SharePoint

Make your SharePoint content searchable in Glean

Indexes your SharePoint sites, pages, files, and lists for org-wide search by default — add real-time search when content must always be live. Always scoped to each user's permissions.

SharePoint OnlineIndexed by defaultOptional real-timeCertificate authPermission-awarePart of Microsoft 365

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At a glance

Authentication

Certificate (app-only application permissions)

Connection methods

Indexed connector by default; real-time search optional

What it indexes

Sites, pages, document libraries, files, and lists

Permissions

Identity-aware, enforced at query time

Required scope

Sites.FullControl.All (Graph + SharePoint REST)

Parent connector

Microsoft 365

General information

Overview

What the SharePoint connector indexes and how it fits into the Microsoft 365 suite.

Setup and configuration

Default

Indexing connector

The default method. Crawls SharePoint into Glean's index for fast, ranked, org-wide search — set this up first.

Add-on

Real-time search

An optional add-on for always-live results: fetches content from SharePoint at query time, with nothing stored in Glean's index.

Crawling restrictions

Control which SharePoint content Glean crawls using greenlists, redlists, and draft exclusions.

Security

API endpoints

The Microsoft APIs and endpoints the SharePoint connector calls.

Permissions

How Glean reads SharePoint permissions and enforces them at query time.

Support

Error codes

Look up connector error codes and what they mean.