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title: "What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use?"  
description: "What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use?"  
author: "Chris Anderson"  
published: 2011-09-07  
updated: 2020-09-22  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/1199/what-authentication-type-does-the-sharepoint-crawler-use  
category: "sharepoint"  
tags: ["sharepoint"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What authentication type does the SharePoint crawler use?

The crawl component requires access to content using NTLM authentication.

## Answers

### Answer by Chris Anderson

The crawl component requires access to content using NTLM authentication.


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