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SharePoint (Online) connector overview - Amazon Q Business

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SharePoint (Online) connector overview

The following table gives an overview of the Amazon Q Business SharePoint (Online) connector and its supported features.

Category Feature Support
Security Authentication type

In order from most to least secure authentication type:

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) App-Only (OAuth 2.0 Certificate) (This is the preferred method of connection)

  • SharePoint App-Only with Client Credentials Flow

  • OAuth 2.0 with Resource Owner Password Flow

  • Basic authentication
Authentication credentials

Azure App-Only (OAuth 2.0 Certificate)

  • Tenant ID

  • Certificate path

  • Client ID

  • Private key

SharePoint App-Only (OAuth 2.0 with Client Credentials Flow)

  • Tenant ID

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Client ID

  • Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) Client secret

  • SharePoint App-Only Client ID

  • SharePoint App-Only Client secret

OAuth 2.0 with Resource Owner Password Flow

  • SharePoint Tenant ID

  • SharePoint admin username

  • SharePoint admin password

  • Client ID

  • Client secret

Basic

  • SharePoint (Online) admin username

  • SharePoint (Online) admin password
Access Control List (ACL) crawling Yes. For more information, see ACL crawling.
Integration with Identity Provider (IdP) Yes. Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD).
Identity crawling Yes
VPC Yes
Crawl features Custom metadata Yes. Supports custom metadata for File entity only.
Entities Yes. The following entities are supported:

  • Files

  • Attachments

  • Link

  • Pages

  • Events

  • Comments

  • List Data

See What is a document? for more details on what each connector crawls as a document.
Field mappings Yes. Supports both default and custom field mappings. For more information, see Field mappings.
Filters Yes. The following filters are supported:

  • Include/exclude by Links

  • Include/exclude by Pages

  • Include/exclude by Events

  • Include/exclude by file name

  • Include/exclude by file path

  • Include/exclude by file type

  • Include/exclude by OneNote Section name

  • Include/exclude by OneNote Page name
Sync mode Supports full and incremental sync.
File types Supports all files supported by Amazon Q.
Crawled as a document

  • Each event

  • Each page

  • Each file

  • Each link

  • Each file attachment

  • Each comment

  • Each OneNote