topic Re: Sharepoint Connector Site Limitation in Data Engineering

Sharepoint Connector Site Limitation

TX-Aggie-00 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:12:04 GMT

Hey All!

We are trying out the Beta connector for SharePoint and found that the connector will not work at the root-level site. Is there a reason for this limitation. It is unfortunately a hard blocker for us to use the native connector.

MUST_START_WITH_SITES

Path must start with '/sites/' or '/teams/', got 'pathComponent'.

Do anyone know if this is just a beta limitation and, if so, if it will be removed in the future?

Thanks,
Scott

Re: Sharepoint Connector Site Limitation

saravjeet — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:58:54 GMT

How you have made the connection, the reason I am asking because, We have two separete tenants (sharepoint in a separate tenant) and databricks setup in a differenet tenant, at the moment we are using the logic app to bring the data into the platform. I know we need to have a principal who have the access to the sharpoint tenant but in our case, IT teams are not allowing to grant the access which is required to pull the data and we are looking for the ways how to bring the data and what are the possible solutions around it. Thanks.

Re: Sharepoint Connector Site Limitation

TX-Aggie-00 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:28:20 GMT

Hey Saravjeet, we are currently working in the same tenant. Not sure the connector has an issue with tenant to tenant but we had to revert to graph api's to sync. We are still using logic apps to capture deletes and add those to a storage queue. We have race condition logic to accommodate both processes and that would still be the case if we used the connector, since deletes are not captured (as far as I can tell).

Thanks
Scott

Re: Sharepoint Connector Site Limitation

emma_s — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:09:23 GMT

Hi Scott,

Just asking our product team the quesiton. By the root level site do you mean content that is stored on the root level site? Or do you mean everything across your root tennant. ie you want to ingest all files across your tennant in a single pipeline? If its the root tennant then they will be building support for this in the managed connector hopeully launching next quarter.

Thanks,

Emma