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The File System connector will crawl content from the file system location.
Introduction
The File System connector can scan and fetch the directories and documents of a file systemAzure Identity connector will crawl Azure identities (users and groups) from the specified Azure Active Directory and store them on a identity cache.
Environment and Access Requirements
Repository Support
The File System supports crawling the following the repositories
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This component has been officially tested on local Windows and Linux. |
Account Privileges
For the File System Azure Identity connector to be able to crawl the Aspire Worker nodes must be run with an account with read access to the directory to crawl.the identities from the Azure AD that corresponds to the domain specified in the connection, it needs that the specified credentials have enough permissions to read said identities from the directory.
MS Graph Application permissions needed:
- GroupMember.Read.All / Application
- User.Read.All / Application
Other Requirements
The Aspire Worker worker nodes must be running in the same machine where the file system repository is located or at least have access in the case of a file share. able to reach the Azure AD specified in the connection.
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This component has been officially tested on local Windows and Linux. |
Framework and Connector Features
Framework Features
| Name | Supported |
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| Content Crawling | yesno |
| Identity Crawling | noyes |
| Snapshot-based Incrementals | yesno |
| Non-snapshot-based Incrementals | noyes |
| Document Hierarchy | yesno |
Connector Features
The File System Azure Identity connector has the following features:
- Document filtering using include and exclude regex patterns.
- Static acls can be added the documents crawled
- Lower casing of retrieved identities.
- Adding a special "Everyone" group.
- Filtering out external groups.
Crawled Identities
The Azure Identity
Content Crawled
The File System connector is able to crawl the following objects:
| Name | Type | Metadata | Content Fetch & Extraction | Description |
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| Folder | container |
| NA | The directories of the file system. Each directory will be scanned to retrieve more directories or files |
| File | document |
| yes | The files contained by the directories in the crawled file system. |
Limitations
The File System Connector has the following limitations:
The connector does not retrieve the acls of the crawled documents| User | document |
| no | The users of the Azure AD. |
| Group | document |
| yes | The groups of the Azure AD. |
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Attributes for users typically contain the user GUID but may contain additional data. Attributes for groups typically contain their display name but may contain additional data. |
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