create Buildings, Floors and Sections

You can edit Rooms, Desks and Workspaces.

Assign RoomMailboxes to Buildings, Floors and Sections.

Please note: On synchronized Objects from Active Directory, Properties like Displayname, Streetaddress, Postal Code, City comes from Active Directory and has to be edited there.

If you select a Building on the left, you can see all the Floors, Sections and Rooms/Desks/Workspaces that are assigned to that Building

For Desks and Workspaces you can also define the Mode.

After all Objects have been assigned to a Building there are no more “Unparented space” Objects left.

Exchange RBAC in Exchange Admin Center

In the Message Center Post MC1108847 Microsoft has annouced RBAC Roles in Exchange.

In Exchange Admin Center > Roles > Admin Roles > Create a new Role Group

Add the “PlacesBuildingManagement” and “PlacesDeskManagement” Roles

Assign a User or Group

Review Screen

Exchange RBAC with PowerShell

You can create the RBAC Role also with PowerShell.

List Management Roles for Places

Connect-ExchangeOnline -ShowBanner:$false
# Get Management Role
Get-ManagementRole | where {$_.Name -match "Places"}

Add a new Role Group with the two Places Roles

# New RoleGroup
New-RoleGroup -Name '_CustomPSPlace' -Roles "PlacesBuildingManagement", "PlacesDeskManagement" -Description "RBAC for Microsoft Places Administration"

Assign a Member to the Admin Role

# Add RoleGroupMember
Add-RoleGroupMember -Identity "_CustomPSPlace" -Member "m.muster@icewolf.ch"

Places Finder / Room Finder

When you open “Room Finder” in Outlook Classic you see a whole new Interface.

You can select Building

Select Floor

Select Capacity

Select Features

Select Type (Room / Desk)

New Outlook

In New Outlook, when you want to book a Desk, this is done in the “New Event” dropdown

Now you can reserve the Desk

If you create a new Event > click on “Browse all rooms” to show “Room Finder” that is called “Places finder” here 😊

Summary

You probably know that i am a PowerShell guy. But i have to Admit, that it is very confortable to manage the Buildings, Floors, Sections, Rooms, Desks, Workspaces in the Places web management portal.

Regards
Andres Bohren