About the Microsoft Azure Blob Connector
The Microsoft Azure Blob connector allows you to index blobs with security. It supports all standard connectors capabilities; incremental and full crawls, security and metadata Provides context with details such as the source, type, owner, and relationships to other data sets. Metadata provides details around the item being crawled by Connectivity Hub..
Features
The BA Insight Microsoft Azure Blob connector:
- Indexes items organized in containers inside storage accounts
- Searchable content types
- Blobs
- Content update
Security
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Security trimming is achieved using user/group permissions and roles.
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For details see the table User Accounts and Application Permissions.
How to Add a New Role Assignment in a Container
To create a custom role in Azure, see Microsoft documentation.
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Then assign the role to your configured application.
To add a new role assignment in a container:
- Go to your storage account
- Select containers and select your desired container. (To add a role assignment directly to a storage account skip this step)
- Select Access Control (IAM), click Add > Add role assignment and choose the role assignment you want and the user/group to assign it to.
- Click Save.
Limitations
- Crawling file shares, tables and queues will not be supported with Azure blob connector
- Each connection Connection defines the how Connectivity Hub connects to your Source System (which contains your documents, graphics, etc.,).
Your Connection includes identifying elements such as: URL of the BA Insight web service connector you are using, (File Share connector, SharePoint Online connector, etc.), Authentication mode, User Accounts and Credentials, Database information (for database connectors) will connect to one account storage.
- To crawl multiple account stores, create multiple connections
- "Max paging size" setting for content sources is capped at 5000 for this connector.
- Any value higher than that will be considered 5000.