MS SharePoint Connector Release Notes

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Version 2.9.17

September 25, 2024, Supported Locator version(s): 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-5144 Sharepoint Connector - filtering by site does not work properly
  • CFD-5132 Sharepoint Connector - incremental/changeset scan breaks
  • CFD-5128 Sharepoint Connector - fix site filtering on the beginning of scan
  • CFD-5126 The open option for onedrive email attachments behaves as if download had instead been selected
  • CFD-5115 Sharepoint Connector - expired application secret causes auth plugin issues.
  • CFD-5103 Sharepoint Connector - ServerUnauthorizedAccessException when crawling hidden sites items
  • CFD-5102 Sharepoint Connector - connector retrieves wrong SIDs for given item
  • CFD-5065 SharePoint Online - AuthRealm not created when configuring a new connection
  • CFD-5051 SharePoint Online - Huge gap in number of documents found between using Incremental Mode VS Full scan
  • CFD-4949 SharePoint Online - Connector trusts SharePoint Search to always return requested number of rows
  • CFD-4880 SharePoint Connector - GhostTracking is called on a lot of items after resuming crawl
  • CFD-4824 SharePoint Connector - GhostTracking throws NullReferenceException for OneDrive connection

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-5039 SharePoint Connector - Investigate high CPU usage

Version 2.9.16

October 21, 2022, Supported Locator version(s): 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4712 SharePoint Connector - Fix issue with Azure Groups caching
  • CFD-4664 SharePoint connector error: The property or field 'WebTemplate' has not been initialized

Version 2.9.15

March 22, 2022, Supported Locator version(s): 2.11

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-4580 SharePoint Connector - Migrate from legacy Azure Active Directory Graph API to Microsoft Graph API

Version 2.9.14

March 11, 2022, Supported Locator version(s): 2.11

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-4573 SharePoint Connector - Do not index "For internal use only" content type

Version 2.9.13

March 03, 2022, Supported Locator version(s): 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4555 SharePoint Connector - Item type is not taken into account when checking minimal permission kind to view the item.

Version 2.9.12

November 29, 2021, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4381 SharePoint Connector - Incremental Mode does not update group membership information.
  • CFD-4380 SharePoint Connector - CheckExists return FOUND on items for which index user cannot retrieve security information.

Version 2.9.11

November 09, 2021, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4424 Sharepoint Connector - under certain conditions, search query can be an empty string

Version 2.9.10

October 15, 2021, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4364 SharePoint fetch goes into infinite loop
  • CFD-4339 Sharepoint connector admin wizard - can no longer query more than 3000 sites
  • CFD-4226 SharePoint Online - Discovery trying to perform requests against site that isn't in IncludeSites list
  • CFD-4129 SharePoint Connector - Throttling is not handled when downloading files.
  • CFD-4121 Sharepoint connector - excessive memory usage / memory leak

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-4350 Better handling of Sharepoint returning HTTP 401s for deleted sites

Version 2.9.9

January 27, 2021, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11, 3.0

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-4066 SharePoint Connector - Plugins fail due to Office 365 end of support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1
  • CFD-4001 Sharepoint connector - SharepointNodeFinder Access denied

Version 2.9.8

November 20, 2020, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11, 3.0

Improvements

  • CFD-3953 SharePoint Connector - Introduce option to index in increment only mode.
  • CFD-3618 SharePoint - Add option for parallel site collection indexing

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3965 SharePoint Connector - Fix issue with deserialization when getting Access Token
  • CFD-3931 SharePoint Online - Document profile - Unable to complete discovery (2-3 weeks)

Version 2.9.7

October 16, 2020, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11

Improvements

  • CFD-3897 SharePoint Connector - Add option to use application instead of index user.
  • CFD-3857 SharePoint User Profile - CheckExists uses 2 days to complete
  • CFD-3751 Connectors - Add metadata text and document text fields merging rule

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3903 Sharepoint OneDrive - SourceReference not being updated
  • CFD-3902 Sharepoint OneDrive - Problem investigating content type fields

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-3766 Connectors - Set author and modified by fields

Version 2.9.6

June 24, 2020, Supported Locator version(s): 2.10, 2.11, 3.0

Improvements

  • CFD-3787 Update Office365 Artifacts

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-3780 SharePoint Connector - Create Fetch Diagnostics tool and add time measurements
  • CFD-3769 SharePoint Connector - Update log information

Version 2.9.5

April 01, 2020, Supported Locator version(s): 2.9, 2.10, 2.11, 3.0

Improvements

  • CFD-3691 SharePoint Connector - Add support to retrieve connection specific properties (with values) to filter which sites collection to index
  • CFD-3688 Sharepoint - retrieve unique Sharepoint document ID (or GUID)

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3735 SharePoint Connector - Fix Unauthorized fetch errors caused by redirects
  • CFD-3703 SharePoint Connector - Fix issue with index user validation log messages

Version 2.9.4

January 16, 2020, Supported Locator version(s): 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3626 Sharepoint On-Premises: connecting to SharePoint 2019 results in "Unsupported SharePoint Version: 0.0.0"
  • CFD-3612 Sharepoint - Mixedmode is always set to true whenever wizard is re-runned

Tasks Completed

  • CFD-3558 Sharepoint - Replace document_fileext with sp_filetype if empty

Version 2.9.3

December 19, 2019, Supported Locator version(s): 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3606 SharePoint Online - Crawling stops due to missing access to 1 or more site collections?
  • CFD-3605 Sharepoint connector - problem with Taxonomy
  • CFD-3531 SharePoint connector missing sp_fileref
  • CFD-3509 Sharepoint connector - connection setup stops when loading site collection
  • CFD-2136 SharePoint Connector - Wizard displays document connection pages during User Profile setup
  • CFD-1748 SharePoint Wizard Exclusion check boxes not set correctly after upgrade

Version 2.9.2

November 19, 2019, Supported Locator version(s): 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3529 SharePoint Online - Unable to authenticate user even thought it's matched with a O365 accounts
  • CFD-3528 SharePoint Connector - Taxonomy errors pollute log files

Version 2.9.1

November 08, 2019, Supported Locator version(s): 2.8, 2.9, 2.10, 2.11

Improvements

  • CFD-3504 SharePoint Online - Add support for Email mapping(1) and ADFS (2) for Trusted Authentication

Bugs Fixed

  • CFD-3529 SharePoint Online - Unable to authenticate user even thought it's matched with a O365 accounts
  • CFD-3495 SharePoint connector could not get changes for site using last token: The property or field 'UniqueId' has not been initialized.

Version 2.9.0

Bugs

  • CFD-3395 Sharepoint Online - Forms login fallback not working when SSO in use
  • CFD-3381 SharePoint Connector - online user validation fails after upgrade
  • CFD-3380 SP Connector consumes up to 29GB of RAM crawling one collection
  • CFD-3197 SharePoint Connector - SP On-Prem PullChanges loop failed

Tasks

  • CFD-2415 Move SharePoint Connector to Rapid SDK

Version 2.8.33

Bugs

  • CFD-3248 SharePoint Connector - Throws 404 on existing files which include "#" hashtag or "%" percentage in filename

Version 2.8.32

Improvements

  • CFD-3270 SharePoint Connector - Update Site Collection Sets Page to work with site templates

Bugs

  • CFD-3291 SharePoint Connector - On premise Site Collection is missing root site
  • CFD-3248 SharePoint Connector - Throws 404 on existing files which include "#" hashtag or "%" percentage in filename
  • CFD-3245 SharePoint Connector - Throws FATAL at end(question) of FULL SCAN
  • CFD-3238 Sharepoint Online - SSO authentication slow
  • CFD-2885 SharePoint Connector - Index Data setting disables indexing on other SP connections

Version 2.8.31

Improvements

  • CFD-3124 SharePoint Online - Slow CheckExist
  • CFD-3187 Sharepoint Online - Add a lookup for Template ID's

Bugs

  • CFD-3242 SharePoint Connector - Stops fullscan after FATAL
  • CFD-1872 SharePoint Connector - Review included/excluded logic for Content Types

Version 2.8.30

Important Note: This version fixes issue with SharePointMinBackoffInterval connection setting where sometimes this setting was saved with different decimal separator than period in the database. After upgrading to this version (or newer) review your existing connections and make sure that all SharePointMinBackoffInterval settings use period as decimal separator. You can do either directly in the database or edit the connection through Admin Wizard. Keep in mind that if you choose to use the second option Admin Wizard will show incorrect value that has to be changed for example it will show 5 when the setting in database is stored as 0,5.

Improvements

  • CFD-3027 SharePoint Connector - Use IDs instead of names in rules
  • CFD-2153 SharePoint Connector - Make all localized metadata fields searchable

Bugs

  • CFD-3162 SharePoint Connector - Invalid URI: The URI is empty
  • CFD-3141 SharePoint Online - Single sign-on authentication times out
  • CFD-3059 SharePoint Connector - Using '.' in Wizard for Backoff Interval doesn't work

New feature

  • CFD-3115 SharePoint Connector - SSO Azure AD add support to E-mail matching

Version 2.8.29

Bugs

  • CFD-3141 SharePoint Online - Single sign-on authentication times out
  • CFD-3140 SharePoint Connector - Authentication error with Azure to obtain security group setting enabled

Version 2.8.28

Improvements

  • CFD-3010 SharePoint Connector - Add Support for mixed Sharepoint and O365 groups
  • CFD-3007 SharePoint Connector - Improve throttling handling

Bugs

  • CFD-3154 SharePoint Connector - Fix SubSites page failing on connection edit.
  • CFD-3060 Sharepoint Connector - Not indexing comments from a sharepoint site
  • CFD-2985 SharePoint Connector - Fatal during discovery object moved

New Feature

  • CFD-3123 SharePoint Connector - Add option to index Communication Sites

Version 2.8.27

Improvements

  • CFD-3008 SharePoint Connector - Add option to include only selected sites
  • CFD-3020 SharePoint Connector - Improve spin-up time after FATAL
  • CFD-2995 SharePoint Connector - Add Email file handling to SharePoint rules
  • CFD-2040 Sharepoint Online - Support ADFS single sign-on
  • CFD-3019 SharePoint Connector - Add support for Norwegian date format

Bugs

  • CFD-3018 SharePoint Online connector - Subsites not discovered in wizard
  • CFD-3001 SharePoint Connector - Excluding root site collection excludes all root site collections on all webs

Version 2.8.26

Bugs

  • CFD-3028 SharePoint Connector - Rules not applied to Event after content type was changed to appointment
  • CFD-2998 SharePoint Connector - User is authenticated twice in Office365AuthPlugin.
  • CFD-2992 SharePoint Connector - Sleeps for On-Premises connections
  • CFD-2991 SharePoint Connector - Does not discover all sites.
  • CFD-2972 SharePoint Online - Discovery does not resume from previous location

Version 2.8.25

Improvements

  • CFD-2851 Sharepoint Online - Option to skip page "Exclude subsites" if you are dealing with high number of site collections
  • CFD-2788 Implement IUploadAction in SharePoint connector
  • CFD-2714 SharePoint Connector - Add option to include/exclude selected OneDrive/MySites

Bugs

  • CFD-2937 SharePoint connector unable to release TCP/IP connections - excessive TIME_WAIT
  • CFD-2925 Preview fails for SharePoint connector

Tasks

  • CFD-2750 Publish Connectors to Connectors 2.9 Feed based on SDK 1.5
  • SDK-280 Publish Connectors to Connectors 2.10 Feed based on SDK 1.6

Version 2.8.24

Improvements

  • CFD-2814 SharePoint Connector - Change Event document_doctype to Appointment
  • CFD-2834 Add "CanUpload" setting to Sharepoint connection setup wizard.
  • CFD-2754 SharePoint Connector - Add support for multiple index users

Bugs

  • CFD-2850 Sharepoint Online - Unable to retrieve more than 300 site collections
  • CFD-2822 Sharepoint - SocketException error
  • CFD-2808 SharePoint Connector - Uses invalid date as event_date

Tasks

  • CFD-2843 Release SharePoint Connector to SDK 1.3-1.6 feeds

Version 2.8.23

Improvements

  • CFD-2135 SharePoint Connector - Set event date for Events
  • CFD-2134 SharePoint Connector - Change start and end time of Events from string to datetime
  • CFD-1714 Option to Exclude Lists from OneDrive for Business Connections
  • CFD-2658 SharePoint Connector - add support for proxies
  • CFD-2505 SharePoint Connector - Introduce option to configure a separate index user for authentication and indentification

Bugs

  • CFD-2699 SharePoint Connector - Fix issues with proxy support
  • CFD-2092 SharePoint connector - Not indexing attachments from lists

Version 2.8.22

Bugs

  • CFD-2643 SharePoint Connector - Fix Subsites Page showing only one site in Online version.
  • CFD-2425 SharePoint Connector - issue with the "RegionalSettings" property

Tasks

  • CFD-2504 SharePoint Connector - Add support for indexing a set of site collections

Version 2.8.21

Bugs

  • CFD-2626 HOTFIX: Cannot add new online connections in SharePoint online

Version 2.8.20

Bugs

  • CFD-2607 SharePoint Connector - Fix SharePoint common test project
  • CFD-2602 SharePoint Connector - Remove .unobfuscated from HintPaths of common test project
  • CFD-2422 SharePoint Connector - Set document_filename in the Index Rules
  • CRF-2219 SharePoint Connector - Address sharepoint throttling

Version 2.8.19

Bugs

  • CFD-2273 Sharepoint Online - Trusted auth creates duplicates of users in search.user table (different casing on usernames)

Version 2.8.17

Tasks

  • CFD-2192 SharePoint Connector - Update site collection information in Admin Wizard
  • CFD-2190 SharePoint Connector - Release 2.8.17
  • CFD-2068 SharePoint Connector - ChangeSet SoapServerException issue

Version 2.8.16

Improvements

  • CFD-1783 SharePoint Connector - Add multi language support
  • CFD-1784 SharePoint Connector - Add support for new hit fields in RestService version 6

Bugs

  • CFD-2057 SharePoint Connector - URL copied to document_filename
  • CFD-2131 SharePoint Connector - Fix incorrect title when SharePoint fields are localized

Tasks

  • CFD-2152 SharePoint Connector - Release version 2.8.16

Version 2.8.15

Improvements

  • CFD-2108 Sharepoint connector - Trusted Authentication: Revise method that retrieves User Info to using CAML or a better alternative

Tasks

  • CFD-2107 SharePoint Connector - Save Index User Credentials at Mysite Server Page

Version 2.8.14

Improvements

  • CFD-2072 Sharepoint connector - Add support for Trusted Authentication

Tasks

  • CFD-2106 SharePoint Connector - Release version 2.8.14


Version 2.8.13

Bugs

  • CFD-2003 SharePoint Connector - Date Parse Failed
  • CFD-1998 Sharepoint - Release using latest SDKs to fix upgrade issue on MSSQL backend

Tasks

  • CFD-2067 SharePoint Connector - Release version 2.8.13



Version 2.8.12

Bugs

  • CFD-1433 SPO SIDs include group user is not apart of


Version 2.8.11

Tasks

  • CFD-1800 SharePoint Connector - Implement plugin system
  • CFD-1853 SharePoint Connector - Create and set license identifier for Ecspand plugin
  • CFD-1903 SharePoint Connector - Create Ecspand plugin
  • CFD-1919 SharePoint Connector - Release next version


Version 2.8.9

Bugs

  • CFD-1725 Sharepoint - Update SharePoint Client version back to 15 for support tools
  • CFD-1668 SharePoint: Error saving configuration
  • CFD-1530 SharePoint - Does not index files of hidden content types

Tasks

  • CFD-1782 Sharepoint - Release version 2.8.9.0


Version 2.8.8 

Bugs

  • CFD-1669 Slow fetching when there are many deduplication items

Version 2.8.7.0 

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a fatal crash that could occur if an object's author was undefined
  • Reverted to version 15 of the Sharepoint API to fix a connection issue
  • Fixed a time zone issue that led to incorrect Created dates
  • Fixed an issue with previews
  • Fixed an issue that made documents' title not searchable
  • Fixed a naming issue

New Features

  • Site collections are now indexable in SharePoint Online
  • Added thumbnails for user profiles
  • Support for the card view in the upcoming 2.8 version
  • Added support for AzureAD

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