FAQs

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Is incremental indexing supported by the connector?

Yes. At the moment, this is done by accessing SharePoint 2013 changes database directly, so after a full scan the connector will only fetch objects that changes in a given date range (since the last scan and the current scan).

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For a discussion on crawling, see here.

Why do I need to set up permissions at Web Application level?

Those permissions ("Full Read") are required so the connector can fetch additional information from site collections. This information is required for incremental indexing.

If setting permissions at Web Application level is not suitable to your environment, consider setting site collection administrator rights to the crawler account on each site collection you want to crawl. (This will work without Web App permissions, but has to be set on every site collection.)

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