The second generation SharePoint connector has been completely rewritten to provide similar features as the SharePoint Legacy connector with the bonus of a significantly improved crawling performance thanks to multi-threading and optimized API communications. For supported SharePoint versions, Coveo recommends to use the new SharePoint connector to create or migrate SharePoint sources.

The following table highlights the differences between the two connectors.

Features		Supported	Additional information
SharePoint version		2010, 2013, 2016, Online, Foundation 2010, and Foundation 2013
Searchable content types			Farms (tenants in SharePoint Online), Web applications, site collections, sites, user profiles*, personal websites*, lists, list items, list item attachments, document libraries, document sets, documents, Web parts1, and microblog posts and replies.
Content update	Incremental refresh		Full refresh or rebuild is needed to retrieve deleted user profiles1.
	Full refresh
	Rebuild
Document-level security

* - Not available in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

1 - Not all Web parts are available in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (see Overview of Web Parts available in SharePoint Foundation 2010).

• Content indexing

  • Indexing all SharePoint content

    • Farms (tenants in SharePoint Online) and Web Applications

    • Site collections, websites, and subsites

    • Lists, list items, and list item attachments

      Note: CES 7.0.8225+ (March 2016) SharePoint Online lists, list items, and list item attachments are indexed.

    • Document libraries, documents, and document sets

    • User profiles and personal websites

      Note: User profiles and personal websites are not available in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation.

    • Microblog posts and replies

    • CES 7.0.7022+ (September 2014) Web Parts Pages [more]

      Note: Not all Web parts are available in Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 (see Overview of Web Parts available in SharePoint Foundation 2010).

    • CES 7.0.7022+ (September 2014) Social tags [more]

  • HTTP over SSL (HTTPS) support

    You can use the SharePoint connector to index a SharePoint site that uses HTTPS.

• Security

  The SharePoint connector supports security for SharePoint Web Applications using Classic Mode or Claims Based authentication.

  • Classic Mode

    The connector indexes permissions on SharePoint items as SharePoint groups and Windows accounts.

    • When a user performs a query, returned results are only those to which his Windows account has access.

    • Users can perform queries from any Coveo search interface.

  • Claims Based (Windows [NTLM or Kerberos], ADFS)

    The connector indexes permissions on SharePoint items as SharePoint groups and Claims.

    • When a user performs a query, returned results are only those with permissions that match any of the Claims assigned to the user after he is successfully authenticated in SharePoint.

    • Users can perform queries from any Coveo .NET Front-End search interface:

      • When searching from within SharePoint using the Coveo search box, the user is already authenticated in SharePoint and his Claims are available to the Coveo search interface. This means that search queries can be performed using the Claims assigned to the user.

      • Claims users can also perform searches for secured SharePoint content from Coveo search interfaces outside SharePoint without having to log in to the search interface when the search interface is configured for SSO (see Manually Configuring a .NET Search Interface Claims SSO for an On-Premises SharePoint).

    • CES 7.0.9093+ (September 2017) Users can perform queries from any Coveo JavaScript search interface (see Coveo JavaScript Search Framework and Allowing a JavaScript Search Page to Retrieve SharePoint Claims).

• Incremental refresh

  Once incremental refresh is enabled on a SharePoint source, the SharePoint connector automatically refreshes the content modified since the last incremental refresh run. This way, the index is always kept up to date (see Scheduling a Source Incremental Refresh).

  Notes:

  • CES 7.0.9434+ (September 2018) A change in the URI of SharePoint documents will cause an incremental refresh to add duplicate documents to your index. A full refresh (recommended) or rebuild is required to remove those duplicates and prevent the issue from happening again.

  • CES 7.0.8541+ (September 2016) The incremental refresh takes account of added and modified user profiles. A source full refresh or rebuild is required to update deleted user profiles.

  • CES 7.0.8388– (June 2016) The incremental refresh does not take account of user profile changes.

• SharePoint Integration:

  • Installation of Coveo Web Service on the SharePoint server to provide more crawling functions

  • Installation of the Coveo search box to replace the SharePoint search box

  • Installation of Coveo search interfaces on the SharePoint server

• Intranet and SharePoint search interface features related to the SharePoint connector:

  • Search results folding for the following SharePoint items:

    • Blog posts and their comments

    • Discussion board threads

    • Document sets and their items

  • The Document Sets facet appears, listing all document sets included in the results when one or more document set items match the query.

  • Search results referring to a document link in SharePoint are now identified with a special icon.

• CES 7.0.9272+ (March 2018) Okta single sign-on authentication is supported (see Okta Single Sign-On Provider for SharePoint On-Premises).