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Microsoft 365 desk booking

Microsoft 365 desk booking system

RoamHub360 adds desk booking, hot desking and meeting room booking to your existing Microsoft 365 tenant — inside Teams and Outlook, secured by Entra ID single sign-on.

In short

RoamHub360 is a Microsoft 365 desk booking system that runs inside your existing Office 365 tenant. Staff book desks, hot desks and meeting rooms from Microsoft Teams, Outlook, the web or mobile, signing in with Entra ID single sign-on. Administrators get interactive floor maps, booking policies and utilisation analytics — without a separate identity system.

Overview

A desk booking system for Office 365, not another silo

Most desk booking tools ask you to stand up a second user directory, invite everyone in again and manage a separate set of accounts. RoamHub360 takes the opposite approach. It is built to live inside the Microsoft 365 environment your organisation already runs, so identity, calendars and collaboration stay in one place.

That means people sign in with the Microsoft credentials they use every day, book a desk or room from the tools they already have open, and see those bookings in their Outlook calendar. For IT, there is no new password store to secure and no duplicate directory to keep in sync — access is governed by the same Entra ID groups and Conditional Access policies you already maintain.

How it works

How RoamHub360 works inside Microsoft 365

A short, standard path from connecting your tenant to people booking desks from Teams.

1. Connect your Microsoft 365 tenant
RoamHub360 is registered as an application in your Entra ID (Azure AD) tenant with the permissions it needs. There is no new user directory — your existing users and groups are the source of truth.
2. Enable Entra ID single sign-on
Staff authenticate with their normal Microsoft 365 sign-in, including any MFA and Conditional Access policies you enforce. Access to sites, floors and features is mapped to your existing security groups.
3. Load your floors and spaces
We import or draw interactive floor plans for each site and mark desks, hot desks, meeting rooms and other bookable spaces. Booking policies — windows, team seating rules, check-in — are configured to match how you work.
4. People book from Teams, Outlook, web or mobile
Employees open RoamHub360 in Microsoft Teams, on the web or on their phone, choose a desk or room on the map and confirm. The booking appears in their Outlook calendar, and room bookings behave like the calendar events people already understand.
5. Admins review utilisation
Occupancy and utilisation reporting shows how spaces are actually used across sites, so you can right-size floors, spot under-used areas and plan hybrid capacity with real data.
Microsoft-native

Where RoamHub360 plugs into your Microsoft stack

Each part of the platform maps to a Microsoft service you already run.

Microsoft 365 tenant

Runs against your existing tenant — no duplicate data, no parallel account lifecycle to manage.

Microsoft Teams

Book a desk or room from inside Teams — a hot desk booking system in the place your team already works.

Outlook calendar

Desk and room bookings sync to Outlook, so people see where they are sitting alongside their meetings.

Entra ID (Azure AD)

Users, groups and access come straight from Entra ID, with your MFA and Conditional Access applied.

Single sign-on

One Microsoft login for everything — no new passwords for staff, no new directory for IT.

Utilisation analytics

Occupancy reporting layered on top of Microsoft data helps you plan hybrid capacity with evidence.

Comparison

Microsoft 365 native options vs RoamHub360

Microsoft 365 covers room mailboxes and some hybrid features. Here is where a dedicated desk booking system adds value.

Microsoft 365 native options vs RoamHub360
CapabilityMicrosoft 365 nativeRoamHub360 on Microsoft 365
Meeting room bookingYes — Outlook / Exchange room mailboxesYes, plus visual room selection and rules
Individual desk bookingNot in standard plansYes — full desk booking
Hot desking rulesLimitedConfigurable — scheduled, first-come, team-based
Interactive floor mapsNoYes — pick a desk on a live map
Check-in / no-show handlingNoYes — check-in and auto-release
Utilisation analyticsBasic room usageCross-site desk & room utilisation reporting
Entra ID SSOYesYes — same identity, same policies
Books from inside TeamsPartialYes — desks and rooms in Teams

Microsoft continues to expand hybrid-work features such as Microsoft Places; you can read Microsoft's own documentation on room and workspace mailboxes at Microsoft Learn. RoamHub360 complements those capabilities with a purpose-built desk booking experience and analytics.

Why it matters

Why a Microsoft-native desk booking system is easier to run

Adoption is the hardest part of any workplace tool. When booking a desk happens in Microsoft Teams, next to the chats and meetings people already have open, they actually use it — there is no new app to remember and no extra login. That is the practical advantage of a desk booking system for Office 365 tenants over a standalone product.

For IT and security teams, the win is governance. Because RoamHub360 relies on Entra ID, every access decision inherits your existing identity controls — MFA, Conditional Access, group membership and joiner-mover-leaver processes. When someone leaves and their Microsoft account is disabled, their desk booking access goes with it. No orphaned accounts, no separate offboarding step.

What you gain

  • One Microsoft login for booking, no new passwords
  • Booking inside Teams and Outlook drives real adoption
  • Centralised identity and access via Entra ID
  • Desk-level detail Microsoft 365 does not provide natively
  • Utilisation data to plan hybrid office capacity

What to plan for

  • An Entra ID app registration and admin consent are required
  • Floor plans need to be supplied or drawn during setup
  • Booking policies should be agreed before go-live
  • A named admin is needed to manage sites and reports
FAQ

Microsoft 365 desk booking — common questions

Microsoft 365 can book meeting rooms natively through Outlook and Exchange room mailboxes, and Microsoft Places adds some hybrid-work features. However, there is no full desk booking system with interactive floor maps, hot desking rules and utilisation analytics built into standard Microsoft 365 plans. RoamHub360 adds that layer on top of your existing tenant.

No. RoamHub360 uses Entra ID (Azure AD) single sign-on, so employees sign in with the same Microsoft 365 credentials they already use. There are no new passwords to manage and access is controlled centrally through your existing groups and policies.

Yes. RoamHub360 is designed to work inside Microsoft Teams so staff can book a desk or meeting room without leaving the app they already use to collaborate. Bookings also appear in Outlook calendars.

Yes. RoamHub360 supports hot desking with configurable rules — first-come, scheduled or team-based desks — and lets people book from Teams, Outlook, the web or mobile. Administrators can set booking windows, check-in requirements and team seating policies.

Because RoamHub360 deploys into your existing Microsoft 365 tenant and uses Entra ID for identity, there is no separate user directory to build. Deployment focuses on connecting the tenant, loading floor plans and configuring booking policies, so most single-site rollouts are measured in days rather than months.

See RoamHub360 in your Microsoft 365 tenant

Book a walkthrough and we'll show desk and room booking inside Teams and Outlook, Entra ID sign-on and the admin dashboard — in an environment like yours.