CRM Online E-mail Router and Exchange Online

Check out this post for specific instructions on how to configure the CRM Online E-mail Router to work with Microsoft Exchange Online.  For additional deployment scenarios, download the document titled "Microsoft Dynamics CRM: How to configure the On-premise and Online E-mail Router in different deployment scenarios".

In this post I will document how to configure the CRM Online E-mail Router to work with Exchange Online to support my E-mail to Case scenario.

Configure the Incoming E-mail profile

Exchange Online - Inbound

Configure the Outgoing E-mail profile

  • Profile Name: Exchange Online – Outgoing
  • Direction: Outgoing
  • E-mail Server Type: ExchangeOnline
    • Authentication Type: Clear Text
  • Location: https://autodiscover-red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/ews/exchange.asmx
  • Access Credentials: Other Specified
    • Profile: Administrator
      Note:
      If you select Administrator as the user type, the E-mail Router can use the specified credentials to connect to any mailbox within the Exchange Online tenant to send E-mail messages.
    • I entered my Exchange Online credentials which have Administrative rights
    • Access Type: Impersonation

Exchange Online - Outbound 

Configure the CRM Deployment for E-mail Router Connectivity

  • Deployment: Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online
  • Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server: https://dev.crm.dynamics.com/OrgName
  • Access Credentials: Other Specified
    • I entered my Exchange Online credentials which have Administrative rights
  • Default Configuration Profiles:
    • Incoming: Exchange Online – Incoming
    • Outgoing: Exchange Online – Outgoing

Deployment Tab

Configure the CRM Online users and/or queues to use the E-mail Router

  • E-mail Access Configurations:
    • E-mail access type – Incoming: E-mail Router
    • E-mail access type – Outgoing: E-mail Router

E-mail Router User

Confirm your configurations

  • Click on the Users, Queues, and Forward Mailboxes tab and click Load Data
    Note: Users and Queues configured in CRM to use the Email Router in the previous step will be the only values displayed.

Test Access

  • Click on Test Access to test your configurations

image Queues

In my next post I will demonstrate E-mail to Case using the E-mail Router.

-eBoo