Our YWCA is a not-for-profit organisation based in Canberra, Australia delivering community services in Child Care, Youth, Family and Housing. We have 25+ service locations within our territory with multiple resources to be managed - rooms, equipment etc - and required for meetings, presentations, training sessions etc. We want to be able to book, for example, a room and portable projector with screen for a specified day in the future BUT we need to allow the local manager(s) where the room is located to be (a) informed when a booking is made and (b) allowed to accept or reject the booking. There may be a temporary booking recorded/notified but the notification of an accepted can only be issued by the delegate(s) who have been notified of the request for booking. If the resource has a confirmed booking already then the meeting request can be rejected immediately with the appropriate message. We are having difficulty in EMS setting the cmdlet (a) having the delegates receive the email with the booking request so that they can (a) accept, or, (b) reject the booking. It would appear that we cannot set this up in EMC or we cannot see where it might be done in EMC. Is there anyone who can assist us. Our timezone is GMT + 11 hours. John Fletcher

Hi, I think you set it with Set-MailboxCalendarSettings cmdlet in PS. Try below. Get-Mailbox -id <Room or Equipment ID> | Set-MailboxCalendarSettings -AllBookInPolicy $false -AllRequestInPolicy $true -ResourceDelegates <Local Manager's ID> Above cmdlet will set the resource to have response from resource delegates. Since the AutomateProcessing attribute is set to AutoUpdate by default and is required that way to involve the delegates, i don't think it is required send a autoresponse. Hope that what you are looking for. Thanks.Vishal Ramnani | MCITP - Exchange 2007 | MCSE Messaging | MCTS - Win 2008 Config

Hi VishalI work with John and have been doing the "programming" through the Shell. I ran the cmdlet above and while it accepted it, it doesn't appear to have worked. I asked another employee to test it by making an appointment and selecting the room but I did not receive an email to confirm the appointment. The room is not set to AutoAccept and in the Resource Options on the Web Access the check box is ticked for the resource to send an email to the delegate but it doesn't appear to be working.Could there be another setting, perhaps in my own mailbox settings, that is preventing the automatic sending of an email from the resource?Any thoughts would be appreciated, from you or anyone else who may have some ideas.Thanks for your assistanceCheersCharmaine

Hi,Please refer to the article below to check the configuration.Managing Resource Mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007 (Part 3)http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/managing-resource-mailboxes-exchange-server-2007-part3.htmlRegards,Xiu

Hi, Did you try booking the meeting immediately after change? Did you set yourself as Resource Delegate on Room Mailbox? Did you try setting it up through web console what Xiu suggested in above link? Thanks. Vishal Ramnani | MCITP - Exchange 2007 | MCSE Messaging | MCTS - Win 2008 Config

Well you can try to set the options by using the resource mailbox options via OWA, just grant full access permissions to your userat the resource.. maybe some cmdlets mistake is causing issue..CapecolMCSA - MCTS Exchange Server 2007