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Integrate With Microsoft SharePoint

If your organization has Microsoft SharePoint (that is implemented within your Intranet), integration with CA Open Space requires some additional integration configuration. This configuration requires a SharePoint server that can be accessed from the Internet. The SharePoint server can either be your primary application server, if it is accessible from the Internet, or a secondary server could be deployed in the DMZ.

Follow these steps:

1. Open the SharePoint Central Administration Site.
2. Select the Operations tab.
3. Under Global Configuration, click Alternate access mappings.
4. Click Add Internal URL.
5. Select the Alternate access mappings collection for the SharePoint site that you want to connect to CA Open Space.
6. Add all CA Open Space server hostname URLs. CA Technologies provides the hostnames.

   Example: http://<opensapceserver hostname>/

Once you add the hostnames to the SharePoint Alternate access mappings, you can integrate CA Open Space with your SharePoint instance.

You can integrate CA Open Space with Microsoft SharePoint.

Follow these steps:

1. From the Data Sources page, click the Edit icon for the Microsoft SharePoint data source.
2. To configure the integration, complete the fields as follows:

   NAME

   Defines the data source name.

   URL

   Defines the URL of your web service that your SharePoint server hosts and is accessible from the Internet.

   Value: http://<hostname>

   USER NAME

   Identifies the user name of a user who has access to documents stored in SharePoint. This name is used for authentication for the search API. However, it is the logged in user that determines the document access level.

   PASSWORD

   Identifies the password of the user that is listed for User Name. This password is used for authentication.

3. If you enabled the CA Open Space Connection, select YES to use it.
4. Click Test Connection to test the integration connection.
5. If the test is not successful, review the data that you entered and correct as necessary.
6. When you are ready to enable the data source for your organization, set the STATUS to Enabled.
7. Click Save.

   CA Open Space is integrated with your SharePoint server and the data source is available for your users.