The SharePoint Online connector will crawl content from any SharePoint Online site collection URL. The connector will retrieve Sites, Lists, Folders,List Items and Attachments, as well as other pages (in .aspx format). This connector supports SharePoint running in the Microsoft O365 offering. Support for crawling the on-premise offerings of SharePoint are supported by SharePoint 2010/2007 Connector and SharePoint 2013 Connector.
This is not a O365 connector, the individual repository offerings within O365, such as OneDrive, Calendar, Tasks, Yammer will have their own connectors.
Some of the features of the SharePoint Online connector include:
The SharePoint Online connector retries several types of documents, listed bellow 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:
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
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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.