Some of the features of the SharePoint Online connector include:
Change Log Incremental
From version 3.3.0.1 incremental crawls using SharePoint's Change Log is available as an option in the connector's configuration.
The SharePoint Online connector retrieves several types of documents, listed below are the inclusions and exclusions of these documents.
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
Due to API limitations, SharePoint Online connector has the following limitations:
To use SharePoint Online Connector version 3.3, version 3.3.0.1 of the Aspire Connector Framework is required.
Change Log Incremental
From version 3.3.0.1 incremental crawls using SharePoint's Change Log is available as an option in the connector's configuration.
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
Anything we should add? Please let us know.
The connector uses the REST API over HTTP or HTTPs to acquire information of SharePoint Online content.
The connector acquires content by doing the following:
Find detailed information on MSDN article.
This is the hierarchy of processes/applications/sites/sub-sites/libraries/folders/and documents within SharePoint.
SharePoint Server
SharePoint Web Application Pool
SharePoint Web Application (single web application)
Main Site Collection (the primary or main site created for the web application, associated with the primary http://xyz.server.com URL)
Sub Sites
Document Libraries
Folders
Documents
Attachments
Other Site Collections
Sub Sites
Document Libraries
Folders
Documents
Attachments