Features
The SharePoint connector will crawl content from any SharePoint site collection URL that you specify. The connector will retrieve Sites, Lists, Folders, and List Items, as well as other pages (in .aspx format).
The connector uses web services to access SharePoint database(s) directly; it doesn't do web crawling. Some of the features of the SharePoint connector include:
- Performs incremental crawling (so that only new/updated documents are indexed)
- Fetches access control lists (ACLs) for document level security
- Is search engine independent
- Runs from any machine with access to the given SharePoint URLs
- Supports NTLM and HTTPs
- Supports site discovery
- Supports Claims Users and Groups
- Designed for supporting early binding mechanisms
- Optionally, can run without installing anything on SharePoint (with important limitations)
- Regular expression patterns for files to include / exclude
Future Development Plan
The following features are not currently implemented, but are on the development plan:
Anything we should add? Please let us know.