OneDrive Connector Prerequisites

Connector Features and Requirements

Features

Supported

Additional Information

 Version O365 Cloud-based
Searchable Content Types Yes

The One Drive connector enables:

  • Connecting to OneDrive
  • Fetching data from any:
    • site
    • document library
    • list
      • Indexing this content securely

By default the connector omits some system level properties typically not needed for indexing purpose.

  • If you want to change the list of omitted properties:
    • Edit theConnector'sweb.configfile to specify which properties should be returned.
Content Update Full and Incremental All BA Insight Connectors support bothFullandIncrementalcrawls, unless noted.
Permission Types Yes

All BA Insight Connectors support fetch ACLs from the source system.

To make itemspublicorrestrictedto a single user or set of users, you can do so within theConnector Framework.

Required Software

.NET Framework v4.7.2

SharePoint Azure App

Certificate

AActive DirectoryAzure App must beregistered with Azureand must have permissions as described in the table below.
See "How to Verify SharePoint Connector Azure API Permissions" to add permissions to the registered app.

Certificate Details:

  • A certificate is required
  • The SharePoint Online Connector supports certificate authentication only
  • Self-signed certificates may be used

User Accounts and Application Permissions

Required Permission

Description

Azure

You must have access to the Azure Portal site and permission tocreate and manage Azure app registrations.

Azure App permissions 

The OneDrive connector supports bothauthentication mechanisms:

The permissions required for each mechanism is detailed below.

If you choose to authenticate using username and password, take into consideration that the account must be granted access to any OneDrive instance you want to crawl, one-by-one. 

There is no way to automatically grant access to all OneDrive instances. 

This method will work when crawling small numbers of OneDrive instances however certificate based authentication may be more appropriate for larger numbers of OneDrive instances.

Windows

The account used to run the connector:

  • Must be alocal Administratoron the server.
  • Cannot be any of the built-in service accounts (NetworkService,local machine, etc.)
Recommendations: Loading Users and Groups

When indexing a tenancy containing thousands of site collections, BA Insight recommends using a master security connection to load all users and groups for all site collections in tenancy into a single master security map.

You can then create specific connections to split all the site collections to index into more manageable pieces and reference the master security map for users and groups.

Non-Supported Features

The Connector  does not have the ability to remove items from the Index when List folders are deleted.  It is recommended to run a Full Crawl periodically to remove these items.  All other delete functions are supported.