Microsoft Exchange connector overview - Amazon Q Business

Microsoft Exchange connector overview

The following table shows the Amazon Q Business Microsoft Exchange connector features and capabilities.

Category Feature Latest Connector Legacy Connector
Security Authentication type OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow
Authentication credentials

  • Microsoft Exchange Client ID

  • Microsoft Exchange Client secret

  • Microsoft Exchange Client ID

  • Microsoft Exchange Client secret
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling. Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Identity crawling Yes Yes
VPC No Yes
Customer Managed Key (CMK) support No Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata No No
Entities Mail only (automatic) 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 (Automatic) Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Date range only 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 Full sync only Supports full and incremental sync
File types File types No Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.