Pick from multiple rooms, when creating recurring meeting

Question

Say I have a recurring Tuesday 10-11AM meeting I want to book in Outlook for the next year.  I would like to book it in the room "Shasta", because it has the best teleconference equipment, but it's not a deal-breaker if I have to
be in anther conference room..
But it turns out that next month on August 18th, Susan has already booked Shasta in the same timeslot, causing a resource conflict with "Shasta.  Even if this is the only conflict, my entire meeting series gets declined.
My options at this point are grim.  I can partition my recurring meeting into a pre-August 18th partition, and a post-August 18th partition, with a third single instance on August 18th in some room other than Shasta.  My attendees have
to suffer 3 invites.  There are also some other really painful things i can do to book the meeting, such as manually booking each of the 52 instances etc.
Bottom line is, I shouldn't have to spend 1-2 hours booking a meeting, and confusing my attendees with a half-dozen Meeting Update notifications due to room changes.
Is there an after-market utility or some trick I can use to say:
"Book a recurring weekly Tuesday meeting from 10-11AM, 52 instances. My first room choice is Shasta, my second room choice is Alps, third room choice is Morgue, fourth room choice is Eiger."
And it will figure out the rooms for me?
Thanks very much for your time.
-Jeff
ps: For now, don't worry about platform or version of Outlook.  I'm open to all ppossibilities  I use Outlook for Mac.  It's lacking in feature parity,
much like Office for Mac, so I book my meetings and organize distro lists through Outlook Web Access, and I also have a VMWare instance of Windows running for when I need some functionality that is only available in the Windows version of Outlook.

Answer 1

Hi Jeff,
In Outlook side, if there are any conflicts in your recurring meeting, we can pick out the conflicts then open just this one instance of recurring meeting, change the location to another room, and send updates to all attendees.
After changing locations for all conflicts meeting one by one and the changed rooms also have accepted all updates, the organizer can open the entire series of recurring meeting in Calendar and send updates to all attendees without change anything. Now,
there should be no conflicts and the recurring meeting should be accepted by the room mailbox.
Additionally, this scenario which the behavior of the
Resource Booking Attendant may seem confusing when it comes to processing a recurring meeting request where individual recurrences conflict with existing calendar items can be managed by calendar processing settings in Exchange server side. The Exchange
administrator can use
Set-CalendarProcessing in Exchange 2010 to allow recurring meeting conflicts and set Max conflict instances. For more information about it, please refer to:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/02/07/3411956.aspx
Regards,
Winnie Liang
TechNet Community Support