SharePoint Crawl and Tellignet Sites

I am having about the same issue with attempting to crawl the Telligent site from SharePoint. Setting up the Telligent URL as an external site. Anyone have some ideas for us to try?

Telligent uses a role based system for providing security which is different than SharePoint making it difficult to crawl.

Here are some options you may want to look into.

1. Build an OpenSearch plugin around Telligent Search and use it as a SharePoint Federated OpenSearch provider.
   1. This could be as simple as providing a service that returns anonymous search results in the OpenSearch format (avoiding security issues)
   2. A more advanced approach would be to try and extract the cookie information and then return search results provided by the OpenSearch protocol (giving security trimmed results)
   3. The issue here is that the results are not integrated and require two separate WebParts; one for SharePoint and one for Telligent search results.
2. Build a BCS service that can plug into SharePoint Search Service where the BCS would contain a generated ACLs that SharePoint could use for security trimming.
   1. This is a more complex approach but would provide an integrated result set in SharePoint
   2. The problem would be mapping Roles to ACLs in SharePoint
3. If Telligent is using cookie authentication, setup a crawl rule.
   1. Go to Search Service Application > Crawl Rules > New Crawl Rule
   2. Under Specify Authentication select Use Cookie for crawling

Please note the information above has not been tested.