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Adding the SharePoint Website Read Permission

You must add the SharePoint site Read permission to the crawling account when you want to:

  • Perform SharePoint personal site and user profile indexing.

  • Take advantage of the automatic permission setup feature of the SharePoint connector (see Automatic Permissions Setup).

The procedure applies to SharePoint 2013, 2010, and 2007 and varies depending on the SharePoint version:

Microsoft SharePoint 2013 or 2010

  1. Access the SharePoint site collection that you want to index.

  2. Click the gear icon (SharePoint 2013) or the Site Actions (SharePoint 2010), and then select Site Permissions.

  3. In the ribbon, click Grant Permissions.

  4. In the Grant Permissions dialog box:

    1. In the Users/Groups text box, add the crawling account.

    2. Under Grant Permissions, select the Grant users permission directly radio button, and then select the Read - Can view pages and list items and download documents check box.

    3. Click OK.

Microsoft SharePoint 2007

  1. Access the SharePoint site collection site collection that you want to index.

  2. Click Site Actions, and then select Site Settings.

  3. Click Advanced Permissions in the Users and Permissions column.

  4. Click New.

  5. In the Add Users page:

    1. In the Users/Groups text box, add the crawling account.

    2. Under Give Permission, select the Give users permission directly radio button, and then select the Read - can view only check box.

    3. Click OK.

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