We are currently running Exchange 2013.  My goal is to setup a Calendar in Outlook for each of our conference rooms.  Users will use the calendar to book events in the conference rooms.  I would like all users to be able to add events to the calendar.  I will assign Booking Delegates to manage the events.

Right now, I have four Room Mailboxes set up in Resources in Exchange admin.  One for each conference room.  Each has a corresponding email address that links to a user account in AD.  These users are disabled in AD.  They are in their own OU as well.

I also have a Public Folder Mailbox configured that is linked to a user in AD that is disabled.

I also have Public Folders setup for each conference room that is linked to the Public Mailbox.

I am able to invite the user/room to a meeting.  The booking delegates receive a email for the event.  The delegates are able to accept the event.  HOWEVER the event never shows up on the Calendar in the Public Folder.  If I try to schedule a second event at the same time, it is declined because another event already exists. 

Why are the events not visible on the calendar?

I have setup our All Staff AD Group to have Author rights to the Calendar.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I am stuck.

THANKS in advance. 

What is wrong with just creating Room Mailboxes and using them the way they're designed to be used?  A room mailbox automatically has a disabled AD account.  What value is added by you creating additional disabled user accounts, if that's what you're doing?

What value do you think is being added with the public folder?  Public folder calendars don't have the many features that room mailboxes have in Exchange 2013, and Outlook doesn't work well with them.

Author rights aren't required for normal room mailbox use.  Users invite the room mailbox to a meeting and its autoacceptance settings accept or reject the invitation according to the policy you configure.

Thanks for the reply and good questions.  I was clearly making this way more complicated than it should be.  I just realized how to add the Room Calendar and there are my events.  My goodness.  Now I will go clean up everything I do not need.