Read-Only EAS access to an Exchange Room Mailbox

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We have conference rooms set up in Exchange to automatically accept meeting requests.

However, our users have iPhones, and there is not apparently any way for them to see whether a room is available before they request the room.

Is there any facility for our iPhone users to be able to see that information?

The only way I can think of to do this would be to configure a separate Exchange account referencing each conference room and only synchronize the calendar to their phones. The problem I see with this is primarily that they users can directly enter/delete/modify items on the calendars. I don't want them to do that.

Best Answer

I feel like I'm misunderstanding the question, but:

You should be able to configure permissions on the conference room accounts so that users can see the rooms' calendars without having write access to them.