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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.

Note that if you are running Confluence on a Windows Server, you should ensure that the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 is installed. Microsoft .NET is required for Confluence in certain configurations (see the guide on Configuring Access to SharePoint with SP 2013 for more information).

You can download the .NET Framework 2.0 here (for the 32-bit version) or here (for the 64-bit version).

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.

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.
(Optional) For added functionality, you need Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 (Standard or Enterprise)
- SharePoint Server 2013 is required for the following features:
- 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

Feature	Supported in SharePoint Foundation 2013	Supported in SharePoint Server 2013
Embed Confluence content in SharePoint (Web Parts)
Embed SharePoint content in Confluence (Macros)
Integration with Microsoft Secure Store Service
Federated Search

Due to the substantial memory and CPU requirements of SharePoint, we recommend that you run Confluence and SharePoint on separate machines. For evaluation purposes, it is OK to run them both on the same machine.

Supported Configurations for Server to Server Communication

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.

Selecting your Configuration for Access to Confluence

Legacy SharePoint Connector > Planning your Environment with SP 2013 (v 1.9) > AuthenticationFlowchartConfluence.png

Note to authors: 23 June 2012: Edit the diagram in Gliffy below, but display the png image as above, because Gliffy currently does not display all elements of the image.

Unsupported Configurations

Next Step

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