Need Details on Confluence connector for Microsoft Search

[Swathi SHANKARNARAYANA]

Confluence cloud Microsoft Graph connector allows organizations to crawl Confluence cloud data to Microsoft tenant. The crawled and indexed confluence data can be made searchable from office.com, bing.com or sharepoint

Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/confluence-cloud-connector#before-you-get-started)

1. In the above documentation, to configure connector pre-requisite is to be admin for organization's Confluence site.

However, in a separate note its mentioned -- Make sure the service account has view access to the Confluence content you want to index. 

Why is it required to be a site admin for connector configuration? Would only View access be sufficient for indexing?

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2. According to Microsoft documentation - (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/confluence-cloud-connector#step-5-manage-search-permissions) it is mentioned that Page level restrictions, if present, will take precedence over space permissions.

However, any page which has individual user or group assigned as part of Page restrictions, never gets indexed to Microsoft Search index.

Is this by design or a limitation?

[Marc Solomon]

Hi Swathi,

This is resurfacing with the advent of Microsoft Copilot, which also uses the graph connector.

The view permission is required, I assume, to ensure all the pages that are public/open can be searched/read and then available for search. 

Looking forward to an expert helping out here...

Regards

Marc