SharePoint Online connector release notes

The SharePoint Online connector can be downloaded from the Upland Right Answers portal. The following lists the enhancements and fixed issues that were implemented in a specific version of the SharePoint Connector.

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.4.1

System Enhancements

There are no system enhancements in this release.

Fixed issues

• If the sites.selected permission was used, security sync jobs Loads User and Group tables and executes the mapping based on the connector configuration. were failing with a 403 error.

• When multiple datastores were activated, incremental crawls Scanning and capturing only new data from all of your content sources. This data did not exist when the last crawl was run. were failing for the third and subsequently activated datastores.

• When performing the initial incremental crawl after activating a datastore, SharePoint Online list items were failing to be crawled.

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.4.0

System Enhancements

Feature	Description
Support Certificate-Based Authentication Without Local Admin Rights	When configuring the SharePoint Online connector using App Registration with Certificate Authentication, users previously needed Local Administrator rights to install the certificate into the Local Machine Trusted Root store (LocalMachine\Root). The connector has been enhanced to allow use of certificates installed in the Current User Personal Store (CurrentUser\My), removing the Local Administrator requirement. For more information, see Certificate-based authentication for SharePoint Online Connectors.
Azure Active Directory An identity and access management solution from Microsoft that helps organizations secure and manage identities for hybrid and multicloud environments. user synchronization enhancements	The SharePoint Online connector will now only synchronize specified users from Azure Active Directory A directory service for Windows domain networks. A hierarchical structure that stores information about objects on the network. Used to manage permissions and control access to critical network resources. that are included in groups from the SharePoint site as configured in the 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). Previously, The SharePoint connector would load all users from Azure Active Directory regardless of their usage.

Fixed issues

• If the SharePoint Online connector was throttled during a datastore load job Collects the logical division of your data (data stores) from the source system. Runs on a schedule Logs information according to log level set, the datastore load Collects the logical division of your data (data stores) from the source system. Runs on a schedule Logs information according to log level set job would not be completed. (1830099)

• The Sharepoint Service Administration role was missing during security sync Loads User and Group tables and executes the mapping based on the connector configuration., preventing all SharePoint Admins being granted access via the Site Admins setting. The SharePoint connector will not generate the “SharePoint Administration Group” in the search index Contains data from your source system. Your search application instance (Elasticsearch, SharePoint Online, etc.) contains the search indexes. One search index per content source.. (1821798)

• Security sync jobs were failing when auto enumerate was enabled on locked SharePoint Online sites. (1813033)

• In some scenarios, incremental crawls would continuously crawl the same folder in an infinite loop. (1812975/1797060)

• If a SharePoint page was published then unpublished, the last major published version was still being included in crawls. (1803840/1761835)

• SharePoint list item attachements with a "#" symbol in the name were not able to be crawled. (1793937)

• List items that were configured to be excluded in the content filter settings were being crawled. (1776282)

• Site collections that were configured as excluded were being listed as active in a datastore due to incorrect casing logic. (1776282)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.3.0

System Enhancements

There are no system enhancements in this release.

Fixed issues

• In some scenarios, security sync tasks were failing after a new datastore was added. (BAI-18076)

• The SITEURL filter was not crawling specified sub-sites. (BAI-17905)

• When running a datastore load task with the SharePoint Online connector, the task was successfully completed, but no results were returned. (BAI-17737)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.2.0

System Enhancements

There are no system enhancements in this release.

Fixed issues

• The SharePoint Online connector was not permitting username/password authentication when calling /sites/getAllSites. (BAI-17738)

• The SharePoint Online connector caps the parallel processing value to one below the maximum number of processing cores. When the value of the MaxDegreesOfParallelism setting in the web.config file was set to a number higher than the maximum number of processing cores, the connector was not automatically adjusting the value. (BAI-17701)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.1.0

System Enhancements

The following enhancements are new in this release of the SharePoint Online connector:

Enhancement	Description
Web.config enhancements	The following web.config settings are new in this release: You can now override your tenant name by specifying a vanity link for your SharePoint Online connector configuration with the "TenantName" setting. You can now enable or disable memory caching for security syncs for unified members, role members, and SharePoint members with the following settings: "EnableSecurityUnifiedMembersCaching" "EnableSecurityRoleMembersCaching" "EnableSecuritySharePointMembersCaching" You can now control the amount of memory caching that you want to allow for your connector with the MemoryCacheThreshold" setting. For more information, see configure the SharePoint Online connector using web.config.
Security Sync improvements	Security Sync tasks have been enhanced to improve performance and efficiency.

Fixed issues

• Crawling the AkuminaCentral datastore with a SharePoint Online connector produced an error. (BAI-16831)
• When performing a full crawl with a custom filter applied to specify a folder URL, the documents were not appearing in the crawl results. (BAI-16935)
• Authentication was failing when using vanity URLs for the tenant. (BAI-17258)

• If a SharePoint Online site was included in a security sync and then deleted in SharePoint Online, the subsequent security sync job would fail. (BAI-17260)

• The SharePoint Online connector was not correctly processing the Everyone except external users group when it was included as a child group. (BAI-17436)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.1.0.0

System Enhancements

The following enhancements are new in this release of the SharePoint Online connector:

Enhancement	Description
Certificate-based authentication for specified site collections	You can now grant the Sites.Selected permissions to restrict access only to the site collections you want to be indexed. For more information, see certificate-based authentication.
Document Library enumeration	The SharePoint Online connector now uses Microsoft Graph API to enumerate document libraries. This improves the performance of incremental crawls, as only document libraries that require recrawls will be crawled.

Fixed issues

• When a parent folder was deleted, items in child folders were not being reported as deleted in Connectivity Hub. (BAI-14516)
• When an incremental crawl was performed using the SharePoint Online connector, the connector was not logging and identifying document libraries that required a full recrawl. (BAI-15827)
• The SharePoint online connector did not support tenants with ".us" domains. For example, login.microsoftonline.us. (BAI-16521)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.0.9.0

System Enhancements

There are no system enhancements in this release.

Fixed issues

• When running a datastore load task from a throttled SharePoint Online connection, only a partial number of datastores were returned. A datastore load task will now either be successful with all datastores returned, or the task will fail. (BAI-15143)

• When adding custom filters for your content source Content Sources do the following: Receive data from the Source System via the Connection, Filter the data it receives, Provide the results to the Target, Define the specific search index that contains the content you wish to index (and later search)., the help text below the text box described the incorrect syntax for separating filters. (BAI-15840)

• If a folder in SharePoint had unique permissions applied, any subsequent child folders would not inherit those permissions during a crawl job. (BAI-16108)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.0.7.0

System Enhancements

There are no system enhancements in this release.

Fixed issues

• SharePoint Online connector crawls run from Connectivity Hub fail: Failed to resolve groups: NOTFOUND. (BAI-14313)

• Connector content filter options do not work. (BAI-14385)

• [Advisory] Security Sync missing Everyone except External users. (BAI-14422)

SharePoint Online Connector 2.0.5.0

System enhancements

• Documentation updated to reflect latest changes.

• Code optimization and caching enhancements.

• Multiple functional enhancements to handle different found cases as show in the issues list.

Fixed Issues

• Deleted sites cause Security Sync to fail if DataStore Load job is not run before the Security Sync job. (BAI-9685)

• The issue is in the "Content Filter" configuration of the SharePoint Online connector. the options are for "Item" and "Site". There is no option for Document objects, and this is not correct. (BAI-10492)
• Content Filter options do not "exclude" properly. (BAI-10493)
• The Site Collection title and Template ID filters behaving as though they are case sensitive, against the described behavior. (BAI-10904)
• Crawl times increased since last testing. (BAI-11222)
• Crawl URL from the index does not work when using it in Test Bench. (BAI-11339)
• Currency 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. is not retrieved when running crawls. (BAI-11340)
• Should be only one authentication call to Microsoft, but the authentication calls are happening constantly. (BAI-11399)
• How to Install the SharePoint Online Connector page has links which are incorrect. (BAI-11926)
• Deleted page not removed from index after incremental crawl. (BAI-12236)
• After running datastore types load Collects the types of data from your source system. Runs on a set schedule. Requires a log level which logs information and generating metadata “hrsectionsjson,” a column was created in the metadata mapping, but does not return data in test bench. (BAI-13908)