Use PowerShell to Update Room Calendar Working Hours

I recently had a request to update a bunch of Meeting Room calendars whose Working Hours were set to the wrong time zone, which was causing issues when users tried to view or book appointments in those rooms. Now, I know I could do this by logging into each room manually, but where’s the fun in that? 😉

To update all of the rooms at once, I first needed to figure out how to get the mailboxes I needed, and then get their mailbox calendar configuration. You can do this by using Get-Mailbox with some filters to find the mailboxes with calendars that you want to change – in this case, I knew that they were all Room Mailboxes, and they all began with “HKG-“. You can structure your queries to filter by whatever you want, really – just do a Get-Mailbox username | FL to find out the name of the attributes that you can use in your query. In this case, the attributes I needed were called DisplayName and RecipientTypeDetails – once I had the mailboxes, the next step is to pipe it out to a Get-MailboxCalenadarConfiguration, so I could see what they were set to.

This is what the script looks like:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.DisplayName -match “HKG-” -and $_.RecipientTypeDetails -match “RoomMailbox”} | Get-MailboxCalendarConfiguration | FT -AutoSize

It should go without saying, but make sure you’re connected to Exchange Online before you run this command!

And this was the result:

You can see from the screenshot above that all but one of the rooms was on Central Standard Time, and only one of them was in the correct time zone; to fix it, I use the first part of my script (the Get-Mailbox portion), and then pipe the results out to a Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration, along with the attributes I want to change. For this scenario, it was WorkingHoursTimeZone, WorkingHoursStartTime, and WorkingHoursEndTime, like so:

Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited | Where {$_.DisplayName -match “HKG-” -and $_.RecipientTypeDetails -match “RoomMailbox”} | Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration -WorkingHoursTimeZone “China Standard Time” -WorkingHoursStartTime 09:00:00 -WorkingHoursEndTime 18:00:00

Much better now!

If you only need to do this for a single user, use the following command in PowerShell:

Set-MailboxCalendarConfiguration adm-jdahl -WorkingHoursTimeZone “Pacific Standard Time” -WorkingHoursStartTime 09:00:00 -WorkingHoursEndTime 18:00:00

And then to view the results:

Get-MailboxCalendarConfiguration adm-jdahl | ft -AutoSize

Hope this helps someone learn a new way to do something cool in PowerShell!