Exchange Mailbox

Use the Exchange Mailbox source to enable the crawling and classification of content stored in a single Exchange mailbox on the on-premises Exchange server or Exchange Online.

Step 1 – In Netwrix Data Classification management console, open the Sources view and click Add.

Step 2 – Select Exchange Mailbox source type and in the properties window specify the necessary settings.

Authentication type: Modern authentication

If you plan to use this authentication type (available only for Exchange Online mailbox processing), specify the following:

Option	Description
Authentication type	Select Modern (Exchange Online)
Admin Username	Specify the administrative account for the required Exchange Online organization. The user must have a mailbox connected to it in order to crawl Exchange.
Tenant ID	Enter the Tenant ID you obtained at Step 5: Obtain Tenant ID.
Certificate thumbprint	Enter the certificate thumbprint you prepared at Step 4: Configure Certificates & secrets.
Application ID	Enter the app ID you got at application registration at Step 2: Create and Register a new app in Azure AD (it can be found in the Azure AD app properties >Overview).

Authentication type: Basic

If you plan to use this authentication type, you will need to specify the following:

Option	Description	Comments
Email Address / Password	Administrator account that has been assigned both: 1. Impersonation right 2. Discovery Management role	See Configure Microsoft Exchange for Crawling and Classification for details on the rights assignment.

Other configuration settings

By default, only basic settings are displayed. To view advanced options, click the "wrench" icon at Settings in the bottom.

Option	Description	Comments
Basic settings
Mailbox	Mailbox to be crawled.	When using impersonation, the settings can be like the following example: Email Address administrative account granted Impersonation right, e.g. administrator@cs.com Mailbox target mailbox, e.g. test@cs.com.
Crawl Range	Define what portions of data should be retrieved from the Exchange server: Select Date Range to crawl a static set of data within the required interval. Select Since if you want to periodically re-crawl content from the specified date, taking into account the last crawl date for each object.
Crawl In-Place Archive	Select this option if you want to crawl Exchange Online in-place archive mailboxes.	Applies to Exchange Online.
OCR Processing Mode	Set the processing mode for document images: Disabled document images will not be processed Default defaults to the source setting (if configuring a path) or the global setting (if configured on a source) Normal process the images with normal quality settings Enhanced upscale the images further to allow more accurate results.	The Enhanced mode will provide better accuracy but can lead to longer processing time if the images do not contain text.
Source Group	Select the source group (if any).
Pause source on creation	Select if you want to make other configuration changes before data collection occurs.
Advanced settings
Build Search Index	Select if you want search index to be created.
Re-Index Period	Specify how often the source should be checked for changes. Default is 7 days.	Netwrix recommends using default values.
Priority	Set priority for this data source to be crawled. Select the priority level from the list values: Highest High Normal Low Lowest
Document Type	Specify a value which can be used to restrict queries when utilizing the Netwrix Data Classification search index.