Connection settings
You need to set up the ELOxc service connection to the catalog and EWS in the instance connection settings. You will find the Connection settings area in the ELOxc Workspace instance configuration.
The SMTP address of the service connection is required to allow the EWS connection and error messages by e-mail.
The service connection must be configured according to the selected catalog type. The following table provides an explanation of each catalog type and the required access rights.
| Catalog | Explanation |
| ldap | This interface is the default setting and uses an LDAP connection to search Active Directory for mailboxes. The service connection must have read access for this to work. |
| ps | This interface stands for Remote PowerShell, which is normally used for mailbox enumeration on Exchange servers in Microsoft Office 365. It is important to remember that the service connection must have the rights to use the "Get-Mailbox" and "Get-MailboxPermission" cmdlets to query necessary mailbox information. This requires the role "Exchange Administrator". |
| ews | This catalog is created directly through the connection to Exchange Web Services. |
| azure | The mailbox query interface is Azure Active Directory, which is generally used with Microsoft Office 365. The Azure catalog uses Microsoft Graph. Of all catalog types, Azure requires the most preparation. This catalog type is used when a PowerShell catalog cannot be used and an EWS catalog is too complicated to configure due to its inherent limitations. Access rights are a basic requirement for app registration. |
| statlogin | This catalog type represents the manual configuration of the mailboxes to be processed. It is normally used if the mailboxes cannot or should not be found automatically. In this case, you need to enter the mailboxes manually so that they are available as an ELOxc mailbox catalog. A catalog interface is not used. You can even do without impersonation and configure ELOxc so that each mailbox account only processes its own mailbox and each entry therefore requires complete logon data. This amount of administration is therefore only worthwhile in small application scenarios. |
The retrieved mailboxes are stored in the catalog based on their SMTP addresses and some other characteristics for further processing by the action trees. The scope of processing options is determined by the catalog interface, but also by the mailbox type, which is one of the additional characteristics queried. Characteristics that cannot be found are therefore not available during processing.
It is also important to be able to catalog the mailbox of the service connection, as with most catalog types in ELOxc, the mailbox catalog is regarded as a synonym for the user database. If accounts are configured as "hidden", they cannot normally be cataloged (see "UseHidden"). The basic rule here is: ELOxc cannot process what it cannot see.