File Shares as Content Source in SharePoint 2013 On Premises

Hi all!

Another quick post about file shares and SharePoint:

  1. Identify your crawl account, because this account will be used to index the file share (unless specified differently with a crawl rule), so it is necessary to have read access to the file share to this account
  2. If crawled files in file share system contain metadata, this will be used by the search refiners in SharePoint
  3. Security trimming is respected, so when end users search the document in the search site, it will be displayed according to the permissions given on the files and folders.
  4. Only metadata of the documents will be stored in SharePoint, not the documents
  5. It is not possible to get a preview from Office documents that are stored in File Shares, to get a preview, you’ll need to use third party tools.

That’s all!

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