Basic SharePoint Connector Configuration

After displaying the Crawling -> Configuration panel for the SharePoint seed in the Watson™ Explorer Engine administration tool, you can configure the following options for connecting to your SharePoint installation:

• Sharepoint Version (optional) - The version of Sharepoint to crawl.
• Protocol (optional) - What protocol to use when contacting the Sharepoint server.
• Use SID as ACL (optional) - When enabled, Windows SIDs will be used as the ACLs.
• Add Site Collection Administrators as ACL (optional) - When enabled, Site Collection Administrators will be given access to all the content in the site collection.
• Crawl profile information of personal sites (optional) - When enabled, profile information (My Profile) of personal sites will be crawled.
• Crawl all versions (optional) - When enabled, all versions of a document will be crawled. Otherwise, just the latest version of the document will be crawled.
• Authentication Type (optional) - What authentication mechanism to use when contacting the Sharepoint server.
• Kerberos Configuration (optional) - The name and location of the Kerberos configuration file e.g. C:\exampleKerb\krb5.ini or /usr/local/examplekerb/krb5.conf
• JAAS Login Configuration (optional) - The name and location of the JAAS Login configuration file e.g. C:\exampleKerb\login.conf or /usr/local/examplekerb/login.conf