Microsoft Places: Creating bookable resources

This demo shows how to add bookable resources in Microsoft Places—desks, desk pools, and meeting rooms—so a building becomes genuinely useful (and not just a rectangle with feelings). After calling out the prerequisites at aka.ms/PlacesRequirements, it walks through connecting to Microsoft Places and Microsoft Exchange Online with Connect-MicrosoftPlaces and Connect-ExchangeOnline, then using Get-PlaceV3 to grab the place IDs for your building, floors, and sections. From there, it demos creating an individual desk with New-Place, pairing it to a mailbox with New-Mailbox and Set-Mailbox, and linking everything back to Places with Set-PlaceV3—plus adding metadata like wheelchair accessibility and handy desk features (monitor, docking station, height-adjustable desk). It then builds a desk pool (shared desks) in Exchange Online, sets time zone, working hours, and capacity using Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration and Set-CalendarProcessing, and publishes it as a desk booking experience in Places with Set-PlaceV3 (capacity: 10 seats). Finally, it shows adding a conference room the same way—using a recommended configuration for a Teams Room—and closes with onboarding desk peripherals for ad hoc reservations, occupancy notifications, and extra admin insights (see aka.ms/placesdeployment).

We produced this as a tight, low-noise demo built for people who want the steps, not the chaos. In preproduction, we nailed the goals, messaging, and exact click-and-command path. In production, we captured clean screens, recorded professional voiceover, and added music that keeps the pace moving. In post, we shaped it into a brisk, confident walkthrough—clear callouts, clean pacing, and just enough structure that viewers can follow along once and then go do it.