Hello. I've created an Equipment resource mailbox ("Vacation") for employees to place their vacation requests on. Employees schedule a meeting for their desired vacation day, and add the "Vacation" calendar as an optional resource. The request then goes to the booking delegates for the calendar (I have three people configured as booking delegates for "Vacation"), and each of them has the ability to approve or deny the request. So far, so good.
The issue I'm having is that when the booking delegate receives the request and approves it, the calendar event not only shows up on the "Vacation" resource calendar, but on the delegate's calendar as well. So if John wants to take a day off, John plans a meeting, adds the "Vacation" resource as an optional delegate, and sends the request. Betty is one of the booking delegates for the "Vacation" resource, and the request shows up in her inbox. When she approves the request, John's requested shows up on the "Vacation" calendar, but on Betty's as well! Betty's calendar is now flooded with vacation events, even though she isn't the one taking the vacation. Further, Betty's calendar shows as full, due to the addition of all of these vacation events, even though none of them apply to her.
We're using Exchange 2013, with Outlook 2007 clients. If anyone has some insights on why this is happening (and even more important, how to keep it from happening), I'd be grateful to hear them. The Exchange processing seems really counter-intuitive, but perhaps I'm missing something. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you might have.
Mitchell