Integrate Office 365 Calendars

Mira Connect can show a room's calendar and dial meetings directly from the calendar items.

Microsoft’s Office 365 is a cloud-based collaboration service offering that provides web- and PC-based access to popular productivity applications including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Email and Calendaring with Outlook. More importantly for applications with Mira Connect, Microsoft/Office 365 provides calendar services for scheduling meetings and room resources.

An organization using Office 365 will have user accounts for each of their employees allowing users access to the Office365 applications including calendar and email accounts. There will be one or more administrators who create new accounts and manage existing accounts.

In addition to user accounts, Microsoft/Office 365 supports resource accounts that are used for scheduling and managing rooms or equipment (such as projectors that can be ‘checked-out’, used, and returned). Typically, room resource accounts are assigned to each of the meeting rooms so those rooms can be scheduled to allow more efficient use of conference rooms and to prevent room scheduling conflicts. Through access to the room’s calendar, a Mira Connect device in the room receives information about meetings from the calendar invitation and presents dial-in numbers to users in the room, making it easy for users to dial calls with one press of a button.

The Office 365 cloud and Mira Portal cloud communicate securely to provide meeting information to Mira Connect in the room.

For a summary of how to add a calendar to Mira Connect, see our summary of the steps.