The Federation Servicestion Services Exchange Connector allows organisations to read from and move email records from Microsoft Exchange for archiving, integration, indexing etc. Emails may be obtained by crawling Active Directory based on search values (i.e. a* for all users that start with the letter a) and then subsequently crawl Exchange for each email returned by Active Directory. Users may also enter emails in manually to be crawled.
Emails are queried using the date range given by the Federation Services Job allowing only new emails to be processed. Jobs can be run every x minutes/hours or days. Using Federation Services tasks, emails can be included or excluded based on certain metadata fields. Calculated fields may also be used to clean and normalise email metadata fields.