This chapter provides information about the requirements of installing and running ELOxc EWS. General ELO server requirements are provided in ELO System Requirements.

Requirements

• Windows Server 2008 x64 or newer. ELOxc EWS does not support 32-bit versions of Windows.
• A Windows domain account with the rights and roles described below.
• Microsoft Management Framework 4.0
• Microsoft .NET 4.5 (x64 Full Profile)
• For ELOxc Console: Apache Tomcat 8

Supported Exchange versions

The following versions of Microsoft Exchange are supported:

• Version 2010 (SP2 or higher)
• Version 2013
• Version 2016
• Microsoft Exchange Online (Office 365)

Information: A non-Exchange e-mail server is supported as of ELOxc EWS 10.1 with certain restrictions.

Exchange 2010

A Windows domain account with associated Exchange mailbox and the following roles:

• Send As: This right is required by the service user to send error messages via e-mail.
• Receive As: Required to access the mailboxes.
• User Impersonation: Required to retrieve messages from users and groups. The placeholder [RoleName] can be replaced with any name to assign the role.
• Recommended for trouble-free processing: Full Access and Read Access

Exchange 2013

A Windows domain account with associated Exchange mailbox and the following roles:

• ApplicationImpersonation
• ArchiveApplication
• Recommended: the Send As, Receive As, Full Access, and Read Access Exchange rights.

Exchange 2016/Exchange Online

A Windows domain account with associated Exchange mailbox and the following roles:

• ApplicationImpersonation
• ArchiveApplication
• MailboxSearchApplication
• OfficeExtensionApplication
• UserApplication
• Recommended: the Send As, Receive As, Full Access, and Read Access Exchange rights.

Information: Version.txt, a file provided with the ELOxc installation files, may provide additional requirements/information specific to a particular ELOxc version.

Please note: The ELOxc domain account may only be used for ELOxc. It cannot be a journal account or similar.

Recommended extras

A separate ELO service account should be used exclusively with ELOxc. This will help with logging system events.

A collection of sample action trees is available on the ELO SupportWeb. These can be imported with the ELO Java Client.

Additional literature for ELOxc EWS:

• [MS-OXPROPS]: Microsoft Exchange Server Protocols Master Property List
• ELO documentation: ELOxc Technical Reference