Configure and use Exchange connector in SharePoint 2013

We can configure the exchange connecter to SharePoint and we can crawl the data from Exchange server.  First of all we need to create a crawl rule if the default content access account doesn't have read permissions to exchange server public folders that we wanted to crawl.

To create crawl rule, Navigate to Application Management section and click on Manage Service Applications link

In the Manage Service Applications page, click on the search service application to configure the crawl.

In Search Administration page, crawling section, click on Crawl Rules.

Click on New Crawl Rule link in Manage Crawl Rules page.

On Add Crawl Rule page, path section, enter the path in Path text box that to apply the crawl rule. We can use slandered or wildcard characters in the path. Url of the path must be <protocol>://hostname, here protocol will be http:// or https:// and host name will be fully qualified domain anme that running in the exchange server.

Select include all items in this path in Crawl Configuration.

In Specify Authentication section, select the type of crawl authentication to use. We can see this section as enabled if we select include all items in this path check box. Click on "OK".

Once we are done with configuring crawler, we have to add content source for exchange server public folders. We can do that by using the steps below,

To add exchange server 2007 and exchange server 2007 SP1 public folders,

Navigate to Search service Application Administration page (Application Management ->Manage service application -> Select "Search Service Application" in the list of service applications)

Click on Content Sources link in Search Administration Crawling section.

Click on New Content Source in Manage Content Sources page.

In Add content source page enter the name of new content source.

Select Exchange public Folders in Content Source Type section.

Type the Url for Exchange Server public folders that we want to crawl in Type start address below (in one line) box in Start Addresses section. We can see the URL's as <protocol>://hostname/public or <protocol>://hostname/public/subfolder, here <protocol> is like http or https and host name is the name of the server. We cannot add the same address for multiple content sources.

In the crawl settings section, select the crawling behavior as we want. In Crawl Schedule section we can specify the schedules for full crawl and incremental crawl. To create full crawl, click on Create schedule link in the full crawl list. To create incremental crawl schedule click on Create schedule for Incremental Crawl list. Click on Ok.

To add content sources for Exchange server 2007 SP2 and later versions of public folders,

Log on to outlook web access using an account that having at least read permissions and Go to public folders and right click on it and select Open New Window.

When it opens, go to the address bar and copy the URL. That URL will be the outlook web access for public folders.

In SharePoint Central Administration, Search Administration Page for crawling section, click on content sources.

Add new Content source by clicking on New Content Source link.

Enter the name of the content source in add content source page. Select Exchange Public Folders in Content Source Type section.

In the start address section, paste the outlook web access public folder URL.

Select the crawling behavior that we want in the Crawl Settings section.

In the Crawl Schedules section, specify the full crawl and incremental crawl schedules. To create full crawls click on Create Schedule link below the Full Crawl list and for the incremental Crawl click on Incremental crawl in Create schedule link. Click "OK".