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Microsoft Exchange connector overview

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Microsoft Exchange connector overview - Amazon Q Business

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business Microsoft Exchange connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow
Authentication credentials
  • Microsoft Exchange Client ID

  • Microsoft Exchange Client secret

Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling No
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:
  • Mail

  • Calendar

  • Attachment

  • OneNotes

  • Contacts

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.

Field mappings Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:
  • Include/exclue Calendars

  • Include/exclude OneNotes

  • Include/exclude Contacts

  • Include/exclude using file user email ID

  • Include/exclude using date

  • Include/exclude using email to, from, subjects, domains

  • Include/exclude by file name regex patterns

  • Include/exclude by file type regex patterns

Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.
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