Hi DC,
According to my research and test:
Just as you said, for room/resource mailbox you can set it always accept meetings even with Outlook client not running via (Exchange server). But I'm afraid it is unachievable for a user mailbox.
So you may convert it to a resource mailbox as a workaround.
Thanks for your understanding and hope this can be helpful.
Regards,
Aidan Wang
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