MS Exchange Installation and Administration

Overview

Installation of Exchange Crawler includes 4 Steps.

  1. Adding new Connector Class
  2. Creating new Connector based on the Connector Class
  3. Adding corresponding Data Handler Class
  4. Creating new Data Handler based on the Data Handler Class

1. Adding Connector Class

Navigate to Connectors in the Navigation menu on the left side of the screen.

Click the Add Class button.

Choose the JAR file you have received from Cogniware (locate it on your file system).

Example of the file:

ExchangeCrawler-1.4-2018-08-28_08-25-34.jar

Fill in the Class Name depending on the type of target system:

GDPR Explorer:

eu.cogniware.Crawlers.ExchangeCrawler.ExchangeCrawler

Click Add Connector Class button.

You can follow with immediately creating the corresponding Connector or you can do this later.

2. Creating Connector

If you didn't use the option to create the Connector immediately after adding the Connector Class, than:

Choose the Exchange Connector Class you have created in the previous stem from the Navigation menu in Connectors pane.

Click Add Connector button.

Fill in the Name of the connector.


GDPR Explorer Standard Setup


USERNAME: E-mail account that you would like to use for crawling

PASSWORD: Password for this e-mail

EWS_URL: 

  • Optional
  • Fill only when Exchange Autodiscover is not enabled or configured incorrectly
  • Complete URL of the Exchange Web Service
    • For example it might be: https://email.domain.com/EWS/Exchange.aspx


Click Add Connector button.

3. Adding Data Handler Class

Navigate to Data Handlers in the Navigation menu on the left side of the screen.

Click the Add Class button.

Choose the JAR file you have received from Cogniware (locate it on your file system).

Example of the file:

ExchangeCrawler-1.4-2018-08-28_08-25-34.jar

Fill in the Class Name depending on the type of target system:

GDPR Explorer:

eu.cogniware.DataHandlers.Exchange.PlatformExchangeDataHandler


Click Add Data Handler Class button.

You can follow with immediately creating the corresponding Data Handler or you can do this later.

4. Creating Data Handler

If you didn't use the option to create the Data Handler immediately after adding the Data Handler Class than:

Choose the Exchange Data Handler Class you have created from the Navigation menu in Data Handlers pane.

Click Add Data Handler button.

Fill in the Name of data handler.

GDPR Explorer Standard Setup

platform_protocol: http

platform_server: apimodules

platform_port: 8080

contains_personal_data: no (yes is only used when crawling data subjects)

Click Add Data Handler button.

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