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Version: 4.45.0

SharePoint Online source connector

The SharePoint Online source connector consists of multiple flows, which are described below. These flows use the MS Graph API v1 and the SharePoint Online REST API.

Graph API​

In order to connect to the Graph API you need to register an application using the Azure portal. For more information see MS Graph API v1 authentication.

The following API permissions are required using the Application Permissions tab:

  • Sites.Selected for specific sites or Sites.Read.All for the entire tenant
  • User.Read.All
  • Group.Read.All (optional for retrieving groups)
  • TermStore.Read.All (optional for retrieving managed metadata)

When limited site access is given with the Sites.Selected permission, the administrator has to grant access to the sites. For example, this PnP PowerShell command can be used: Grant-PnPAzureADAppSitePermission. For more information see Updates on controlling app specific access on specific SharePoint sites (Sites.Selected)

REST API​

When managed metadata (Term Store) is used or when permissions have to be set, access to the SharePoint Online REST API is required. For this purpose permissions have to be granted to the previously registered Graph API application.

On site level​

This can be done by going to this page: https://<tenantName>.sharepoint.com/<site/>_layouts/15/appinv.aspx (replace <tenantName> with the name of the tenant and <site/> with the relative site url).

For the App ID field use the client id value of the previously created Graph API application. Paste this XML snippet in field App's permission request:

<AppPermissionRequests AllowAppOnlyPolicy="true">
	<AppPermissionRequest Scope="http://sharepoint/content/sitecollection" Right="Read"/>
</AppPermissionRequests>

On tenant level​

This can be done by going to this page: https://<tenantName>-admin.sharepoint.com/_layouts/15/appinv.aspx (replace <tenantName> with the name of the tenant).

For the App ID field use the client id value of the previously created Graph API application. Paste this XML snippet in field App's permission request:

<AppPermissionRequests AllowAppOnlyPolicy="true">
	<AppPermissionRequest Scope="http://sharepoint/content/tenant" Right="Read"/>
</AppPermissionRequests>

For more information see Granting access using SharePoint App-Only

Features​

  • Exporting content structure
  • Exporting users
  • Exporting groups
  • Exporting user OneDrives
  • Exporting content types
  • Exporting managed metadata

Rate limit​

Every application has its own limits in a tenant, which are based on the number of licenses purchased per organization. In the HTTP request components, the limits are set to make sure throttling is avoided for the lowest amount of license count (0 - 1k), with a safe margin. More info can be found here.

Flows​

SharePoint Online (1. Content)​

The first flow exports the tenant content and users.

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

tenantID​

The ID of the tenant to connect to.

clientID​

The client ID of the application.

clientSecret​

The client secret of the application.

rootID​

The ID of the root site to start crawling using the following format:

<tenantName>.sharepoint.com,<siteId>,<webId>

To get the siteID and webID use the following urls:

<siteURL>/_api/site/id to get the siteID <siteURL>/_api/web/id to get the webID

Setting root as value will retrieve all sites and underlying content directly under the tenant, sites that are in /sites are excluded. When getAllSites is set to true, rootID will be ignored, the requested rootID will already be retrieved by getting all sites including sub sites.

getAllSites​

When set to true all sites and sub sites within the tenant will be retrieved.

Note Microsoft Teams are also retrieved when this setting is enabled.

getOneDrives​

When set to true the OneDrives of the users are retrieved.

getGroups​

When set to true the groups are retrieved.

getHiddenLists​

When set to true the hidden lists are retrieved.

Origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.

SharePoint Online (2. Content Types & Term Store)​

This flow exports the content types for each stored site and document library in the Content Store. Furthermore, for each site it also exports the term store.

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

tenantID​

The ID of the tenant to connect to.

tenantName​

The name of the tenant to connect to.

clientID​

The client ID of the application.

clientSecret​

The client secret of the application.

Origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.

SharePoint Online (3. Permission Levels)​

This flow exports all permission levels of each site in the Content Store. It is only required to run this flow when (custom) permissions are set on objects that are migrated.

Settings​

mongoConnection​

The Mongo connection string including the database name to connect to.

tenantID​

The ID of the tenant to connect to.

tenantName​

The name of the tenant to connect to.

clientID​

The client ID of the application.

clientSecret​

The client secret of the application.

Origin​

Specifies the origin of the document in the Content Store.