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From YouTube: Introduction to SharePoint on-prem Microsoft Graph connector

Description

In this 8-minute developer focused demo, Parag Jain reviews the capabilities of the SharePoint on-prem connector shown at Ignite 2021, that’s in Private Preview. The on-prem agent-based connector supports SharePoint 2013/2016/2019. Has ability to crawl sites, site collections and documents. Supports exclusion list & ACL. Secure and compliant by design, has basic and Windows Auth. Allows Admins to bring SharePoint on-premises instances to Microsoft Search, Viva, and more. Graph accessibility as expected with entire cloud-based Microsoft 365 ecosystem. This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on November 23, 2021.

Demo Presenter: Parag Jain (Microsoft)

Supporting materials:
• Preview – Graph Connector Private Preview | https://aka.ms/graphconnectorpreview
• Article - What’s new and what’s next for Microsoft Graph connectors | https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-search-blog/what-s-new-and-what-s-next-for-microsoft-graph-connectors/ba-p/2913895
• Documentation - Microsoft Graph connector agent | https://docs.microsoft.com/microsoftsearch/graph-connector-agent

Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp/videos

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Hey everyone: my name is parag senior program manager in microsoft, search and bing product team, uh working on uh few scenarios on microsoft, search size as well as graph connectors.

A

So give you a quick, um you know, snapshot or the overview of what we shared. uh uh You know earlier this month in ignite, uh as most of you folks already know that graph connectors is uh ga, you know it helps you bring in your third party content into microsoft. Search ecosystem uh helps you bring content into not just search, but you know for intelligent discovery, viva topics, people experience and not to mention security and compliance inbuilt, because you know it's part of m365, as we all know so.

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uh General availability is a few of our graph connectors, which we announced last ignite. uh I'm sure you know most of our customers have already been using it for good one year and sharing good feedback with us. A number of number of new graph connectors. We announced private preview, this ignite, uh that includes sharepoint on-prem connector, which is the topic you know I wanted.

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uh You know some discussion in this forum as well as few additional, and you know if any of these graph connectors in preview you see on the right side of the screen is area of your interest. I have a sign up link to participate in the private preview in the coming slide.

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You can, you know, share your information and one of our team members from graph connectors team will reach out to you to get more information and the graph connectors in preview includes sharepoint on-prem, we'll have you know more discussion on that uh azure devops work items we already have azure devops ga uh this is the you know, addition to that which includes work items uh then jira confluence, servicenow catalog.

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uh We already had servicenow knowledgebase uh ga and this catalog currently is in preview, azure, devops, wikis, uh csv, connector and schoology, which is mostly for our. You know: education, space customers, so you know the number of connectors and uh in preview would love to get. You know. uh um You know a few of uh folks from this uh forum submit the nomination. So you know we can work with you and you know bring you into a private preview. Now talking about sharepoint on-prem connector, um as you know, you know we have been.

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uh You know most of the customers already using cloud hybrid search to to get this hybrid environment set up to you know, make your on-prem sharepoint content searchable from from on-prem or you know, in from sharepoint online, uh but with the graph connectors you know we're taking it to next stage. Where you know you can bring your on-prem content into this whole ecosystem of graph connectors.

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Where you know the content will not just participate in uh search, but it will also participate in you know some advanced features like viva topics and- and you know the discoverability and you know the all- the new features which which our team is working on, we're gonna show it preview during uh basic night. uh What we support in sharepoint on-prem graph connectors today, if you have no plans of moving your on-prem sharepoint content to cloud in, let's say next two to three years time frame.

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We would suggest you to give it a try, uh and you know start thinking about how you will move the you know the content or index it uh through this sharepoint on-prem graph. Connector into cloud- and you know, use all the advanced capabilities of search and- and uh you know viva here- is the link to participate in the private preview. Aka ms slash graph, connector preview, um and you know the capabilities we currently support is, if you have sharepoint on-prem environment, 2013 16-19, all three supported uh this connector is specifically on-prem agent-based.

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So you know you have a agent framework or agent uh kind of installer which you install in your local environment. uh Then it talks to uh basically our cloud components and you know help you crawl. The uh sharepoint on-prem servers and you know, help you ingest the data from your on-prem or basically inches the index to our online system.

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We support exclusion list, we support eccles. So you know all the permission set for your on-prem content will be respected in your online search scenarios. We support basic and windows auth at this point and you know uh making uh you know, providing support for more odd scenarios as we, you know, as I speak uh in coming weeks uh and it's part of m365 graph, connector ecosystem, so you know secure and compliant by design uh once so. The currently it's uh the way we are working in private previews.

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You submit submit uh your information in in the sign up form, which I shared the link uh akms slash graph, connectors preview. We enable this particular connector for your tenant and then once it's enabled it will be available in your data sources. Once you go to admin center search, intelligence, slash data sources, you will see this new connector showing up here, which is called sharepoint, uh and you know from there.

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It's the regular admin screens where you provide the you know the source information um echo permissions and you know what all you want to crawl and you know exclusion list and things like things like that and after that you create. Now you provide the modern result, types you create vertical and then units start showing up in your sharepoint online office.com and microsoft search and bring such experiences uh at high level. uh You know a little bit information about how this overall architecture is working. So you know, just here is your source.

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On-Prem agent, as I said, you know, it's on-prem agent-based system agent will be installed locally on your server or you know vm. If you want to create in your environment which has information how to do the crawling for your source system- and you know talk to our online system in graph connector service uh which helps in crawling and ingesting- and you know basically coordinating the the injection part and then you know it puts information in substrate and from there you know it appears in your such experiences.

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So that's all I have in my presentation. I do not have any you know uh any demos at this point, but would love to get information to uh you know help you folks, try it out. So please submit that information in the nomination form and I'll share that link, if brian has not already done that. So thank you so much. I appreciate the time and looking forward for your participation.

B

Thank you yeah. We shared a link already in the chat one question related on the on the supported versions. The latest version of sharepoint server on premises is actually sharepoint server subscription edition, which was released uh two months ago now, which is based on sharepoint 2019. I guess that's supported, uh but it wasn't mentioned on the slides uh and slide might be outdated. So um there was a question related on that.

A

Correct so subscription edition we, uh my team, is still you know, working on few of the last components on it so likely in a month time. It will. You know we'll, have support for that, but at this point, if uh you know our customers want to give it a try in next one month, I would say 2013, 16 and 19, but likely starting january will have support for subscription edition as well cool.

B

That is all what was uh expected. That was, I think that was the only pending question and then was that that was my comment actually that there was a lowercase p on the on the picking of a sharepoint, so uh it the point is of the day capital b, but again it's in preview. So it's okay. Let's get.

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B

Thank you cool. Thank you barack on that one.