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a68tbird
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Resolver II

Get Source Data from Microsoft Exchange Public Folders

Hello All -

  Wonder if it is possible to connect to my Outlook Public Folders as my data source? The emails that I need to query are shipping notifications that are sent to one of our company generic email addresses. 

 

Thanks!

Travis

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v-yuezhe-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@a68tbird,

In Power BI Desktop, it doesn't support to connect to Exchange public folders , regarding to this issue , you can submit a feature request in Power BI ideas forum.

However, you can connect to shared mailboxes as described in this similar thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/182c1c88-15fc-4778-a3c4-049b479f826a/power-query-f... .

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
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v-yuezhe-msft
Microsoft Employee
Microsoft Employee

@a68tbird,

In Power BI Desktop, it doesn't support to connect to Exchange public folders , regarding to this issue , you can submit a feature request in Power BI ideas forum.

However, you can connect to shared mailboxes as described in this similar thread: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/182c1c88-15fc-4778-a3c4-049b479f826a/power-query-f... .

Regards,
Lydia

Community Support Team _ Lydia Zhang
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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