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About the connector

The Exchange connector provides a robust, platform-independent, and simple interface for communicating with Microsoft Exchange 2007-2016 Server or Office365 using Exchange Web Services (EWS).

This document provides information about the Exchange connector, which facilitates automated interactions, with an Exchange server using FortiSOAR™ playbooks. Add the Exchange connector as a step in FortiSOAR™ playbooks and perform automated operations, such as retrieving unread emails, moving or deleting emails from the Exchange server, sending an email from the Exchange server, or running a query on the Exchange server based on parameter (s) that you have specified.

Version information

Connector Version: 1.3.1

Compatibility with FortiSOAR™ Versions: 4.10.2-225 and later

Compatibility with Exchange Versions: Microsoft Exchange 2007-2016 Server or Office365

Authored By: Fortinet, Inc.

Certified: Yes

Release Notes for version 1.3.1

Following enhancements have been made to the Exchange Connector in version 1.3.1:

  • Extended the Query parameter in the Search Email operation to include advanced search options, such as the ability to search by date.

Installing the connector

All connectors provided by FortiSOAR™ are delivered using a FortiSOAR™ repository. Therefore, you must set up your FortiSOAR™ repository and use the yum command to install connectors:

yum install cyops-connector-exchange

For the detailed procedure to install a connector, click here.

Prerequisites to configuring the connector

  • You must have the hostname of Exchange server to which you will connect and perform the automated operations and the credentials to access that server.
  • You must install the exchangelib==1.10.7 python module.
  • You must open port 993 (IMAP) on the firewall to allow communication between FortiSOAR™ and the Exchange server.

Configuring the connector

For the procedure to configure a connector, click here.

Configuration parameters

In FortiSOAR™, on the Connectors page, select the Exchange connector and click Configure to configure the following parameters:

Parameter Description
Host Host name of the Exchange server to which you will connect and perform the automated operations.
Username Username to access the Exchange server/Office365 server.
For Exchange, add the username in the format Domain\Username.
Password Password to access the Exchange server.
Email Address Email address of the Exchange server that you are using.
Access Type Access type for the user.
Choose between Delegate or Impersonation.
Protocol Protocol that will be used to communicate, choose either http and https.
By default, this is set to https.
Use Autodiscover An alias account will work for the given account details.
Defaults to False.
Verify SSL Specifies whether the SSL certificate for the server is to be verified or not.
Defaults to True.

Actions supported by the connector

The following automated operations can be included in playbooks and you can also use the annotations to access operations from FortiSOAR™ release 4.10.0 onwards:

Function Description Annotation and Category
Create Calendar Event Creates an event in a calendar on the Exchange Server, based on input parameters, such as subject, from date and to date, you have specified. create_event
Investigation
Get Calendar Events Gets events from the calendar on the Exchange server, based on the filer criteria, such as subject, from time, and to time, you have specified. get_events
Investigation
Get Contacts Gets the contact list from the mailbox on the Exchange server. get_contacts
Investigation
Delete Email Deletes an email from a specified folder on the Exchange server, based on the input parameters, such as message ID and delete type, you have specified. delete_email
Investigation
Get Unread Emails Gets all unread emails from the Exchange server. You can also mark the retrieved Unread emails as Read. get_email
Investigation
Mark Email as Read Marks an unread email as read on the Exchange Server, based on the message ID you have specified.
Move Email Moves an email from a specified folder to a specified folder, based on the message ID and the source and destination folder you have specified. move_email
Miscellaneous
Search Email Runs a query on the Exchange server and searches emails, based on input parameters, such as folder name, email address, body, and subject, that you have specified. search_query
Investigation
Send Email Sends an email from the Exchange server.

operation: Create Calendar Event

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Subject Subject line of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Start Date Start date and time of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
End Date End date and time of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Required Attendees (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members who are required to attend the event. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
For example, @xyz.com, def@lmn.com
Optional Attendees (CSV / List Format) (Optional) Email IDs of the optional members who can attend the event. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
Body (Optional) Details of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Location (Optional) Location of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Categories (CSV / List Format) (Optional) Category of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server. For example, Blue category, Green Category, etc.
Show As (Optional) Status of the attendees when they are attending this event. You can choose one of the following options: Free, Working elsewhere, Tentative, Busy, or OOF.
Reminder (Optional) Time before the event starts when you want to set a reminder for the attendees. You can choose one of the following options: 0 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour, 4 hour, 8 hour, 12 hour, 1 day, 2 day, 3 day, 1 week, or 2 week.
Is All Day If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this sets the event as a full-day event.
By default, this is set to False.
Is Private If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this sets the event as a private event and it can be viewed only by its attendees.
By default, this is set to True.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the create calendar event operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the calendar event is successfully added on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Create Calendar Event operation

operation: Get Calendar Events

Input parameters

Note: All the input parameters are optional. However, if you do not specify any parameter, then no filter criteria is applied and an unfiltered list is returned.

Parameter Description
Subject Subject text based on which you want to filter events on the Exchange server.
From Time Start date and time from when you want to retrieve events from the Exchange server.
To Time End date and time till when you want to retrieve events from the Exchange server.

Output

The JSON output contains the retrieved events from the calendar on the Exchange server, based on the input parameters you have specified.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Calendar Events operation

operation: Get Contacts

Input parameters

None.

Output

The JSON output contains the retrieved contact list from the mailbox on the Exchange server.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Contacts operation

operation: Delete Email

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to delete.
Delete Type Type of Delete that you want to use to delete the email. You can choose from the following options: Soft Delete, Hard Delete, or Move To Trash.
Folder Name (Optional) Folder on the Exchange server from which you want to delete the email.
By default, this is set as Inbox.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the delete operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the email is successfully deleted from the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Delete Email operation

operation: Get Unread Emails

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Mark as Read If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this operations retrieves the unread emails from the Exchange server and also marks these emails as Read.
By default this is set to True.

Output

The JSON contains details of all the unread mails retrieved from the Exchange server.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Unread Emails operation

operation: Mark Email as Read

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to mark as read.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the mark email as read operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the specified email is successfully marked as read on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Mark Email as Read operation

operation: Move Email

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to move.
Source Folder Source folder on the Exchange server from where you want to move the email.
Destination Folder Destination folder on the Exchange server to which you want to move the email.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the move operation. The JSON output returns a Successmessage if the email is successfully moved as per your specifications on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Move Email operation

operation: Search Email

Input parameters

Note: All the input parameters are optional. However, if you do not specify any parameter, then no filter criteria is applied and an unfiltered list is returned.

Parameter Description
Folder Name Folder on the Exchange server based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Email Address Email address of the email message based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Subject Subject of the email message based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Body Content within the body of the email based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Query Search parameters based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server in form of a query.
Accepts input in the dictionary format.
For example, {'subject__icontains' : '365', 'datetime_received__gt' : '2018-01-20T18:30:00.000Z'}
You can also provide options such as:
subject__exact='foo' // Returns items where subject is 'foo'. Same as filter(subject='foo'),
subject__iexact='foo' // Returns items where subject is 'foo', 'FOO' or 'Foo',
subject_contains='foo' //Returns items where subject contains 'foo',
subject_icontains, subject_startswith, and subject_istartswith.
Range Number of emails that you want to display in the output based on your search criteria.
If you do not specify the range then all the emails based on your search criteria are displayed.

Output

The JSON output contains the details of all emails that match with the search criteria that you have specified.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Search Email operation

operation: Send Email

Important: For this operation to work, you must have the FortiSOAR™ Built-in connector "cyops_utilities" version 2.0.1 installed on your system. For more information on FortiSOAR™ Built-in connectors, see FortiSOAR™ product documentation.

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Subject (Optional) Subject of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server.
TO Recipients (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members to whom you want to send the email message from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
For example, abc@xyz.com, def@lmn.com
Important: You must specify email ID(s) in at least one of the following fields: TO Recipients, CC Recipients, or BCC Recipients.
CC Recipients (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members to be added to the CC list of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
BCC Recipients (CSV / List Format): Email IDs of the members to be added to the BCC list of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
Body (Optional) Message or content of the email that you want to send from the Exchange server.
Attachment IRIs List (CSV / List Format) (Optional) List of IRI ID(s) of the file (s) that you want to attach to the email that you want to send from the Exchange server. IRI IDs are used to access files from the FortiSOAR™Attachments module.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the send email operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the email is successfully sent from the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Send Email operation

Included playbooks

The Sample - Exchange - 1.3.1 playbook collection comes bundled with the Exchange connector. This playbook contains steps using which you can perform all supported actions. You can see the bundled playbooks in the Automation > Playbooks section in FortiSOAR™ after importing the Exchange connector.

  • Calendar : Create Calendar Event
  • Calendar : Get Calendar Events
  • Contacts : Get Contacts
  • Email : Delete Email
  • Email : Get Unread Emails
  • Email : Mark Email as Read
  • Email : Move Email
  • Email : On poll - This is a playbook that periodically checks for new emails.
  • Email : Search Email
  • Email : Send Email
  • Email : Stop periodic playbook - This is a playbook that stops the On poll periodic playbook.

Note: If you are planning to use any of the sample playbooks in your environment, ensure that you clone those playbooks and move them to a different collection since the sample playbook collection gets deleted during connector upgrade and delete.

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About the connector

The Exchange connector provides a robust, platform-independent, and simple interface for communicating with Microsoft Exchange 2007-2016 Server or Office365 using Exchange Web Services (EWS).

This document provides information about the Exchange connector, which facilitates automated interactions, with an Exchange server using FortiSOAR™ playbooks. Add the Exchange connector as a step in FortiSOAR™ playbooks and perform automated operations, such as retrieving unread emails, moving or deleting emails from the Exchange server, sending an email from the Exchange server, or running a query on the Exchange server based on parameter (s) that you have specified.

Version information

Connector Version: 1.3.1

Compatibility with FortiSOAR™ Versions: 4.10.2-225 and later

Compatibility with Exchange Versions: Microsoft Exchange 2007-2016 Server or Office365

Authored By: Fortinet, Inc.

Certified: Yes

Release Notes for version 1.3.1

Following enhancements have been made to the Exchange Connector in version 1.3.1:

Installing the connector

All connectors provided by FortiSOAR™ are delivered using a FortiSOAR™ repository. Therefore, you must set up your FortiSOAR™ repository and use the yum command to install connectors:

yum install cyops-connector-exchange

For the detailed procedure to install a connector, click here.

Prerequisites to configuring the connector

Configuring the connector

For the procedure to configure a connector, click here.

Configuration parameters

In FortiSOAR™, on the Connectors page, select the Exchange connector and click Configure to configure the following parameters:

Parameter Description
Host Host name of the Exchange server to which you will connect and perform the automated operations.
Username Username to access the Exchange server/Office365 server.
For Exchange, add the username in the format Domain\Username.
Password Password to access the Exchange server.
Email Address Email address of the Exchange server that you are using.
Access Type Access type for the user.
Choose between Delegate or Impersonation.
Protocol Protocol that will be used to communicate, choose either http and https.
By default, this is set to https.
Use Autodiscover An alias account will work for the given account details.
Defaults to False.
Verify SSL Specifies whether the SSL certificate for the server is to be verified or not.
Defaults to True.

Actions supported by the connector

The following automated operations can be included in playbooks and you can also use the annotations to access operations from FortiSOAR™ release 4.10.0 onwards:

Function Description Annotation and Category
Create Calendar Event Creates an event in a calendar on the Exchange Server, based on input parameters, such as subject, from date and to date, you have specified. create_event
Investigation
Get Calendar Events Gets events from the calendar on the Exchange server, based on the filer criteria, such as subject, from time, and to time, you have specified. get_events
Investigation
Get Contacts Gets the contact list from the mailbox on the Exchange server. get_contacts
Investigation
Delete Email Deletes an email from a specified folder on the Exchange server, based on the input parameters, such as message ID and delete type, you have specified. delete_email
Investigation
Get Unread Emails Gets all unread emails from the Exchange server. You can also mark the retrieved Unread emails as Read. get_email
Investigation
Mark Email as Read Marks an unread email as read on the Exchange Server, based on the message ID you have specified.
Move Email Moves an email from a specified folder to a specified folder, based on the message ID and the source and destination folder you have specified. move_email
Miscellaneous
Search Email Runs a query on the Exchange server and searches emails, based on input parameters, such as folder name, email address, body, and subject, that you have specified. search_query
Investigation
Send Email Sends an email from the Exchange server.

operation: Create Calendar Event

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Subject Subject line of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Start Date Start date and time of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
End Date End date and time of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Required Attendees (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members who are required to attend the event. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
For example, @xyz.com, def@lmn.com
Optional Attendees (CSV / List Format) (Optional) Email IDs of the optional members who can attend the event. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
Body (Optional) Details of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Location (Optional) Location of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server.
Categories (CSV / List Format) (Optional) Category of the event that you want to create on the Exchange server. For example, Blue category, Green Category, etc.
Show As (Optional) Status of the attendees when they are attending this event. You can choose one of the following options: Free, Working elsewhere, Tentative, Busy, or OOF.
Reminder (Optional) Time before the event starts when you want to set a reminder for the attendees. You can choose one of the following options: 0 minutes, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hour, 3 hour, 4 hour, 8 hour, 12 hour, 1 day, 2 day, 3 day, 1 week, or 2 week.
Is All Day If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this sets the event as a full-day event.
By default, this is set to False.
Is Private If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this sets the event as a private event and it can be viewed only by its attendees.
By default, this is set to True.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the create calendar event operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the calendar event is successfully added on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Create Calendar Event operation

operation: Get Calendar Events

Input parameters

Note: All the input parameters are optional. However, if you do not specify any parameter, then no filter criteria is applied and an unfiltered list is returned.

Parameter Description
Subject Subject text based on which you want to filter events on the Exchange server.
From Time Start date and time from when you want to retrieve events from the Exchange server.
To Time End date and time till when you want to retrieve events from the Exchange server.

Output

The JSON output contains the retrieved events from the calendar on the Exchange server, based on the input parameters you have specified.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Calendar Events operation

operation: Get Contacts

Input parameters

None.

Output

The JSON output contains the retrieved contact list from the mailbox on the Exchange server.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Contacts operation

operation: Delete Email

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to delete.
Delete Type Type of Delete that you want to use to delete the email. You can choose from the following options: Soft Delete, Hard Delete, or Move To Trash.
Folder Name (Optional) Folder on the Exchange server from which you want to delete the email.
By default, this is set as Inbox.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the delete operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the email is successfully deleted from the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Delete Email operation

operation: Get Unread Emails

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Mark as Read If you select this option, i.e set it to True, then this operations retrieves the unread emails from the Exchange server and also marks these emails as Read.
By default this is set to True.

Output

The JSON contains details of all the unread mails retrieved from the Exchange server.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Get Unread Emails operation

operation: Mark Email as Read

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to mark as read.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the mark email as read operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the specified email is successfully marked as read on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Mark Email as Read operation

operation: Move Email

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Message ID ID of the email that you want to move.
Source Folder Source folder on the Exchange server from where you want to move the email.
Destination Folder Destination folder on the Exchange server to which you want to move the email.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the move operation. The JSON output returns a Successmessage if the email is successfully moved as per your specifications on the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Move Email operation

operation: Search Email

Input parameters

Note: All the input parameters are optional. However, if you do not specify any parameter, then no filter criteria is applied and an unfiltered list is returned.

Parameter Description
Folder Name Folder on the Exchange server based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Email Address Email address of the email message based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Subject Subject of the email message based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Body Content within the body of the email based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server.
Query Search parameters based on which you want to search emails on the Exchange server in form of a query.
Accepts input in the dictionary format.
For example, {'subject__icontains' : '365', 'datetime_received__gt' : '2018-01-20T18:30:00.000Z'}
You can also provide options such as:
subject__exact='foo' // Returns items where subject is 'foo'. Same as filter(subject='foo'),
subject__iexact='foo' // Returns items where subject is 'foo', 'FOO' or 'Foo',
subject_contains='foo' //Returns items where subject contains 'foo',
subject_icontains, subject_startswith, and subject_istartswith.
Range Number of emails that you want to display in the output based on your search criteria.
If you do not specify the range then all the emails based on your search criteria are displayed.

Output

The JSON output contains the details of all emails that match with the search criteria that you have specified.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Search Email operation

operation: Send Email

Important: For this operation to work, you must have the FortiSOAR™ Built-in connector "cyops_utilities" version 2.0.1 installed on your system. For more information on FortiSOAR™ Built-in connectors, see FortiSOAR™ product documentation.

Input parameters

Parameter Description
Subject (Optional) Subject of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server.
TO Recipients (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members to whom you want to send the email message from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
For example, abc@xyz.com, def@lmn.com
Important: You must specify email ID(s) in at least one of the following fields: TO Recipients, CC Recipients, or BCC Recipients.
CC Recipients (CSV / List Format) Email IDs of the members to be added to the CC list of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
BCC Recipients (CSV / List Format): Email IDs of the members to be added to the BCC list of the email message that you want to send from the Exchange server. You must add the email IDs in the csv or list format.
Body (Optional) Message or content of the email that you want to send from the Exchange server.
Attachment IRIs List (CSV / List Format) (Optional) List of IRI ID(s) of the file (s) that you want to attach to the email that you want to send from the Exchange server. IRI IDs are used to access files from the FortiSOAR™Attachments module.

Output

The JSON output contains the status of the send email operation. The JSON output returns a Success message if the email is successfully sent from the Exchange server or an Error message containing the reason for failure.

Following image displays a sample output:

Sample output of the Send Email operation

Included playbooks

The Sample - Exchange - 1.3.1 playbook collection comes bundled with the Exchange connector. This playbook contains steps using which you can perform all supported actions. You can see the bundled playbooks in the Automation > Playbooks section in FortiSOAR™ after importing the Exchange connector.

Note: If you are planning to use any of the sample playbooks in your environment, ensure that you clone those playbooks and move them to a different collection since the sample playbook collection gets deleted during connector upgrade and delete.

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