We have not used Room Mailboxes until now and have just decided to do so. I created a Room Mailbox (in EMC). I designated a delegate to manage requests: Set-MailboxCalendarSettings Conference_Room -ResourceDelegates "Jennifer Jones" I have left the value for the AutomateProcessing parameter at the default, that is "AutoUpdate" AutoUpdate This is the default value. The Calendar Attendant will process meeting requests which will sit in the calendar of the room in a "tentative state" waiting a delegate approval. (The meeting organizer will receive only the decision of the delegate). http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2009/02/26/3407028.aspx I added the room in my meeting request (in Outlook). The Scheduling Assistant shows the meeting time as "tentative" for the room. However, looking at message tracking, the delegate "Jennifer Jones" has not recieved a request to approve the meeting (which I would expect, given the explaination of the "AutoUpdate" function in italics above. Isn't that how this is supposed to work? Here's the complete configuration of the Room Mailbox - everything at default except addition of delegate: [PS] C:\>Get-MailboxCalendarSettings Conference_Room | fl AutomateProcessing : AutoUpdate AllowConflicts : False BookingWindowInDays : 180 MaximumDurationInMinutes : 1440 AllowRecurringMeetings : True EnforceSchedulingHorizon : True ScheduleOnlyDuringWorkHours : False ConflictPercentageAllowed : 0 MaximumConflictInstances : 0 ForwardRequestsToDelegates : True DeleteAttachments : True DeleteComments : True RemovePrivateProperty : True DeleteSubject : True DisableReminders : True AddOrganizerToSubject : True DeleteNonCalendarItems : True TentativePendingApproval : True EnableResponseDetails : True OrganizerInfo : True ResourceDelegates : {Jennifer Jones} RequestOutOfPolicy : AllRequestOutOfPolicy : False BookInPolicy : AllBookInPolicy : True RequestInPolicy : AllRequestInPolicy : False AddAdditionalResponse : False AdditionalResponse : RemoveOldMeetingMessages : True AddNewRequestsTentatively : True ProcessExternalMeetingMessages : False DefaultReminderTime : 15 RemoveForwardedMeetingNotifications : False Identity : mydomain.local/Users/Conference Room * * Is this the problem: RequestInPolicy : AllRequestInPolicy : False ???Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Hmmm... Looking at this further, it looks like "AutoAccept" is the only way to make this work - unless you grant the delegate Full Access to the mailbox so they can manage reqeusts directly from the mailbox? With AutoUpdate the delegate will never receive a request in their mailbox then?Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.

Hmmm... Looking at this further, it looks like "AutoAccept" is the only way to make this work - unless you grant the delegate Full Access to the mailbox so they can manage reqeusts directly from the mailbox? With AutoUpdate the delegate will never receive a request in their mailbox then? Hi Le Pivert, You are correct. You need to have these settings so that the meeting is forwarded to the Delegate for approval: AutomateProcessing : AutoAccept AllBookInPolicy : True AllRequestInPolicy : False ResourceDelegates : {domain.local/OU/SomeUser} ..and when you do, the Organizer will first get a message that is saying "Your request was received and is pending approval" until delegate users approves the meeting. And this is what the delegate will see: This in-policy resource request was forwarded to you for your approval. This request was forwarded to you for approval because the organizer doesn't have permission to book this resource Martina Miskovic

Yes, just tried it and it works. Although the link I have used these settings (which I used): -AllBookInPolicy:$false -AllRequestInPolicy:$true Anyway, Delegate received the request and approved it and the meeting is shown as scheduled with the reserved room.Please mark as helpful if you find my contribution useful or as an answer if it does answer your question. That will encourage me - and others - to take time out to help you.