SharePoint Connector: Online User Profile Connection

Office 365 Account Page

Enter the Office 365 domain account details.

Setting Name

Description

Setting Name

Description

Office 365 domain name

Enter the Office 365 domain name

Office 360 domain description

Enter a description for the Office 365 credential source.  This is what will appear to users when they are prompted for their credentials from the web client search results page.

Azure Application Client ID

Enter the Azure Application Client ID you obtained during an earlier step when setting up the Windows Azure Graph API for Locator.

Azure Application Secret Key

Enter the Azure Application Secret Key you obtained during an earlier step when setting up the Windows Azure Graph API for Locator.

Office 365 account synchronized

Check the box if your Office 365 account is synchronized with your on-premises Active Directory

Enable Mixed Mode

Check this box if you wish to provide Forms Login for users that have failed to login using SSO.

Use security cache service

Check this box if you want to use background service that will query SharePoint to cache user tokens. Using this service can decrease the time used by security plugins.

Server Address

Address to the security cache service. Default value is recommended. You can change the security cache server address in the Via.SharePoint.SecurityService.exe.config.

Pause interval

Sets the time security cache service will wait before next run.

Single Sign-On Configuration Page

On this page you can configure Single Sign-On that allows users to get search hits from SharePoint Online connections without providing Office 365 credentials. Currently available options are:

  • E-mail mapping where authentication is based on matching user's primary SMTP address with E-mail address in Office 365.

  • ADFS with WS-Federation Protocol



Setting Name

Description

Setting Name

Description

ADFS endpoint address

Address to WS-Federation endpoint. Default
https://fs.[tenant].com/adfs/services/trust/13/usernamemixed

Relying Party ID

Default urn:federation:MicrosoftOnline

Name of attribute mapped to email

Default are UPN or Email

More details about WS-Federation settings can be found here.

Server Page

Address for SharePoint Online and the index user credentials.

Official support for Index User credentials has been deprecated as of August 2023. While the connector will continue to accept them as an option until further notice, the Azure AD Application option should be used instead.
For details, please consult FAQ - Deprecation of support for Index User credentials in Sharepoint Online and OneDrive connections

Setting Name

Description

Setting Name

Description

SharePoint Online URL

Enter the SharePoint Online URL

Connection Name

Enter the display name for the connection

Use application instead of index user

Check this box if you want use Azure AD Application to index documents

  • Important Note: Using this option requires Azure AD connector installed with connection configured to the same tenant.

SharePoint Online Index User

or

Application Client ID

Enter the index user account name using format user@domain.com.



Enter the Azure Application Client ID you obtained during an earlier step when Adding Permissions to the Azure AD Application for SharePoint Online indexing.

Password

or

Application Secret Key

The password of the index user.



Enter the Azure Application Secret Key you obtained during an earlier step when Adding Permissions to the Azure AD Application for SharePoint Online indexing.

Set up separate user/application for authentication and identification

Check this box if you want to use different index user/application for Authentication and Identification.

SharePoint Online Security User

or

Application Client ID

Enter the security user account name using format user@domain.com.



Enter the Azure Application Client ID.

Password

or

Application Secret Key

The password of the security user.



Enter the Azure Application Secret Key

Multiple Index Users Configuration

This page allows you to set up additional users/applications to index data from SharePoint.

  • Important Note: Every additional index user should have the same permissions as the primary index user.

Finalize Page

Upon completion of the Locator SharePoint Connection, the Locator Server will be ready for scheduling the SharePoint connection for indexing.  As soon as the connection wizard is finished, you will return to the SharePoint connections overview in the Management Console.  You can click the "Schedule" option to configure the schedule for the connection.



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