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Is it possible to log in into an Office365 Meeting Room user?

I need to use an android app for each Meeting Room of my company and get the meeting room bookings to save them into a shared local repository.

I have to use Outlook Calendar REST API to get the meetings, is it possible?

"The meeting rooms have resource accounts, not user accounts. This means they cannot be logged into".. is this true??

Many thanks

Gabe
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It is true, you cannot log in to resource accounts. Today in order to access meeting room mailboxes, you need to implement the client credential flow and gain access to all mailboxes in the organization.

A couple of samples:

Jason Johnston
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  • So this wouldn't work? https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/insite/news/intnews2/email_work_jun-2013/resource_accounts/ "There's another way of opening resource accounts - sharing the password with other people and signing directly into it." - Thanks – Gabe Jun 01 '16 at 22:34
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    Nope, the API does not support delegate access. – Jason Johnston Jun 02 '16 at 17:15
  • So I can't login into a resource account using Outlook API in any way, right? Thanks – Gabe Jun 02 '16 at 18:57
  • The Outlook APIs don't "log in" to anything. You can use the API to access meeting room mailboxes, you just need a token which grants you that access. Today the only way is client credentials. – Jason Johnston Jun 02 '16 at 19:52