Identifying Your SharePoint Environment
Before starting to deploy the Legacy connector, you must refer to the following table and identify the SharePoint environment type from which you want to index content (Classic, Claims, or Online).
Security Providers to Use
Your SharePoint environment to index determines the required security providers that you must create.
| SharePoint environment | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Required security provider type | Classic | Claims | Online |
| SharePoint | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Active Directory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Claims for SharePoint On-premises | ✓ | ||
| Claims for SharePoint Online | ✓ | ||
| Office 365 | ✓ | ||
Note: When you want to index content from different SharePoint environments, you must create multiple SharePoint security provider and source instances, each one with its own configuration.
Type of User to Specify for the User Identity
Your SharePoint environment to index determines the type of user that you must specify in a User Identity to allow the Legacy connector and security provider to crawl your SharePoint content.
| SharePoint environment | Enabled authentication | Type of user | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Classic | Windows | Windows account |
acme\john john@acme.com |
| Claims | Windows | Windows account |
acme\john john@acme.com |
| Form | Format expected by the login form | ||
| ADFS | Federated by ADFS | acme\john
john@acme.com |
|
| Online | Native | Native Office 365 account | john@acme.onmicrosoft.com |
| SSO | Single Sign-On Office 365 account | john@acme.com |
Note: You will create a User Identity with the credentials of the selected user. You will then assign the User Identity to one or more security providers and to the source.
What's Next?
Grant appropriate SharePoint permissions to the selected crawling account (see Granting SharePoint Permissions to the Crawling Account).