Connecting Jive with SharePoint

To create the initial connection between Jive and SharePoint, you'll need to provide information about the relevant SharePoint user groups, your chosen authentication schemes, and the URLs of your Jive and SharePoint sites.

1. Click New Connection.
2. In the Authentication type field, choose how Jive will authenticate to SharePoint. (SharePoint-to-Jive authentication is always handled by sending a token to SharePoint via a service API.) NTLM and Kerberos are both supported. Note that if you use claims authentication, you should extend the SharePoint web application to use a different authentication type and a different address. This will enable your regular web application to continue working in claims. You can find more information about extending the web application here.
3. In the Connection Name field, provide a name to identify the connection.
4. In the Site Collection field, provide the full URL of the SharePoint site collection you want to link to your Jive site. Use the same address a user would use to access the site.
5. In the SharePoint Domain field, provide the domain name. If your SharePoint domain is secured with Kerberos, a fully qualified domain name is required.
6. Provide the username and password of an account with administrator rights to the site collection you're connecting to. To ensure continuous uptime, you should set the password for this account to never expire.
7. Specify the Everyone principal and a the Full Control principal in the appropriate fields. If you need to specify more than one principal in a field, you can separate them with semicolons (;).
8. In the SharePoint-Facing URL field, specify the URL of the Jive site you want to connect to.
9. In the Parent URL for New Sites field, specify the container URL for new connected sites on the SharePoint end. For example, you might use a parent URL structure like this: http://spc-domain.spc-domain.com/sites/Jive. The default URL is the root site of the site collection.
10. If you want searching of SharePoint content to be included in Jive search results:
    1. Select search enabled.
    2. Provide a URL where SharePoint search results will be displayed. For example, you might use a URL with this structure: http://yoursharepointsite.com/sites/Jive/_layouts/OSSSearchResults.aspx?k={searchTerms}
    3. Decide the search scope. By site searches within the entire site. By list searches within a list.
    4. Specify the maximum number of results returned in the initial Jive search results. Users can go into SharePoint for the complete result set.)