Microsoft Office 365 Exchange

Set up Azure

First, you need to contact your Azure administrator and ask for three parameters which you’ll need when you create a connector.

  • Application (Client) ID

  • Client Secret

  • Directory (Tenant) ID

You can read the Azure procedure here.

Create the data source in Exonar

In Exonar, create a data source:

  1. From the main menu select Data Sources

  2. Click NewNew Data Source

  3. In the New Data Source dialog, select the dataset this new data source will belong to by:

    1. choosing an existing data set from the dropdown, or

    2. clicking Add to new Data Set and typing the name of your dataset

      If you use option 3b, remember to add the dataset to at least one security group

      If you don’t, no users will be able to see the data from this data source

  4. Click Next

  5. Select the Office 365 data source and click Next

  6. Select which Office 365 service you want to use: Exchange, SharePoint, or OneDrive

  7. Enter the Azure credentials for this data source

    Your Azure administrator can supply these

  8. Think about the ingestion scope you want to use

    If you’re crawling a user or a group of users, find the:

    • domain name

    • email address for the user or group of users

    For this scope:

    We crawl mailbox content for this:

    Everything

    All users that a tenant has.

    Domain

    All users belonging to a domain under the tenant.

    Group email

    All users belonging to a domain group.

    User email

    An individual domain user.

  9. Optionally, click Test Credentials

    Exonar validates them and shows you what the credentials allow you to crawl

    Test the Azure credentials for Office 365 Exchange

    If you see that you don’t have access to something you need to crawl, contact your Azure administrator

  10. Click Next

  11. Choose your ingestion scope:

    • Everything

    • Domain

    • Group email

    • User email

  12. Fill in the domain and email if needed

    If the scope is Everything, you don’t need any parameters

    Optionally, click Test Connection

Note

In most cases, this test is reliable. However, you might want to configure a data source before the target server is available, or perhaps during a scheduled maintenance window when the check isn’t possible.

Also, Office 365 cannot be fully validated without attempting to crawl data.

The Ignore this warning checkbox allows you to set up the data source even if validation fails.

Field

Description

Domain

The id of a Microsoft tenant-held domain. For example: exonarltd.onmicrosoft.com.

Email

If the ingestion scope is Group Email, this is an email address that identifies a user group. For example: group@example.com. If the ingestion scope is User Email, this is the email address for an individual user.

  1. Select the country for this data source and click Next

    The country is used in geographical visualisations

  2. Select the crawler

    In Exonar 4.3.0 there are two crawlers; you will only see the crawler that works with this data source

  3. Set the Crawl priority

  4. Specify whether you want to crawl once or continuously

  5. Click Start Crawl Immediately if you want to crawl the data right now

    Or you can start a crawl manually anytime you want

  6. Click Create Data Source

Limitations

We do not extract attachments from the calendar.

Only the user’s calendar is ingested. Any calendar shared with a user is ignored.

Only folders under the mailbox root folder will be ingested. As such, any email or other content moved to the root folder will not be ingested.

more See also Microsoft Exchange on Premise