If you use an microsoft 365 or microsoft exchange account with outlook you can use the scheduling assistant and room finder to help schedule your meetings.
Add room finder to outlook 2010.
Use the scheduling assistant.
Then you can switch rooms and or times until you find one that works for you.
Once you pick a room you will see any conflicts if the room is already reserved.
In outlook for office 365 the room finder control button can be found next to the location field on the meeting tab or on the ribbon when you view the scheduling assistant screen.
This issue occurs if no room lists were created in the organization.
The action of disabling the microsoft exchange add in in outlook and then enabling the add in again fixed the issue for me.
In its name the room list will be blank and the room will not add.
You also can use the keyboard shortcut ctrl shift q to create a new meeting.
If you close the room finder and then add the room it should be fine.
For this feature to work outlook can t use cached exchange mode.
Please remember that room finder will only work with exchange server 2010 and outlook 2010.
If you have a meeting room with a special character i e.
This appears to be caused by the room finder feature of outlook 2010.
From the inbox select new items meeting or in the calendar select new meeting.
First create an ou in active directory where the room mailbox will be located.
Outlook client will show all the rooms and all conflicts but to empower your users and let them see only the rooms that are available for the time when they re looking at scheduling a meeting to improve user productivity requires you to setup room finder for microsoft office outlook by leveraging room list distribution groups.
I have asked microsoft if they have a fix for this problem.
By default when you open a new meeting form in microsoft outlook 2016 microsoft outlook 2013 or microsoft outlook 2010 the room finder panel is displayed on the right side of the appointment screen and the scheduling assistant screen as shown in the following screen shots.
To configure room finder follow the steps below.
When a user creates a new meeting in microsoft outlook the show a room list option isn t displayed in the room finder pane additionally none is displayed in the choose an available room box.
My outlook 365 click to run client ver 1803 build 9126 2259 was missing the room finder pane and the room finder option button in the meeting request window.