Adding a Microsoft SharePoint Web Services data source

You add a Microsoft SharePoint Web Services data source to CAS Console by specifying connection information, seeds, filters that include or exclude files, and advanced settings.

1. On the Data Sources page, click Add Data Source....
2. Select Microsoft SharePoint Web Services from the list and click Add. The Data Source tab displays.
3. In Name, specify a unique name for the data source to distinguish it from other data sources in the CAS Console. You can create a data source name with alphanumeric characters, underscores, dashes, and periods. All other characters are invalid for a name.
4. In User Name, set a user name for the data source. For SharePoint 2003, this username must match the SharePoint user's Account as it appears in Central Administration > People and Groups > User Information
5. If you are using NTLM authentication, specify the domain of the SharePoint server in Domain.

   In order to authenticate to SharePoint using NTLM, the domain name must be specified to log on to the server. Alternatively, encode the domain name in the user name as in DOMAIN\username. In that case, do not specify a domain name in the credentials domain.

   For non-NTLM authentication, this is a convenience property for prepending the value of this property to the username property. The domain will be appended with a backslash separating it from the username. Oracle recommends specifying the domain only in the username property and not adding this property, for clarity.

6. Specify values for Password and Confirm Password.
7. In SharePoint Site URL, specify a value for the SharePoint server name and port, such as http://sharepoint:10000. The SharePoint Site URL can only be set to the repository site or the home SharePoint site collection. The SharePoint Site URL cannot be set to a Document Library.
8. Click Show optional configuration.
9. Optionally, in Generic Lists Support, select true to support additional Sharepoint lists such as Issues, Wiki, Surveys, custom lists. By default, the connector manages document libraries. The default is true.
10. Optionally, in Enable HTTP Chunking, select true to use chunked encoding for HTTP messages. The default value is false.
11. Optionally, in Check SSL Certificate, specify whether all SSL certificates are accepted, including self-signed certificates. Select true to accept only trusted SSL certificates, or select false to accept all SSL certificates including self-signed certificates. The default value is false.
12. Optionally, specify one or more seeds by clicking Add under Seeds. Specify the relative path of the URL in relation to the siteUrl, such as /Shared Documents/Word Docs. Do not use "%20" to denote spaces; use spaces if needed in the URL. When crawling lists, do not specify the seed as the navigation url (such as /Lists/ListName); simply specify /ListName. Seed names are case sensitive.
13. Click Save or select the Filters or Advanced Settings tab to continue configuring the data source.