Connection String Options

The connection string properties are the various options that can be used to establish a connection. This section provides a complete list of the options you can configure in the connection string for this provider. Click the links for further details.

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Auth Scheme	The scheme used for authenticating to SharePoint. For On-Premise instances, accepted entries are NTLM, Basic, Digest, Forms, None, and Negotiate. NTLM is the default. For Sharepoint Online, the accepted entries are OAuth and OAuthJWT.
Azure Environment	The Azure Environment to use when establishing a connection.
Azure Tenant	The Microsoft Online tenant being used to access data. If not specified, your default tentant will be used.
Calculated Data Type	The data type to be used for calculated fields.
Callback URL	The OAuth callback URL to return to when authenticating. This value must match the callback URL you specify in your Add-In settings.
Continue On Error	Indicates whether or not to continue updating items in a batch after an error.
Create ID Columns	Indicates whether or not to create supplemental ID columns for SharePoint columns that use values from information stored in other Lists.
Firewall Password	A password used to authenticate to a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Port	The TCP port for a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Server	The name or IP address of a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall Type	The protocol used by a proxy-based firewall.
Firewall User	The user name to use to authenticate with a proxy-based firewall.
Folder Option	An option to determine how to display folders in results. Enter either FilesOnly, FilesAndFolders, Recursive, or RecursiveAll.
Include Lookup Columns	This option controls whether the driver returns the lookup columns defined on a table.
Initiate OAuth	Set this property to initiate the process to obtain or refresh the OAuth access token when you connect.
Kerberos KDC	The Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) service used to authenticate the user.
Kerberos Keytab File	The Keytab file containing your pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys.
Kerberos Realm	The Kerberos Realm used to authenticate the user with.
Kerberos Service KDC	The Kerberos KDC of the service.
Kerberos Service Realm	The Kerberos realm of the service.
Kerberos SPN	The service principal name (SPN) for the Kerberos Domain Controller.
Kerberos Ticket Cache	The full file path to an MIT Kerberos credential cache file.
Location	A path to the directory that contains the schema files defining tables, views, and stored procedures.
Log Modules	Core modules to be included in the log file.
Max Rows	Limits the number of rows returned rows when no aggregation or group by is used in the query. This helps avoid performance issues at design time.
OAuth Access Token	The access token for connecting using OAuth.
OAuth Client Id	The client ID assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.
OAuth Client Secret	The client secret assigned when you register your application with an OAuth authorization server.
OAuth Expires In	The lifetime in seconds of the OAuth AccessToken.
OAuth Grant Type	The grant type for the OAuth flow.
OAuth JWT Cert	The JWT Certificate store.
OAuth JWT Cert Password	The password for the OAuth JWT certificate.
OAuth JWT Cert Subject	The subject of the OAuth JWT certificate.
OAuth JWT Cert Type	The type of key store containing the JWT Certificate.
OAuth JWT Issuer	The issuer of the Java Web Token.
OAuth JWT Subject	The user subject for which the application is requesting delegated access.
OAuth Refresh Token	The OAuth refresh token for the corresponding OAuth access token.
OAuth Settings Location	The location of the settings file where OAuth values are saved when InitiateOAuth is set to GETANDREFRESH or REFRESH. Alternatively, this can be held in memory by specifying a value starting with memory://.
OAuth Token Timestamp	The Unix epoch timestamp in milliseconds when the current Access Token was created.
OAuth Verifier	The verifier code returned from the OAuth authorization URL.
Other	These hidden properties are used only in specific use cases.
Pagesize	The maximum number of results to return per page from SharePoint.
Password	The password used to authenticate the user.
Proxy Auth Scheme	The authentication type to use to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy Auto Detect	This indicates whether to use the system proxy settings or not. This takes precedence over other proxy settings, so you'll need to set ProxyAutoDetect to FALSE in order use custom proxy settings.
Proxy Exceptions	A semicolon separated list of destination hostnames or IPs that are exempt from connecting through the ProxyServer .
Proxy Password	A password to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy Port	The TCP port the ProxyServer proxy is running on.
Proxy Server	The hostname or IP address of a proxy to route HTTP traffic through.
Proxy SSL Type	The SSL type to use when connecting to the ProxyServer proxy.
Proxy User	A user name to be used to authenticate to the ProxyServer proxy.
Readonly	You can use this property to enforce read-only access to SharePoint from the provider.
Schema	The type of schema to use.
Share Point Edition	The edition of SharePoint being used. Set either SharePoint Online or SharePoint On-Premise.
Show Hidden Columns	Boolean determining if hidden columns should be shown or not. If false, all hidden columns will be removed from the column listing.
Show Predefined Columns	Boolean determining if predefined columns should be shown or not. If false, all columns derived from a base type will be removed from the column listing.
Show Version Views	Indicate whether to display the view of list versions. Such as ListA_Versions.
SSL Client Cert	The TLS/SSL client certificate store for SSL Client Authentication (2-way SSL).
SSL Client Cert Password	The password for the TLS/SSL client certificate.
SSL Client Cert Subject	The subject of the TLS/SSL client certificate.
SSL Client Cert Type	The type of key store containing the TLS/SSL client certificate.
SSL Server Cert	The certificate to be accepted from the server when connecting using TLS/SSL.
SSO Domain	The domain of the user when using single sign-on (SSO).
SSO Login URL	The identity provider's login URL.
SSO Password	The password of the SSOProvider used to authenticate the user.
SSO Properties	Additional properties required to connect to the identity provider in a semicolon-separated list.
SSO Provider	The name of the SSO provider you are trying to authenticate.
SSO User	The SSOProvider user account used to authenticate.
STSURL	The URL of the security token service (STS) when using single sign-on (SSO).
Timeout	The value in seconds until the timeout error is thrown, canceling the operation.
URL	The base URL for the site.
Use Display Names	Boolean determining if the display names for the columns should be used instead of the API names.
Use NTLMV1	Determines whether the driver will attempt to connect with NTLMv1 or NTLMv2 (default).
User	The SharePoint user account used to authenticate.
Use Simple Names	Boolean determining if simple names should be used for tables and columns.
Use SSO	Whether or not to use single sign-on (SSO) to authenticate to SharePoint Online.