⚡️ Room Booking is Up! ⚡️

First, let's explain the reason the service wasn't working. Previously, our room booking system worked through integration with My University. However, a few days ago, legacy My University stopped working, and it's unknown when it will be restored. So, we decided to urgently migrate to working directly with Outlook to eliminate our dependence on My University. This also improved the service's reliability — now the system waits for Outlook to approve the booking. Additionally, we don't store any booking info on our side — Outlook is the only source of bookings.

Although some university services are still temporarily unavailable, we are resuming our room booking service. You can now use room booking just like before!

We’re already working on the next round of improvements: in the near future, we plan to add new features such as booking cancellation and editing, adding participants, booking for staff, booking Room 309A and daytime classroom access via approved lists. We’re also focused on improving overall stability and making bookings faster, since creating or deleting a booking can currently take up to 5 seconds.

Contributors:
@dantetemplar — responsible for migration
@belyak_anya — managed bureaucracy and negotiations
@dofi4ka — migrated system to work with Outlook directly
@ArtemSBulgakov — experimented with EWS

✨ If you have any improvement ideas or encountered issues, then make sure to tell us via Google Form or create an issue on GitHub!

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