Advanced Conference Room Options in Microsoft Exchange Online

In Microsoft Exchange Online when configuring Conference Rooms through the Administration Console, the options are pretty basic. You can configure whether or not to automatically accept meeting requests or have them approved by a Delegate. If you want to make futher modifications, you can, but you must log in through Outlook Web Access. Since it’s a resource you can’t log directly into the mailbox via OWA, you need to first log into OWA using an account which has Service Admin rights in Microsoft Online. You can then open the resource mailbox as shown in the image below.

Once in the resource mailbox, go into Options and in the left pane you’ll see Resource Settings. Clicking on Resource Settings will reveal many more options that can be used to customize the behavior of the resource mailbox as shown in the image below.