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 2.1.1.0

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 Loads User and Group tables and executes the mapping based on the connector configuration. 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 Loads User and Group tables and executes the mapping based on the connector configuration. 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 Scanning and capturing only new data from all of your content sources. This data did not exist when the last crawl was run., 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

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