Get room lists by using EWS in Exchange

Learn how to get a list of all the room lists in your organization or a single room list from an Exchange server by using the EWS Managed API or EWS.

You can use the EWS Managed API or EWS to get information about rooms and how the rooms are grouped in your organization. Room lists don't exist by default; your administrator needs to create and organize them. Typically, they're organized by location or department, as shown in the following example.

Contoso room list names and email addresses

Each room in a room list has a name and email address associated with it.

Contoso room names and email addresses

You can get a list that contains all room lists by using either the ExchangeService.GetRoomLists EWS Managed API method or the GetRoomLists EWS operation.

You can retrieve a single room list that contains all the rooms for a location or department by supplying its email address by using the GetRooms EWS Managed API method or the GetRooms EWS operation. When you have a collection of rooms associated with a room list, you can then search through the collection to identify the room or rooms you want, either by email address, or by looking for key words in the name, such as "AV", or "Lab".

Get all room lists by using the EWS Managed API

The following example shows how to get a list that contains all the room lists in your organization by using the GetRoomLists method.

This example assumes that you have authenticated to an Exchange server and have acquired an ExchangeService object named service.

// Return all the room lists in the organization.
// This method call results in a GetRoomLists call to EWS.
EmailAddressCollection myRoomLists = service.GetRoomLists();
// Display the room lists.
foreach (EmailAddress address in myRoomLists)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Email Address: {0} Mailbox Type: {1}", address.Address, address.MailboxType);
}

Get all room lists by using EWS

The following example shows how to get a collection of all your organization's RoomLists by using the GetRoomLists operation. This is also the XML request that the EWS Managed API sends when you use the EWS Managed API to get all room lists.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" 
               xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" xmlns:soap="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Header>
    <t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010" />
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <m:GetRoomLists />
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

The server responds to the GetRoomLists request with a GetRoomListsResponse message that contains the room lists for your organization.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header>
    <h:ServerVersionInfo MajorVersion="15" MinorVersion="0" MajorBuildNumber="868" MinorBuildNumber="8" Version="V2_9" 
                         xmlns:h="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
                         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
                         xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <m:GetRoomListsResponse ResponseClass="Success" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" 
                            xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
      <m:ResponseCode>NoError</m:ResponseCode>
      <m:RoomLists>
        <t:Address>
          <t:Name>Contoso Building 1 Room List</t:Name>
          <t:EmailAddress>bldg1rooms@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
          <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
          <t:MailboxType>PublicDL</t:MailboxType>
        </t:Address>
        <t:Address>
          <t:Name>Contoso Building 2 Room List</t:Name>
          <t:EmailAddress>bldg2rooms@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
          <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
          <t:MailboxType>PublicDL</t:MailboxType>
        </t:Address>
        <t:Address>
          <t:Name>Contoso Building 3 Room List</t:Name>
          <t:EmailAddress>bldg3rooms@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
          <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
          <t:MailboxType>PublicDL</t:MailboxType>
        </t:Address>
      </m:RoomLists>
    </m:GetRoomListsResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

Get all the rooms in a room list by using the EWS Managed API

The following example shows how to get a collection of rooms in a room list by using the GetRooms method.

EmailAddress myRoomList = "bldg3rooms@contoso.com";
// This method call results in a GetRooms call to EWS.
System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection<EmailAddress> myRoomAddresses = service.GetRooms(myRoomList);
// Display the individual rooms.
foreach (EmailAddress address in myRoomAddresses)
{
    Console.WriteLine("Email Address: {0}", address.Address);
}

Get all the rooms in a room list by using EWS

The following example shows how to get a list of rooms in a RoomList by using the GetRooms operation. This is also the XML request that the EWS Managed API sends when you use the EWS Managed API to get all the rooms in a room list.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<soap:Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
               xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" 
               xmlns:t="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
               xmlns:soap="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <soap:Header>
    <t:RequestServerVersion Version="Exchange2010" />
  </soap:Header>
  <soap:Body>
    <m:GetRooms>
      <m:RoomList>
        <t:EmailAddress>bldg3rooms@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
      </m:RoomList>
    </m:GetRooms>
  </soap:Body>
</soap:Envelope>

The server responds to the GetRooms request with a GetRoomsResponse message that contains the rooms in the room list.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="https://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <s:Header>
    <h:ServerVersionInfo MajorVersion="15" MinorVersion="0" MajorBuildNumber="873" MinorBuildNumber="9" 
                         Version="V2_9" xmlns:h="http://scemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
                         xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types" 
                         xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3org/2001/XMLSchema" 
                         xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" />
  </s:Header>
  <s:Body xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <m:GetRoomsResponse ResponseClass="Success" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/messages" 
                        xmlns:t="http://scemas.microsoft.com/exchange/services/2006/types">
      <m:ResponseCode>NoError</m:ResponseCode>
      <m:Rooms>
        <t:Room>
          <t:Id>
            <t:Name>Conf Room 3/101 (16) AV</t:Name>
            <t:EmailAddress>cf3101@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
            <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
            <t:MailboxType>Mailbox</t:MailboxType>
          </t:Id>
        </t:Room>
        <t:Room>
          <t:Id>
            <t:Name>Conf Room 3/102 (8) AV</t:Name>
            <t:EmailAddress>cf3102@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
            <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
            <t:MailboxType>Mailbox</t:MailboxType>
          </t:Id>
        </t:Room>
        <t:Room>
          <t:Id>
            <t:Name>Conf Room 3/103 (14) AV RoundTable</t:Name>
            <t:EmailAddress>cf3103@contoso.com</t:EmailAddress>
            <t:RoutingType>SMTP</t:RoutingType>
            <t:MailboxType>Mailbox</t:MailboxType>
          </t:Id>
        </t:Room>
      </m:Rooms>
    </m:GetRoomsResponse>
  </s:Body>
</s:Envelope>

See also

• Calendars and EWS in Exchange

• Get free/busy information by using EWS in Exchange

• Create and Manage Room Mailboxes