Microsoft 365 Resources
The Microsoft 365 calendar integration, helps keep the Microsoft 365 resource calendars synced with YAROOMS.
A common use case is syncing all the room bookings from YAROOMS to Microsoft 365 resources to consume those events in other software that already supports Microsoft 365 resources.
After activating this integration, YAROOMS will have the ability to write event data to your Microsoft 365 resources. Mapping the spaces in YAROOMS to resources in Microsoft 365 will allow us to keep the calendars in sync. So the steps to a successful setup are:
Setup the Microsoft 365 integration
Map the resources in M365 to spaces in YAROOMS
We're keeping Microsoft 365 resources in sync
In the Azure Portal go to Azure Active Directory → App registrations and press the "+ New registration" button.
Give the app a name, leave the Redirect URI empty and press Register. You should then be redirected to the app details page.
From the app details page you will need to extract the following details which are needed later in the setup in YAROOMS:
Application (client) ID → we'll call this Client ID.
Directory (tenant) ID → we'll call this Tenant ID.
Go to "Certificates & secrets" in the left menu and press "New client secret". Give it an expiration date far in the future (for as long as you need the integration to work) and press "Generate". Extract the generated secret to use it later, we'll call it Client secret.
Go to "API permissions" in the left menu and configure the new permissions as per this table:
After adding the permissions press the "Grant admin consent for " button above the permissions table.
In your YAROOMS account go to Manage → Integrations and choose the "Office 365 Calendar" integration. Switch the "Integration active" field to YES and fill in the details obtained at previous steps in the Azure portal:
Tenant ID
Client ID
Client secret
Once the Microsoft 365 integration settings are saved, a new Resource Mapping tab will appear (if your company is using the YAROOMS spaces module).
By default, Microsoft 365 sync is not enabled. Activate it by pressing “Yes”.
If the “Suppress notification” option is activated, we won’t be sending notifications from YAROOMS when a user books a space that has a mapped resource to it.
Conflict resolution settings determine which booking have a priority:
YAROOMS priority - In case of a booking conflict between YAROOMS and Outlook resources, the YAROOMS booking will override the Outlook booking. This means that the Outlook booking will be deleted and replaced with the YAROOMS booking.
Outlook priority - In case of a booking conflict between YAROOMS and Outlook resources, the Outlook booking will override the YAROOMS booking. This means that the YAROOMS booking will be deleted and replaced with the Outlook booking.
To map Microsoft 365 (external) resources to YAROOMS, select an external resource from the drop-down list, and assign a YAROOMS space to it. To keep everything in sync, a connection between the two must be established. It can be done in 2 ways:
Automatically, without user input.
Manually, by clicking the “+Connect” button. The appearance of the “Refresh” button signalizes a successful connection.
Attendees
When a meeting with attendees is created in Outlook, the YAROOMS booking will not send invitations.
When a meeting with attendees is created in YAROOMS, it will be synced to Outlook (including the attendees).
Recurrent meetings
When a meeting with attendees is created in YAROOMS, it will be synced to Outlook (including the attendees).