Installing a SharePoint solution on the SharePoint server

Before you can configure the SharePoint Object Model crawl, you must install a SharePoint solution on the SharePoint server. This task is not required if you are using the SharePoint Web Services crawl.

The IAS installation redistributes a SharePoint solution. The SharePoint solution contains an agent (a SOAP Web service assembly) that allows the crawl to communicate with the SharePoint server.

The user installing the SharePoint solution must have the following roles in SharePoint:
  • Farm Administrator
  • Site Collection Administrator
  • db_owner (content database of the administration site)
The SharePoint solution installs the following assemblies into the global assembly cache:
  • Microsoft.Web.Services2.dll
  • Entropysoft.Sharepoint.WebService.dll
  • Entropysoft.WebConfModif.dll

To install the SharePoint solution:

  1. Navigate to <install path>\IAS\<version>\cms\sharepoint-om.
  2. Copy EntropySoft-SharePoint-Conn-Setup.exe to a temporary directory accessible from the SharePoint server.
  3. Start the Windows SharePoint Services Administration service on the SharePoint server.
  4. Double-click EntropySoft-SharePoint-Conn-Setup.exe. The SharePoint installation program starts.
  5. Click Yes.
  6. Click Next to continue.

    The installation program performs a number of preliminary checks. If one of these checks fail, correct the problem and restart the installation program to continue.

  7. Accept the EntropySoft license agreement and click Next to continue.
  8. On the Deployment Targets screen, select the SharePoint Web site(s) to deploy the crawl to. You may need to select multiple Web sites if you have a SharePoint server farm.

    There is normally no need to deploy the crawl to SharePoint administrative sites.

  9. Click Next to continue.
  10. Click Close.

The installation program copies the files and deploys the crawl to all members of the selected SharePoint farm.

After installation, you can verify that the SharePoint solution has been correctly deployed to the server, or server farm, by connecting to SharePoint Central Administration, clicking the Operations tab, then selecting Solution management in the Global Configuration section.