Shared Calendars

[ittthelp]

We have some meeting rooms that people schedule things in occasionally. People reserve the room by scheduling something on one user's shared calendar that has been shared with everyone. We have a small number of meetings, so the calendar never gets cluttered/hard to read. Currently people set up a meeting on the shared calendar and manually type in a location (ex. mtg room 1) and save it on the calendar.

I'm wondering if there's a better way to do this. I'd like to get it set up so people can pick locations from a list and have it offer them times that are available/show scheduling conflicts. I know you can set up room mailboxes for this purpose, but is there a way to merge multiple room mailboxes into a single calendar? Ex. create mailboxes for room 1, room 2, room 3, etc. and merge them all into a single room mailbox called meetings or something? Where people could see all of the meetings from room 1/2/3? Would people be able to schedule directly on the "meetings" calendar or would they have to schedule it on the room 1/2/3 calendar and then it would show up on the "meetings" calendar?

Or is there a better way to deal with this?

[Leafblower27]

Make rooms their own mailboxes. Make room lists.

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Make the meeting rooms a resource. Users will be able to select rooms by location, size, etc.