Partly reserve a resource like a meeting room

Question

Hi fellow Technetters,
I have a question. The title says it all actually.
What I want to know if it is somehow possible to partly reserve a resource like a training/meeting room.
We have, in our office, a training room which can also be used as a meeting room. There are 4 training workplaces setup in the training/meeting room.
What I want to do is to create 4 separate calendars for each training workplace. I know how to do that so that's not the problem.
Then I want to create a fifth calendar for the whole training/meeting room so it can be reserved completely.
But here comes the tricky party. If colleague1 already reserved one (or more) of the training workplaces in that room, and colleague2 tries to reserve the
whole training/meeting room, colleague2 should get the message that his/her reservation is declined because one (or more) of the training workplaces is already reserved.
So in short, somehow there must be a connection between the 4 separate training workplace calendars and the fifth whole training/meeting room calendar.
Is this even possible in Exchange?
If yes, how?
Gr,
Ash

Answer 1

Hi Ash,
Based on my knowledge, there is no method to achieve this. The resource assistant which is used for room mailbox can't achieve this relationship among mutiple room mailboxes. The meeting request forwarding is not a good choose either.
I suggest we can just create four calendars for these four training workplaces. When the user wants to book the whole meeting room, please add all four rooms in the Location field and send meeting request as a workaround. Then the room would not be conflicted
during the booking.
Regards,
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