Federate Net Weaver and SharePoint
December 28, 2008
The new year approaches, and you have SAP Net Weaver and Microsoft SharePoint. You want to spend a few minutes making it possible to run one query and retrieve results from each system. Trivial? You bet. In case some of the steps are a tad uncertain, you will want to peruse the SAP white paper here. The title of this useful document is “Federated Search between SAP Net Weaver Enterprise Search and Microsoft Search Server 2008 Using Open Search and SSO.” The authors are SAP wizards Andre Fischer, Pedro Arrontes, and Holger Brucheit. The 15 page document is SAP centric, and the key is to use SAP’s Open Search interface. The paper assumes you know how this middleware and its method works. If you are fuzzy in Open Search particulars, the white paper provides links to other documents in the SAP technical library. If you want to jump right in, fire up Net Weaver and use the built in templates to specify where the data are and their format. The white paper assumes that you will be using SAP’s security and access control system, which might be incorrect if SAP plays a secondary role in your organization. The information for configuring SharePoint walks through the specific graphical interface settings to use and, thankfully, includes the scripts needed to make SharePoint play nice with Net Weaver. If you work through the white paper and your federating doesn’t federate, SAP has included some troubleshooting tips. Enjoy.
Stephen Arnold, December 28, 2008
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