Best way to utilize Zoom Room licenses when scheduling/starting meetings

[TLLF]

My office has a number of Zoom Room licenses that are associated with a number of M365 resource rooms. When creating a Zoom Meeting, users are using the Zoom for Outlook plug-in, signed in with an account that has delegated scheduling permissions within Zoom to each of the Zoom Room "users", and selecting the name of the room from the "Schedule for" dropdown in the settings of the plug-in to create the meeting, then adding the Resource Room to the attendees or location so that the meeting shows up on the calendar for that room.

This is currently the only way we have found to consistently get the "Start" option on the meeting room's controllers rather than "Join", so the meeting utilizes the Zoom Room license for the meeting rather than the account used to schedule the meeting's license. This allows us to avoid concurrent meetings on the same license.

Is there a better way to set this up so that meetings held "in the Zoom Room" always use the Zoom Room's license, regardless of if it's delegated or not? 

[LK_EXN]

If you go to Room Management > Account Settings, then to Meeting tab, you should find this option:

Make Zoom Rooms the host if it joins before meeting host and other participants

When enabled, Zoom Rooms automatically become the host when it joins an internal meeting before the host and other participants.

I think that this may be a solution to your problem 😉