SharePoint on-premise

Configuring SharePoint On-Premise connector in Dashboard

• Navigate to Administration -> Data Sources -> SharePoint On-Premise -> New scan

• Provide the Domain URL, an admin username and its password

• Click on the Folder icon in Site and path to select a particular site to scan, or leave the path as empty to scan all sites

• Save the configuration

• Once the configuration is saved, click on the icon on the right and select Start file scan to begin the scanning

• The results can be viewed under Dashboard -> Enterprise Search

File tagging

Prerequisites

• An admin level user is required to scan and tag files in SharePoint On-Premise. The user must be a member of Site Owners Group where they have full control permissions to the SharePoint site.

• The default Getvisibility tags need to be created as a new column in their SharePoint. This process is described below:

  • In SharePoint, navigate to Documents

  • In the files view, select + Add column

  

  • Select Choice and then Next

  

  • Give the name as Classification and the choices as: Public, Internal, Confidential, Highly-Confidential. Select Save

  

  • Similary create Compliance and Distribution columns (if required)

  • Getvisibility and SharePoint's tags are now aligned

• When tags are written to SharePoint files automatically over the API, as the tags are added by Getvisibility, Modified By changes to System Account.

  • Getvisibility preserves the Modified date where applicable.

Supported SharePoint On-Premise versions:

The connector supports SharePoint 2013, 2016, 2019.