SharePoint Server connector package

Elastic Search
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Starting in the 8.1 Enterprise Search release, we have a new Elastic SharePoint Server connector package available for beta. This connector package extends the existing Workplace Search content source catalog, with a fully customizable connector package.

We on the product team would love your feedback and hear how you're customizing your connector package. Get started with the connector package here: SharePoint Server connector package | Workplace Search Guide [8.2] | Elastic

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For anyone looking to do custom connector package development or working with the network drives connector, I highly recommend this blog post that has been published as a guide! You have more ways to bake this cake: Bring your own Enterprise Search connector | Elastic Blog

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Hi. We've started experimenting with this connector for our on-premises implementation of SharePoint 2019.

I don't see anywhere in the documentation for the configuration file for the connector a way to reference a CA pem file so that certificates can be validated.

My make test_connectivity is failing with an ssl verification error:

raise SSLError(e, request=request) requests.exceptions.SSLError: HTTPSConnectionPool(host='sharepoint-host.bogus', port=443): Max retries exceeded with url: ///sites/ABC/_api/web/webs?&$skip=0&$top=5000 (Caused by SSLError(SSLError(1, '[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:897)'),))

Is there a way to either specify the location of the CA file or tell the connector to NOT validate certs?

Thanks!

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Hey Tony, great question, I'm going to ping our developers to give you a more detailed answer on this one. Stay tuned.

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@TonyWRobinson Hey there, the workaround that you can do is to modify the connector by adding these parameters to the requests.get() method: verfiy = False or verify = '/path / to / certfile' in sharepoint_client.py file.

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Cool. I have to re-make after this is done, right? Or is this picked up at runtime?

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@TonyWRobinson you would need to re-make, by using command 'make install_package / make install_locally'

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@TonyWRobinson our team is working on making this easier in the connector package. We've filed an issue: allow custom certificates · Issue #57 · elastic/enterprise-search-sharepoint-server-connector · GitHub that you can subscribe to updates and check to see when it's been closed.

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Thanks @Serena_Chou I'll keep an eye on it. Appreciate all your help!