Exchange Settings

Exchange Settings

   Exchange Archiving

ExchangeAPI

Use PST extraction to access Exchange

Default:off

Example:off

ExchangeAPI

Use Exchange Web Service (EWS) to access Exchange

Default:off

Example:off

Exchange host

Example interface:

Default:localhost

Port

Example interface:

Default:443

SSL

Use SSL

Example interface:

Options:On/Off

Default:true

EWSIgnoreSSLCertErrors

Some Exchange servers have expired or self-signed certificates for testing purposes. Use this setting to ignore certificate errors.

Default:true

Username

The user you wish to use for communications via EWS. This user should have impersonation permissions set by Powershell. To allow impersonation on your Exchange server please run this powershell script in the Exchange Powershell console on the server:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-ManagementRoleAssignment -name:HexamailImpersonation -Role:ApplicationImpersonation -User:<username>
For example:
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-ManagementRoleAssignment -name:HexamailImpersonation -Role:ApplicationImpersonation -User:Hexamail
or
[PS] C:\Windows\system32>New-ManagementRoleAssignment -name:HexamailImpersonation -Role:ApplicationImpersonation -User:Administrator

Default:Administrator

Example:Hexamail

Password

The password used to authenticate for this account

Example interface:

Default restore into folder

The default folder to upload to. This must be a well-known default folder such as "inbox", "sentitems" etc.

Default:Inbox

   Mailboxes

Active Directory Hostname

Specify the hostname of your Active Directory machine here. In some cases simply the machine/computer name will do in others you need to specify ComputerName.yourdomain.com. You can use localhost or leave it blank if Active Directory is running on the local machine.

Example interface:

Default:localhost

Example:Exchangeserver1

Admin Username

If the service is running as a System service (default) you need to specify a login username that has access to Active Directory. This login is typically the one you use to logon to the Active Directory machine as administrator. Be sure to include the domain in the username, e.g. the user Adminsitrator in the domain 'YourDomain' would be specified: YourDomain\Administrator

Example interface:

Password

If the service is running as a System service (default) you need to specify a login password for the username that has access to Active Directory. This login is typically the one you use to logon to the Active Directory machine as administrator. This password is sent and stored using strong encryption by the service.

Example interface:

Index mailboxes

Enable indexing of historical mail from Exchange mailbox folders

Default:on

Example:off

   Journaling

Journal Mailbox

NOTE that all email in the journal account will be deleted after being successfully added to the archive.

Example interface:

Example:CN=journal,CN=Users,DC=example,DC=com

Enable Journaling

Press the button to automatically enable journaling in Exchange to the selected mailbox. If journalling is already setup Hexamail Nexus will use the current journal account for archiving.

Index journal

Enable indexing of historical mail from Exchange mailbox folders

Default:off

Example:off

Delete journal email

Enable deletion of mail once it has been indexed from the journal account

Default:on

Example:off

   Stubbing

Stub email

Stubbing is the replacement of older, large email in Exchange mailboxes with a small piece of text or html (a "stub") which has a link to the original email content in the archive. In this way the storage requirements in Exchange are reduced but all email is still accessible by users from Outlook

Default:off

Configure stubs

Stub settings

Default:24

   Expiry

Expire email

You can choose to expire email from user mailboxes in Exchange when it reaches a certain age.

Default:off

Configure expiry

Stub settings

Default:60