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title: Setup On-Premise Exchange Connection
slug: setup-on-premise-exchange-connection
createdAt: 2025-07-30T04:49:21.443Z
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## Configuring Activate for an On-Premises Exchange 2019+ Server

1. Log on to the Activate Server with permissions for remote PowerShell.
2. Open Activate Studio
3. Navigate to Resources\Exchange Servers.
4. Right click Exchange Servers and select Add New ExchangeResourceXXXX.
5. Enter the name of the new Exchange Server.
6. Select the new Exchange Server, in the parameters panel click **More**
7. Right click the Class parameter and select Override 
8. Double click the new overridden **Class **parameter to open the Class Reference dialog.
9. Change the Class field value to ExchangeResourceXXXX where XXXX is the version of Exchange Server you are configuring.
10. Add a URI parameter of type string and set the value to `http://<exchange server name>/powershell`
11. Right click the new Exchange Server Resource and click **All Tasks > Reset Cache**.  If the setup is correct the Version of Exchange and MailStores will be imported as parameters into Activate.
12. Restart Activate Studio and Activate Orchestrator to pick up the new configuration changes.