External Content Connectors reference

Reference information for the External Content Connectors application and for individual external content connectors.

• Components installed with External Content Connectors
  The External Content Connectors plugin installs a connector administrator role and a scheduled job to remove unused OAuth 2.0 credentials for deleted external content connectors.
• Binary file extensions supported in External Content Connectors
  Connector administrators can restrict the binary file types an external content connector retrieves by specifying file extensions in inclusion or exclusion filters.
• Statistics for external content connector content crawls
  Each crawl history entry for an external content connector's content crawl includes statistics about the documents (items or files with searchable content and metadata) retrieved by the crawl.
• Statistics for external content connector user permission crawls
  Each crawl history entry for an external content connector's user permission crawl crawl includes statistics about the permissions (user and group-membership security principals) retrieved by the crawl.
• Analytics for external content connectors
  Metrics that show how your external content connector has run over time.
• Reassign the External Content Connectors Service Account user to the global domain
  Fix issues with missing user permissions for users on your instance by reassigning the External Content Connectors Service Account user to the global domain.