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title: 'How to Configure Sharepoint Knowledge Ingestion [Classic]'
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  Sharepoint Knowledge ingestion allows you to ingest the site content from your
  Sharepoint pages.
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  This page is for the **Microsoft Graph and SharePoint Online classic connectors**.

  To utilize the new enterprise search configuration experience using the **SharePoint and OneDrive (Next Gen)** connector, please visit [this documentation](/docs/sharepoint-online-and-onedrive-setup-for-enterprise-search).
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### Pre-Requisites

* Please ensure the required SharePoint Connector has been created with the necessary permissions. Please refer the **[SharePoint API Access Requirements Doc](/docs/sharepoint-online-access-requirements-new-1)** for details.
* Please ensure the Service Account being used for connecting to SharePoint has access to the **Sites** we want to ingest from.

### Configuration

Start by creating a new Ingestion under **Answers > Ingestion > Internal Knowledge Settings**

* First, select the **Connector** which was created for the ingestion and then provide a name for the ingestion. under _Ingestion Name_.
* Then, choose a **Domain**. The domain is the functional areas of employee service that is most related to the knowledge being ingested for this configuration.
* In order to ingest articles from a SharePoint Site, users would need to define the Start URL. They commonly follow the below structure :

  * **Site Pages**
    * ```
      https://<instance-name>.sharepoint.com/sites/<site-name>/_api/SitePages/Pages?$top=10&$skip=0
      ```
    * ```
      https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/<instance-name>.sharepoint.com:/sites/<site-name>:/pages
      ```
  * **Teams Site Pages**
    * ```
      https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/sites/<instance-name>.sharepoint.com:/teams/<teams-site-name>:/pages_
      ```
    * ```
      https://<instance-name>.sharepoint.com/teams/<teams-site-name>/_api/SitePages/Pages?$top=100&$skip=0
      ```

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* Users also need to provide the Article Url in order for us to generate this for all the ingested Articles. The field that controls this is the **Article Url Override** filed under Field Overrides.

### Validation

* Once you have submitted the Knowledge ingestion configuration, it will kick off the Ingestion pipeline in the background, the status of the same can be tracked on the [Ingested Knowledge View](/docs/ingested-knowledge-internal-faq)
* You can search for the Articles with their Title's here, and if they are listing on the Console that means they have been ingested successfully.
* Please note, only Site Pages in the `Published` state are ingested into the AI Assistant. See [Microsoft documentation](https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/management-and-lifecycle-of-a-sharepoint-modern-page-3410a04c-3ca4-4a4c-b867-33ab5c8bdcf3) for more details on Sharepoint page lifecycle.