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title: "How to Authenticate to SharePoint On-Premise"
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# How to Authenticate to SharePoint On-Premise

This article describes how to authenticate to your SharePoint On-Premise with Spirion Sensitive Data Platform.

## Overview

This article describes how to authenticate to your SharePoint On-Premise with Spirion Sensitive Data Platform.

Note that authenticating with SharePoint is a very different process compared to:

-   Authenticating through Modern Authentication (SharePoint in the Cloud)
-   The same authentication process performed in Spirion Data Manager (SDM)

Specific Differences:

-   Setting up the Target requires different information
-   Use this guide to authenticate to **SharePoint On-Premise**

 Before you begin:

-   Ensure the **service account** you are using is a **site collection admin** for each site being searched.

### In This Article

-   Adding a SharePoint On-Premises Target
-   -   ADFS Configuration
    -   Non-ADFS Configuration

## How to Add a SharePoint On-Premises Target in Spirion Sensitive Data Platform

Procedure:

1.  From the left side navigation menu, click **Data Asset Inventory**.  
      
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2.  Next, click **Data Assets and Targets**.  
      
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3.  Click the **Targets** tab at the top of the page.  
      
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4.  Click the blue **Actions** button and select **Add Target** from the drop-down menu.  
      
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5.  Enter a descriptive name for your SharePoint On-Premise Target in the field **Target Name**.
6.  Next, click the tile **Collaboration Tools**.  
      
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7.  Next, click the **SharePoint/SharePoint Online** tile.  
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8.  Complete the following fields in the “Add New SharePoint Target” pop-up (shown below, after step "d." with sample values).
9.  -   **Address**
    -   **Domain**
    -   **Username**
    -   **Password**
    -   **Identity Provider ID**
    -   1.  This information can be identified on the ADFS server
        2.  Navigate and connect to the ADFS server
        3.  Find the ADFS management tool on the server
        4.  -   In the Windows search bar enter the search term “AD FS”
            -   Open the **ADFS management tool**
            -   Click the ‘Relying Party Trusts’ folder
            -   Click the policy listed
            -   Click the **Properties** link
            -   Click the **Identifiers** tab of the **Properties** window
            -   The **Relying Party Identifiers** box of the **Identifiers** tab maintains the Identity Provider ID  
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        5.  **Security Token Service**  
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## How to Configure ADFS

Procedure:

1.  This information can be identified on the **ADFS server**
2.  1.  Navigate and connect to the ADFS server
    2.  Find the **ADFS management tool** on the server
    3.  1.  In the Windows search bar search “AD FS"
    4.  Open the **ADFS management tool** and expand the Services window
    5.  Click the **Certificates** folder.
    6.  Identify the value nested in the **CN=** statement**.**
    7.  1.  ***Note –*** *Only the information* ***AFTER*** *the characters* *"****CN=****"* *is required for this value.*  
              
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## How to Configure Non-ADFS

Procedure:

1.  The following field configurations are required:
2.  1.  Address
    2.  Domain
    3.  Username
    4.  Password
    5.  Identity Provider ID
    6.  Security Token Service
    7.  -   ***Note – IDPID and STS are NOT required for non-ADFS on prem SharePoint***