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7 June 2010

Atlassian is proud to present the Confluence SharePoint Connector 1.2.

The two big features of this release are SharePoint 2010 support and the much improved support for Integrated Windows Authentication (IWA). With version 1.2 of the Confluence SharePoint Connector, you can now connect Confluence to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 as well as SharePoint 2007. In addition, the connector offers full support for all the IWA protocols, now including NTLMv2 and Kerberos.

There are a number of other improvements too. You can now deploy the connector to additional SharePoint site collections at any time. The connector supports multiple AD domains, since it can now distinguish between two identical usernames in different domains. To see the full picture, take a look at the list of improvements below.

Highlights of this release:

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Upgrading from a previous version of the SharePoint Connector
Please refer to the SharePoint Connector 1.2 Upgrade Notes for essential information about factors affecting your upgrade.

 

Support for SharePoint 2010

The SharePoint Connector now supports SharePoint 2010 as well as SharePoint 2007. The connector offers the same features for both versions of SharePoint:

  • Embed Confluence pages and page trees into a SharePoint page, using the Confluence web parts. Click through from SharePoint to Confluence.
  • Embed SharePoint lists and documents into a Confluence page, using Confluence's sp-list and sp-link macros. Click through from Confluence to SharePoint. Edit Office documents directly from Confluence and save them back to SharePoint.
  • Enjoy automatic login (single sign-on) between Confluence and SharePoint.
  • Search Confluence and SharePoint content together, retrieving a unified set of results.

 

Integrated Windows Authentication

The SharePoint Connector offers a number of options for configuring authentication between Confluence and SharePoint. Version 1.2 of the connector adds support for NTLMv2 and Kerberos. This means that the connector supports all of the Integrated Windows Authentication protocols. We have created handy guides and decision charts to help you choose the configuration that suits your environment, and detailed documentation about setting up each configuration.

Connecting from SharePoint to Confluence:

  • The connector supports all of the IWA protocols (LM, LMv2, NTLM, NTLMv2, Kerberos).
  • You can use IIS or Jespa.

Connecting from Confluence to SharePoint:

  • Confluence on Windows can connect to SharePoint using all of the IWA protocols (LM, Mv2, NTLM, NTLMv2, Kerberos), using our new .NET NTLM proxy.
  • When Confluence is not running on Windows, it can connect to SharePoint using LM or NTLM.

See our cool new guides to planning your environment with SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010.

 

Easy Connection to Additional SharePoint Site Collections

At any time after the initial installation, you can now deploy the SharePoint Connector to more site collections. Just run the SharePoint Connector installer (Setup_WebParts.exe) and select 'Deploy to new Site Collection'. See our documentation.

 

Multiple AD Domains

You can configure Confluence to connect to a number of Active Directory domains. With the latest release of the SharePoint Connector, you can configure the connector to pass the domain as well as the username when checking the user's permissions in Confluence. This means that the connector can distinguish between two users who have the same username in different domains. See our documentation for SharePoint 2007 and for SharePoint 2010.

 

Plenty of Improvements

You'll notice that things just work better with the latest version of the SharePoint Connector.

  • We have fixed a problem in the Confluence Pages Tree View web part. Before this release, SharePoint would automatically check out the page when a user changed the selection in the space dropdown list. Under certain circumstances, this could cause an error. The web part now displays a 'Make Default' option when the user changes the selection in the space dropdown. If the user selects the option, SharePoint will check out the page if necessary. Otherwise, SharePoint will not attempt to check out the page.
  • When sending authentication credentials to Confluence, the SharePoint Connector now correctly passes credentials entered in the format 'DOMAIN\Username'. Before this release, the connector sent such credentials with an empty domain and the username set to 'DOMAIN\Username', which caused the authentication to fail. This bug is now fixed.
  • See the complete list of fixes below.

The SharePoint Connector 1.2 Team

Development
Jonathan Gilbert
Joseph Clark

Product Management
Sherif Mansour

Product Marketing Management
Bill Arconati
Matthew Hodges

Quality Assurance
Mark Hrynczak
Marlena Compton

Support
Roy Hartono
Maleko Taylor
Azwandi Mohd Aris

Team Lead
Per Fragemann

Technical Writing
Sarah Maddox

Complete List of Fixes in this Release

JIRA Issues (67 issues)
Key Summary Priority Status
CSI-612 Confluence plugin has hard-coded text for "MOSS Search Integration settings", which is not correct when connecting to SP2010 Minor Closed
CSI-611 The SSO Tickets generated by the Secure Store Service are too long to be embedded in the URLs Blocker Closed
CSI-610 Unhandled Exception thrown when trying to configure a Confluence Page Web Part and Secure Store Service is active Blocker Closed
CSI-609 When the SharePoint Installer system checks are run twice, all subsequent screens in the wizard get duplicated. Critical Closed
CSI-608 Please fix help link on 'Finished' screen of installer Minor Closed
CSI-607 If both SharePoint 2007 and SharePoint 2010 are installed, the installer defaults to install the SharePoint 2007 solution file, and this behaviour cannot be modified Blocker Closed
CSI-606 Minor improvements to ConfluenceSettings.aspx for 1.2 Minor Closed
CSI-604 Fix the documentation links on the SharePoint "Confluence Administrative Settings" screen Major Closed
CSI-601 Following instructions for installing the Confluence plugins causes a licence-inconsistency error state Major Closed
CSI-600 Unhandled exception if SharePoint solution installer cannot start the SharePoint Administrative Service Major Closed
CSI-599 SharePoint Connector 1.2 cannot be installed on Confluence 3.2 Blocker Closed
CSI-598 Invalid JavaScript causes Confluence Page Web Part to not load in Firefox 3.6/SharePoint 2010 Major Closed
CSI-595 new "Confluence User Name Format" field in ConfluenceSettings.aspx is not persisted after sp2010 merge. Major Closed
CSI-594 SharePoint feature installer deletes the WSP file from disk after installing it into the SharePoint solution store Major Closed
CSI-593 SharePoint feature installer refers to "SharePoint 2007" when installing on SharePoint 2010 Server. Major Closed
CSI-591 On uninstall the log page is skipped causing the Installer to crash Major Closed
CSI-587 Add the Atlassian "Charlie" icon to the SharePoint Connector icon Trivial Closed
CSI-586 Running the SharePoint Connector Installer requires administrative privileges Major Closed
CSI-585 Enhance the installer to detect SharePoint 2007/2010 and install the correct solution Major Closed
CSI-584 Add support for deploying SharePoint Connector to new site collections Major Closed
CSI-583 SharePoint installer files should be embedded resources Major Closed
CSI-582 Do not show installer log screen if installation was successful Minor Closed
CSI-581 Create links to start SharePoint services if the Installer detects that they are not running Minor Closed
CSI-580 Evaluate documentation impact of Version 1.2 Changes Major Closed
CSI-573 Please add and fix documentation links in Macro Browser for the sp-link and sp-list macros Major Closed
CSI-567 Verify support for Confluence 3.2 Major Closed
CSI-566 CSI Diagnostics tool is out of date Major Closed
CSI-565 CSI Diagnostics documentation incorrectly states that the diagnostic tool can only run on 32-bit machines; this is false. Major Closed
CSI-564 SharePoint Connector installation instructions do not specify that the Remote API for Confluence must be enabled. Major Closed
CSI-563 Support SharePoint 2010 Major Closed
CSI-560 SharePoint Decorator Theme: Unable to use Macro Browser Critical Closed
CSI-556 SharePoint Plugin contains some undefined modules Minor Closed
CSI-552 Macro Browser does not load when SharePoint Decorators Theme is enabled Critical Closed
CSI-549 Confluence credentials stored in SharePoint (in DOMAIN\Username format) fails to connect to Confluence Major Closed
CSI-547 Domain name gets stripped off when using Basic Authentication (Confluence -> SharePoint) Major Closed
CSI-545 Improve CI Build Time Minor Resolved
CSI-543 CAT.NET reports errors for Atlassian.Confluence.SharePoint.dll Major Closed
CSI-542 SPDisposeCheck reports errors for Atlassian.Confluence.SharePoint.dll Major Closed
CSI-540 Modifying "space list" drop-down in Confluence tree view web part causes page check-out Major Closed
CSI-537 Please change the online help link on the Confluence 'SharePoint Admin' screen Major Closed
CSI-535 Basic Authentication (Confluence -> SharePoint) doesn't work when username is <Domain>\<User> Major Closed
CSI-532 client-config.wsdd on CAC has moved Blocker Closed
CSI-530 Sharepoint Connector is using Apache HTTP client, hence it can only send LM authentication Major Closed
CSI-527 Improve the messaging around what the Sharepoint Connector can and cannot do Critical Closed
CSI-516 Please update the text in the "readme.txt" bundled with "SharePointConnector" zip file Major Closed
CSI-513 client-config.wsdd is not written out correctly in some cases yet again Critical Closed
CSI-512 Wording for "Confluence Access URL Enabled" option could do with some clarification. Minor Closed
CSI-510 Tree View web part displays error when selecting first option in space list Major Closed
CSI-506 Modifying a Confluence Web Part clears the previous page selection Major Closed
CSI-498 sp-list macro throws an NPE when listname and column are blank Major Closed
CSI-493 Remove the second "Confirm Password" field on the Confluence Settings page in SharePoint Minor Closed
CSI-491 WebParts installer does not rerun System Check when expected Minor Closed
CSI-488 Failing connection to Confluence in WebPart can bring down whole Sharepoint Page Major Closed
CSI-485 Session cannot be accessed in WSS Major Closed
CSI-461 Distinguish the same user of multiple domains Major Closed
CSI-452 Drop JCIFS support Major Closed
CSI-443 the Confluence plugin to authenticate SOAP calls to SP with NTLMv2 Critical Closed
CSI-418 improve error message when client-config.wsdd is not written properly by the plugin Minor Closed
CSI-413 Licensing service returns a "401 Unauthorized" when using JCIFS for authentication in Confluence Major Closed
CSI-406 Update recommended browser settings for Firefox 3.0 Major Closed
CSI-393 Allow user to set web part title and icon Major Closed
CSI-225 Allow for Kerberos and/or Certificates between SharePoint and Confluence Major Resolved
CSI-222 Update SSO FAQ items as appropriate Minor Resolved
CSI-198 Confluence Settings Validation Refresh Issue Trivial Closed
CSI-167 Make the methods found in SSOHelper instance methods vs. static methods Minor Closed
CSI-166 Move SSO "GetCredentials" code currently found in ConfluenceSettings to a new SharePoint-hosted web service Minor Closed
CSI-152 SharePoint Installer - Hide Logs if Successful Minor Closed


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