SharePoint & OneDrive

OpenClaw SharePoint Integration: Enterprise Document Intelligence

SharePoint and OneDrive power document collaboration for millions of organizations worldwide. With the OpenClaw SharePoint integration, your AI assistant becomes a powerful interface to your enterprise content — searching across sites, retrieving documents, sharing files through chat, and understanding your organization's knowledge base.

Whether you're looking for that quarterly report buried in a team site, need to share a contract with a colleague, or want to search across your entire organization's documents, your OpenClaw assistant handles it through natural conversation.

Why SharePoint + AI Makes Sense

Enterprise professionals spend an estimated 20% of their time searching for documents. With content spread across multiple SharePoint sites, team libraries, and OneDrive folders, finding the right file often means opening browsers, navigating folder structures, and trying different search terms.

The OpenClaw SharePoint AI integration changes this entirely. Ask your assistant "Find the Q3 marketing plan" or "What's our current expense policy?" and get instant results. Your assistant searches across all sites and drives you have access to, respecting your organization's permission model.

Microsoft Graph API: The Foundation

This integration uses the Microsoft Graph API — the same API that powers Microsoft's own applications. This means:

• Official API: No scraping or unofficial access. Everything goes through Microsoft's supported endpoints.
• Permission model respected: You only see files you're authorized to access. Your assistant can't bypass SharePoint permissions.
• Audit trail: All access is logged through standard Microsoft 365 audit logs.
• Enterprise features: Works with sensitivity labels, retention policies, and compliance features.

SharePoint Sites vs. OneDrive: Understanding the Difference

SharePoint and OneDrive are closely related but serve different purposes:

SharePoint Sites are shared team spaces:

• Team sites for departments, projects, or workgroups
• Document libraries shared across teams
• Communication sites for company news
• Typically organized around teams, projects, or topics

OneDrive for Business is personal cloud storage:

• Your individual files synced to the cloud
• Files you've created or others have shared with you
• Personal workspace with selective sharing

Your OpenClaw assistant searches both, giving you a unified view of all your accessible content.

OneDrive Personal vs. OneDrive for Business

Microsoft offers two versions of OneDrive:

OneDrive Personal (consumer):

• Tied to personal Microsoft accounts (@outlook.com, @hotmail.com)
• For personal photos, documents, and files
• Consumer privacy policies apply

OneDrive for Business (enterprise):

• Part of Microsoft 365 / Office 365
• Tied to your work or school account
• Subject to organizational policies and compliance
• Integrates with SharePoint and Teams

The OpenClaw SharePoint integration supports OneDrive for Business through Microsoft Graph. For personal OneDrive, you'd use consumer Microsoft Graph endpoints with different authentication.

Document Search and Retrieval

Search is where this integration shines. Microsoft's search indexes content, metadata, and even text within documents. Your assistant leverages this to:

• Full-text search: Find documents by content, not just filename
• Metadata filtering: Search by author, date modified, file type, or custom properties
• Cross-site search: Query across all SharePoint sites you can access
• Contextual understanding: Ask "What did we decide about the pricing strategy?" and get relevant documents

When you find what you need, your assistant can:

• Show you a preview or summary of the document
• Download the file to your local machine
• Share a link for collaboration
• Extract specific information from the content

File Sharing Through Chat

Need to share a document with a colleague? Tell your assistant:

• "Share the Q4 budget spreadsheet with Sarah"
• "Send a link to the onboarding guide to the new hire"
• "Give the legal team view access to the contract folder"

Your assistant creates sharing links with appropriate permissions:

• View only: Recipients can read but not edit
• Edit access: Recipients can modify the document
• Organization links: Anyone in your org with the link can access
• Specific people: Restricted to named individuals

Sharing respects your organization's policies. If external sharing is disabled, your assistant won't create external links.

Enterprise Permissions and Compliance

Enterprise environments have strict requirements. The OpenClaw SharePoint integration works within these constraints:

Permission inheritance: Documents inherit permissions from their library and site. Your assistant respects this hierarchy.

Sensitivity labels: If your organization uses Microsoft Information Protection labels (Confidential, Internal Only, etc.), these are preserved and enforced.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP): DLP policies that prevent sharing sensitive content externally are respected.

Retention policies: Documents under legal hold or retention requirements are handled according to policy.

Audit logging: All access through the integration appears in Microsoft 365 audit logs, maintaining your compliance posture.

Authentication and Security

The integration uses Azure AD OAuth 2.0 authentication:

1. App registration: You create an app registration in Azure AD for OpenClaw
2. Delegated permissions: Access uses your user identity, not app-only access
3. Consent flow: You grant permission through Microsoft's consent screen
4. Token refresh: Access tokens refresh automatically without re-authentication
5. MFA support: Works with multi-factor authentication and conditional access

For organizations with strict security requirements:

• App can be restricted to specific users or groups
• Conditional access policies can require compliant devices
• Tenant-level restrictions can limit which tenants the app accesses

Common Use Cases

Document discovery: "Find all presentations about our product roadmap from the last 6 months"

Policy lookup: "What's our current travel expense policy?" — searches policy libraries and returns the relevant document

Contract search: "Find contracts with Acme Corp" — searches across deal rooms and contract repositories

Meeting prep: "Get me the latest board deck" — finds and retrieves the most recent board presentation

Knowledge management: "How do we handle customer data requests?" — searches internal wikis and documentation sites

File sharing: "Share the proposal PDF with the sales team" — creates and sends appropriate sharing link

Working with Document Content

Beyond just finding files, your assistant can work with document content:

• Summarize documents: Get a quick overview of lengthy reports
• Extract data: Pull tables, figures, or key points from documents
• Compare versions: Understand changes between document versions
• Answer questions: "According to the employee handbook, how many vacation days do we get?"

This works best with text-based documents (Word, PDF, text). Images and complex spreadsheets may require downloading for full analysis.

Integration with Other Microsoft 365 Services

SharePoint doesn't exist in isolation. Your assistant can coordinate across Microsoft 365:

• Teams + SharePoint: Files shared in Teams channels are stored in SharePoint. Search finds them all.
• Outlook + OneDrive: Attachments sent via OneDrive links are searchable.
• Planner + SharePoint: Task attachments in Planner reference SharePoint files.

With multiple OpenClaw integrations configured (Outlook, Teams, SharePoint), your assistant provides a unified view of your Microsoft 365 environment.

Performance and Limits

Microsoft Graph has rate limits and throttling:

• Search: Handles typical enterprise search patterns well
• Large downloads: Very large files may take time; consider direct browser access
• Bulk operations: Mass file operations may be throttled

Your assistant handles throttling gracefully, retrying as needed. For intensive operations, you might see slightly slower responses.

Getting Started

Setup requires Azure AD app registration and configuration. The process takes about 20-30 minutes:

1. Register an application in Azure AD
2. Configure Microsoft Graph API permissions
3. Set up authentication flow
4. Configure OpenClaw with your app credentials
5. Authenticate and start searching

Detailed steps are in the Setup section below. You'll need Azure AD admin access or help from your IT department for the app registration.

For IT Administrators

If you're setting this up for your organization:

• Least privilege: Grant only necessary Graph API permissions
• User consent vs admin consent: Decide whether users can self-authorize
• Scoping: Consider limiting to specific sites or users
• Monitoring: Use Microsoft 365 audit logs to monitor access
• Documentation: Document the app registration for your team

The integration is designed for enterprise deployment. It works within your existing security and compliance framework, not around it.