Features

Some of the features of the SharePoint 2010 connector include:

• Performs incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
• Fetches access control lists (ACLs) for document level security
• Is search engine independent
• Runs from any machine with access to the given SharePoint URLs
• Supports NTLM and HTTPs
• Supports site discovery
• Supports Claims Users and Groups
• Designed for supporting early binding mechanisms
• Optionally, can run without installing anything on SharePoint (with important limitations)
• Regular expression patterns for files to include / exclude

Content Retrieved

The SharePoint 2010 connector retrieves several types of documents. Listed below are the inclusions of these documents.

Include

• Sites
• Lists
• Folders
• Documents or List Items
• Attachments

ListItems can take a number of different formats. For example, documents (pdf, doc, ppt, etc), calendar events or announcements. For more info on how ListItems content types work go to the MSDN article.

Limitations 

Due to API limitations, SharePoint 2010 connector has the following limitations:

• The connector uses web services to access SharePoint database(s) directly; it doesn't do web crawling.

Future Development Plan 

The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:

• Automatic metadata propagation

  From site "about" pages to all of the files within the site

• Index and support people search

Anything we should add? Please let us know.