This tutorial walks through the steps necessary to crawl SharePoint 2016 using the SharePoint 2016 connector.
A prerequisite for crawling SharePoint 2016 is to have a Windows Active Directory account. The domain, username and password for this account will be required below.
The recommended name for this account is "aspire_crawl_account". See prerequisites section for more details.
"aspire_crawl_account" will need to have sufficient access rights to read all of the documents in SharePoint 2013 that you wish to process. See User Account Requirements for details on what rights will be required for the account in SharePoint.
To set the rights for your account at Web Application level, do the following:
To set the rights for your "aspire_crawl_count" on site collections, do the following:
Now that the content source is set up, the crawl can be initiated.
The status will show RUNNING while the crawl is going, and CRAWLED when it is finished.
If there are errors, you will get a clickable "Error" flag that will take you to a detailed error message page.
If you only want to process content updates from the SharePoint 2016 (documents which are added, modified, or removed), then click on the "Incremental" button instead of the "Full" button. The SharePoint 2016 connector will automatically identify only changes which have occurred since the last crawl.
If this is the first time that the connector has crawled, the action of the "Incremental" button depends on the exact method of change discovery. It may perform the same action as a "Full" crawl crawling everything, or it may not crawl anything. Thereafter, the Incremental button will only crawl updates.
Group expansion configuration is done on the "Advanced Connector Properties" of the Connector tab.