Exchange Settings page

Exchange Settings

To configure the optional email, calendar and task tiles in Lookout or to enable the ability for “follow-up” items to automatically become tasks, the connection to Exchange must be configured in the “Exchange Settings” portion of the Email and Notifications administration section.

Note:

Social Sites’ Exchange integration features will only work for users that have a SIP in their user profile. For this reason, these features won’t work in Forms-Base Auth (FBA) environments, but should work in ADFS environments.

Preparatory steps for Exchange Integration

Prior to configuring Aurea Social’s connection to Exchange, you may need to complete the following two preparatory steps to allow SharePoint the access it needs to Exchange:

  1. If SSL is configured on the Exchange server for web service access, install into SharePoint the root authority certificate(s) for the issuer of the Exchange server SSL certificate.
  2. Provide SharePoint with credentials needed for making web service calls to Exchange.

Here are the specific steps necessary to accomplish these two preparatory tasks: