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| This information is rather deep technical and not really required to install and configure the Connector for SharePoint Search. However, sometimes it could be useful for understanding the whole procedure. |
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Some of the following steps (indicated by a warning icon:  icon) have to be executed on all application servers of the farm (this includes all servers that host the Crawl component). |
To deploy a custom indexing connector to a SharePoint farm several steps are required to be done: - Install and deploy the custom indexing connector (script "InstallSearchConnector.ps1")
- The SharePoint solution will be globally deployed on all farm servers where the "Microsoft SharePoint Foundation Web Application" service is running.
- Ensure that the Business Connectivity Services model file (in our case this is "ConfluenceBDCModel.xml") contains the necessary information (script "InstallSearchConnector.ps1") and is available on all application servers in the same directory (manually)
- Add a registry entry for the protocol used by SharePoint to call into the indexing connector (script "InstallSearchConnector.ps1")
- Register the indexing connector (i.e. protocol handler) that is used to crawl the custom repository (script "InstallSearchConnector.ps1")
- Create the search content source for Confluence (script "InstallSearchConnector.ps1")
- Add start addresses to the content source (manually, step "Configure the start address of the content source" of installation manual)
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