How to use IBM App Connect with Microsoft Exchange

Supported product and API versions

To find out which product and API versions this connector supports, see Detailed System Requirements on the IBM Support page.

Connecting to Microsoft Exchange

Complete the connection fields that you see in the App Connect Designer Connect > Applications and APIs page (previously the Catalog page) or flow editor. If necessary, work with your Microsoft Exchange administrator to obtain these values.

Microsoft Exchange connection fields:

To obtain the connection values for Microsoft Exchange, see Obtaining connection values for Microsoft Exchange.

To connect to a Microsoft Exchange endpoint from the App Connect Designer Applications and APIs page for the first time, expand Microsoft Exchange, then click Connect. For more information, see Managing accounts.

General considerations

Before you use App Connect Designer with Microsoft Exchange, take note of the following considerations:

• (General consideration) You can see lists of the trigger events and actions that are available on the Applications and APIs page of the App Connect Designer.

  For some applications, the events and actions depend on the environment and whether the connector supports configurable events and dynamic discovery of actions. If the application supports configurable events, you see a Show more configurable events link under the events list. If the application supports dynamic discovery of actions, you see a Show more link under the actions list.

• (General consideration) If you are using multiple accounts for an application, the set of fields that is displayed when you select an action for that application can vary for different accounts. In the flow editor, some applications always provide a curated set of static fields for an action. Other applications use dynamic discovery to retrieve the set of fields that are configured on the instance that you are connected to. For example, if you have two accounts for two instances of an application, the first account might use settings that are ready for immediate use. However, the second account might be configured with extra custom fields.

Events and actions

Microsoft Exchange events

These events are for changes in this application that trigger a flow to start completing the actions in the flow.

Show more configurable events: Events that are shown by default are pre-configured by using optimized connectivity. More items are available after you configure events that can trigger a flow by polling this application for new or updated objects. For more information about configurable events, see Configuring polled events to trigger flows.

Microsoft Exchange actions

Your flow completes these actions on this application.

Attachments

Create attachment

Retrieve attachments

Delete attachment

Download attachment

Calendar groups

Create calendar group

Retrieve calendar groups

Update calendar group

Delete calendar group

Calendars

Create calendar

Retrieve calendars

Update calendar

Delete calendar

Contact folders

Create contact folder

Retrieve contact folders

Update contact folder

Delete contact folder

Contacts

Create contact

Retrieve contacts

Update contact

Delete contact

Conversations

Create conversation

Retrieve conversations

Emails

Create draft email

Move email

Send email

Retrieve emails

Update email

Delete email

Send draft email

Reply to email

Reply all to email

Forward email

Copy email

Groups

Create group

Retrieve groups

Delete group

Update group

Mail folders

Create mail folder

Retrieve mail folders

Update mail folder

Delete mail folder

Organizations

Retrieve organizations

Users

Retrieve users