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This release fixes a security flaw. Please refer to the security advisory for details of the security vulnerabilities, risk assessment and mitigation strategies.

18 January 2009

Atlassian is proud to present the Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.1.

This release of the SharePoint Connector supports federated searches of Confluence content in SharePoint. This replaces the original index search feature, which 'crawled' through cached content in Confluence. Federated searches use Confluence's own search engine to retrieve up-to-date and relevant matches, providing more accurate results than index searches.

You can now configure the SharePoint Connector to access a SharePoint site via an alternative URL, such as a URL that is only available from behind a firewall or VPN. This URL may therefore be different from the SharePoint address that is publicly available.

The SharePoint Connector requires Confluence 2.8.0 or later.

Upgrading from a previous version of the SharePoint Connector
Please refer to the SharePoint Connector 1.1 Upgrade Notes for essential information about factors affecting your upgrade.

 

Enhanced Federated Search

The new search allows SharePoint to conduct improved federated searches on Confluence content. It completely replaces the old 'integrated index search' feature in previous versions of the SharePoint Connector. The new search brings several improvements:

  • More accurate and relevant results: The old index search feature performed searches on Confluence's cached search indexes. Now the federated searches use Confluence's own search engine to conduct 'live' searches, resulting in more accurate, better ordered and more relevant search results.

  • More comprehensive searches: Federated searches include Confluence metadata such as page labels, author details and comments.

  • Improved Confluence performance: The old index search feature 'crawls' through Confluence's cached search indexes, which can impact Confluence's performance significantly. The new federated search feature only requires Confluence to perform a live search when a search is issued in SharePoint. This has much less impact on Confluence's performance.

  • Confluence permissions respected: The new federated search function 'trims' search results more accurately than the old integrated index search feature. A 'trimmed' search result shows only Confluence content that the current user has permission to view through their Confluence account. This feature works across multiple Confluence installations too.

 

Alternative URL for Accessing SharePoint

You can now configure an 'alternative access URL' for SharePoint. This allows the SharePoint Connector to access a SharePoint site via an alternative URL, such as a URL that is only available from behind a firewall or VPN. This URL may therefore be different from the SharePoint address that is typically available to users or is publicly available.

The alternative URL also resolves problems where the SharePoint installation uses an authentication protocol not supported by Confluence, such as NTLMv2 or Kerberos. You can configure SharePoint to run on a separate port that bypasses the unsupported authentication protocol, and then allow Confluence to communicate with SharePoint via this alternative URL.

Complete List of Fixes in this Release

JIRA Issues (37 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
CSI-570 Converting SharePoint pages to Confluence Major Resolved
CSI-522 Change "alternate" to "alternative" for alternative URL on SharePoint Integration Administration screen Major Closed
CSI-521 Confluence navigation bar generates corrupt HTML when no default Sharepoint site is configured Blocker Closed
CSI-517 The SharePoint Admin screen in Confluence generates a "System Error" when editing existing SharePoint Sites. Blocker Closed
CSI-515 The "SharePoint Plugin" for Confluence does not appear in Confluence Administration Console's Plugin Repository Client. Blocker Closed
CSI-508 sp-link macro is frequently automatically disabled in Confluence Critical Closed
CSI-504 SharePoint Theme in Confluence does not wrap the header correctly in IE7 Minor Closed
CSI-501 sp-list macro provides openings for XSS attacks Blocker Closed
CSI-497 SharePoint Federated Search is not authenticating with Confluence using Basic Authentication Critical Closed
CSI-496 Example MOSS search URL in the Confluence SharePoint Admin UI is incorrect Minor Closed
CSI-475 All Sharepoint settings in Confluence may be lost upon Confluence restart Critical Closed
CSI-474 NTLM Authentication not passed through Sharepoint Critical Closed
CSI-465 Confluence Page Web Part does not use Confluence server base URL Major Closed
CSI-462 SharePoint theme for Confluence 2.8+ is broken in Confluence 3.0 Major Closed
CSI-456 Drop Sharepoint 2.7+ Theme Major Closed
CSI-455 Drop Support for Confluence < 2.8 Major Closed
CSI-453 Federated Search Sharepoint -> Confluence Major Closed
CSI-452 Drop JCIFS support Major Closed
CSI-446 Seeing rapid reload in Internet Explorer when using Sharepoint Theme 2.8+ with AJAX pagetree plugin version 1.11 Critical Closed
CSI-444 Add Configuration for a Sharepoint External Base URL Major Closed
CSI-438 Crawl result returns labels concatenated in a single url separated by spaces (%20) Minor Closed
CSI-436 "Must explicitly set a SearchContext to use when one cannot be inferred implicitly (typically from the HttpContext)." error when creating Sharepoint Search Minor Resolved
CSI-435 Allow Sharepoint evaluation licenses to be used with Commercial Confluence licenses Blocker Closed
CSI-434 pagetreesearch macro prevents Confluence page web part from functioning at all. Major Closed
CSI-410 Allow security trimmed federated search results Major Closed
CSI-406 Update recommended browser settings for Firefox 3.0 Major Resolved
CSI-381 pagetree macro does not work within Confluence Page web part Major Closed
CSI-249 Sharepoint Searchbox adds query twice to Confluence search form Minor Closed
CSI-238 Feature Rich MOSS Search Minor Closed
CSI-209 SharePoint REAMDE.TXT Format Minor Closed
CSI-171 Use session properties for security trimmer web service connection Major Closed
CSI-159 Fix problem with configuring SharePoint crawl rule using Windows Authentication against Confluence running under IIS Major Closed
CSI-149 Showing Confluence 2.8 Tasklist in Web Part Breaks SharePoint Page Critical Closed
CSI-148 SharePoint Search Configuration - Crawl Actions and Crawl Schedule Minor Closed
CSI-140 Delete SharePoint Crawl Rule if we error out when creating a Confluence Search Source Minor Closed
CSI-109 Security Trimmer Connection Configuration for Searching Across Multiple Confluence Installations Major Closed
CSI-14 Show Confluence icon for Confluence search results Minor Closed


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