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I'm trying to create an Outlook Web Add-In that manages meeting rooms for it's users. The problem is getting and setting rooms in the Outlook Desktop Client.

When I try to get the item.RequiredAttendees it gives me back the user's email eventhough the list is empty. Furthermore when I input a meeting room with an exchange address, I can't obtain the room through item.RequiredAttendees.

I've tried numerous things, went through the whole office.js API as far as I know.

To add to this, it all works fine when using OutlookWebApp, it returns the email with recipientType being External User as upposed to user. Adding only a location does not work as I need the exchange address to update the outlook calendar of that meeting room.

So, to summarize: I need a way to obtain the room email address from an outlook appointment in compose mode in the Outlook Desktop Client.

Thanks in advance.

CKE
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This is not possible today. However, we track Outlook add-in feature requests on our user-voice page. It looks like the feature you want has been requested by others already. Please upvote the existing request. Feature requests on user-voice are considered when we go through our planning process.

[Outlook Add-ins Engineering Team]

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    Related to this, there is already an item on UserVoice with almost the most votes in the outlook category: https://officespdev.uservoice.com/forums/224641-feature-requests-and-feedback/suggestions/13316001-add-office-javascript-api-support-for-resources-of. For almost 2 years the status is 'In Backlog'. Several people are asking for an update on this. Why aren't we updated more often on the status of these items? – RBDev Aug 21 '18 at 12:25