We are pleased to announce that Door Tablet now integrates directly with MDaemon.
This integration bridges the gap between your digital MDaemon calendars and your physical office space. You can display real-time meeting information on Door Tablet meeting room panels outside your rooms and manage bookings more efficiently across your organisation.
Here is what this integration means for your workplace and how it functions.
What is MDaemon?
MDaemon is a widely used messaging and collaboration server that provides secure email, calendar, and contact management for businesses. It is designed as a reliable alternative to complex mail servers, offering organisations flexible control over their communications infrastructure, whether hosted in the cloud or managed on-premise. For many companies, MDaemon serves as the central hub for all daily scheduling and correspondence.
How the Integration Works
The connection between Door Tablet and MDaemon is designed to be seamless and bi-directional.
- Real-Time Synchronization: The system reads your MDaemon calendars to display availability on the panels outside your meeting rooms. If you book a room via your desktop email client, the display outside that room updates instantly to show it is busy.
- Two-Way Communication: Interaction is not limited to the desktop. If a user books a room directly from the Door Tablet touchscreen, that booking is immediately written back to the MDaemon calendar, ensuring no one else can book that slot remotely.
- Room Filtering: You can configure the system to recognise specific keywords in your calendar folders (such as “Meeting Room” or “Huddle”). This makes it easy to filter and display availability for the correct spaces without cluttering the system with irrelevant data.
“This integration is designed to be secure, efficient, and easy to manage—whether you're running a small office or a large enterprise.”
- Brad Wyro, MDaemon
Deployment That Fits Your Infrastructure
We understand that MDaemon users value control over their environment. We have ensured this integration works regardless of how you host your server.
- Cloud-Based: If your MDaemon server is in the cloud, you can use Door Tablet CONNECT. This creates a secure bridge to your calendars without requiring complex local installation.
- On-Premise: For organisations that keep their data in-house, you can install the Door Tablet server on local hardware. This allows it to connect directly to your on-premise MDaemon server, maintaining your preferred security protocols.
Practical Benefits for the Office
Beyond the technical synchronisation, this integration provides specific tools to solve common meeting room coordination problems.
- Eliminate Double Bookings: Since the sync occurs in real-time, there is no lag between a booking being made and the room status updating. This prevents two people from booking the same space at the same time.
- Ad-Hoc Booking: Staff can walk up to an available room and book it instantly from the touch panel.
- Better Utilisation: You can enable features like "Check-in" or "Release," where a room is automatically freed up if the meeting host does not arrive within a set time. This ensures spaces aren't wasted by abandoned meetings.
Getting Started
This integration is available now and is designed to be straightforward to set up.
Contact us to discuss how to enable the MDaemon integration for your office.