SharePoint Connector for Confluence
– FAQ
What is the SharePoint Connector for Confluence?
The Connector bridges the widely used enterprise wiki, Atlassian Confluence, with Microsoft's SharePoint, the enterprise productivity platform with 80 million users. Now users can access and share content across these two popular technologies.
What are the benefits of connecting SharePoint and Confluence?
Different users in a company want to use different technologies to get their work done. With the popularity of different collaboration platforms and tools, organisations are concerned about islands of content; they want useful ways to search and find content in different systems. Rather than restricting adoption of new collaboration technologies, a better solution would be to connect them. Given the popularity SharePoint and Confluence, the new bridge will help both loyal Microsoft users and committed Atlassian users achieve their goals. Read on for additional benefits associated with connecting the two platforms.
Why did Microsoft choose to partner with Atlassian?
To realize its goal of making SharePoint a social computing platform. Microsoft is embracing partners who are leaders in Web 2.0 technologies. With over 12,000 customers in 104 countries, Atlassian was a natural strategic partner with its community of committed enterprise wiki users. Microsoft and Atlassian also share a high percentage of customers including their beta customer, Johns Hopkins University.
How do Atlassian's Confluence customers benefit?
In addition to many customers asking for this bridge, the successful adoption of wikis is about adding a new way to collaborate, not replacing proven technology. SharePoint is the highest priority for building a connector in the opinion of our customers.
What versions of SharePoint and Confluence does this connector work with?
The SharePoint Connector works with WSS v3, MOSS 2007 Standard, and MOSS 2007 Enterprise. However, some features are only available in MOSS. For more information on please see the documentation.
The SharePoint Connector requires Confluence 2.5.7 or later.
Will the SharePoint Connector support support future versions of MOSS?
Yes.
Can a single instance of Confluence with the SharePoint Connector installed connect to multiple SharePoint servers?
Currently you are only able to connect to a single SharePoint web application.
Who do I contact for more information?
For sales information, please contact sales@atlassian.com.
To discuss the connector, see the Connector Forum.