Planning your Environment with SP 2013 (v 1.9)

This section provides guidelines on planning the infrastructure and configuration necessary to support your installation of the Confluence SharePoint Connector.

These instructions apply if you are using the connector with SharePoint 2013. If you have an earlier version, please refer to the  planning guide for SharePoint 2007 or  planning guide for SharePoint 2010.

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Prerequisites and Supported Platforms

Please ensure you read through and comply with the following requirements before installing the SharePoint Connector.

Windows

The Confluence SharePoint Connector supports the same Windows operating system requirements as those specified by Microsoft for SharePoint.

Confluence

You need Confluence 4.0 or later. You can download Confluence from the Confluence download centre.

SharePoint

These instructions apply if you are using the connector with SharePoint 2013. If you have an earlier version, please refer to the planning guide for SharePoint 2007 or  planning guide for SharePoint 2010.

Versions 1.8 and later of the SharePoint Connector support Microsoft SharePoint 2013. For a quick guide to the different SharePoint versions available, see our comparison of SharePoint versions and editions. Some features of the SharePoint Connector are only available when using SharePoint Server 2013, as described below.

1. You will need SharePoint Foundation 2013 as a minimum requirement.
   • To check if SharePoint Foundation 2013 is installed, go to Start -> All Programs -> Microsoft SharePoint 2013 Products -> SharePoint 2013 Central Administration. If you can see 'SharePoint 2013 Central Administration', then SharePoint Foundation has already been installed.
2. (Optional) For added functionality, you need Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (Standard or Enterprise)
   • SharePoint Server 2013 is required for the following features:
     1. For the federated search feature. For more information, see our guide to configuring the SharePoint federated search .
     2. For Secure Store Service (single sign-on) functionality from SharePoint using Windows Integrated Authentication to Confluence. For more information, see the Microsoft product information.
   • For the Confluence SharePoint Connector, it makes no difference whether you have SharePoint Server 2013 Standard or SharePoint Server 2013 Enterprise edition.

Checking whether you have SharePoint Foundation 2013 or SharePoint Server 2013

Table: SharePoint Connector feature compatibility matrix

Supported Configurations

Next, please decide which of the supported configurations is best suited to your environment. There are two areas to consider when setting up the SharePoint Connector and deciding which authentication methods to use:

• Configuring access to SharePoint
• Configuring access to Confluence

Configuring Access to SharePoint

These configurations control the authentication method used by the Confluence server and client browsers when requesting content from the SharePoint server.

Selecting your Configuration for Access to SharePoint

Configuring Access to Confluence

These configurations control the authentication method used by the SharePoint server and client browsers when requesting content from the Confluence server.

• Access Confluence using Authentication provided by a Third Party App with SP 2013 (v 1.9)
• Access Confluence using Integrated Windows Authentication via IIS with SP 2013 (v 1.9)
• Access Confluence using Integrated Windows Authentication via Jespa with SP 2013 (v 1.9)
• Access Confluence using Standard Authentication with Secure Store Service on SP 2013 (v 1.9)
• Access Confluence using Standard Authentication with SP 2013 (v 1.9)

Selecting your Configuration for Access to Confluence

Unsupported Configurations

Atlassian support does not cover the configurations listed below.

Atlassian Crowd

Crowd is Atlassian's single sign-on (SSO) and user management solution. For the initial release of the SharePoint Connector, we made a decision to delay full support for Crowd in favor of Microsoft's Single Sign-On Service (Microsoft SSOSrv). At the time, we felt that Microsoft SSOSrv's tight integration with SharePoint was a more compelling feature for SharePoint customers.

As the SharePoint Connector matures, we are now looking at expanding our support to reach a broader customer base. We hope to support Crowd for SSO in the future.

If you are interested in this feature, we encourage you to vote for the feature request in our JIRA issue tracker: CSI-588.

SiteMinder and other Single Sign-On Management Solutions

We have tested the connector with the following single sign-on solutions from Microsoft:

• Single Sign-On Service, provided with MOSS 2007.
• Secure Store Service provided with SharePoint Server 2010 (available with version 1.2 and later of the SharePoint Connector).

We have not tested any other single sign-on products. If you are interested in support for other SSO solutions, we encourage you to vote for the relevant request if it already exists in our JIRA issue tracker or create a new request. When voting or adding a request, please describe your environment.

• Request for SiteMinder integration: CSI-218

SharePoint Forms-Based Authentication

The SharePoint Connector cannot connect to SharePoint sites that use an ASP.NET Forms authentication provider. We may add support for this configuration in the future. If you are interested in this feature, we encourage you to vote for the feature request in our JIRA issue tracker: CSI-590.

Next Step

To continue with the installation of the SharePoint Connector, please configure the access to SharePoint.