Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell

Hello,

We previously saw how to send an email with Exchange Web Services, now we’ll see how to send a meeting request with EWS and PowerShell.

I’m not aware of another way to create meeting request in PowerShell, so, this is not a pure learning experience now.

First, we need to connect to Exchange Web Services, just like we did for sending an email:

Import-Module -Name 'C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchangeWeb Services2.2Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.dll'
$Credential = Get-Credential
$exchService = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.ExchangeService
$exchService.Credentials = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.WebCredentials -ArgumentList $Credential.UserName, $Credential.GetNetworkCredential().Password
$exchService.AutodiscoverUrl($Credential.UserName, {$true})

Just like for email, you need an account with a mailbox.

Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell

Now we’ve imported the dll and we’re connected, we can create an ‘appointment’ object, and use it to build a request meeting:

$Start = Get-Date
$MeetingRequest = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.appointment -ArgumentList $exchService
$MeetingRequest.Subject = 'Appointment subject'
$MeetingRequest.Body = 'This is the body of the request meeting'
$MeetingRequest.RequiredAttendees.Add('Anakin.Skywalker@itfordummies.net') | Out-Null
$MeetingRequest.Start = $Start
$MeetingRequest.End = $MeetingRequest.Start.AddMinutes(30)
$MeetingRequest.Location = 'Location of the meeting'
$MeetingRequest.ReminderDueBy = Get-Date
$MeetingRequest.IsResponseRequested = $false
$MeetingRequest.Save([Microsoft.Exchange.WebServices.Data.SendInvitationsMode]::SendToAllAndSaveCopy)

Just like email, we got some options about saving and sending:

Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell – Saving Options

Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell – Saving Overloads

There is a lot of possible ways to handle request meeting saving.

And here is the created meeting request:

Meeting Request Exchange Web Services PowerShell – Meeting Request

This is just an example of what we can do with Exchange Web Services, there is plenty of interesting things we can do with it.