SharePoint Site Mapping Tool
- Last Edited October 6, 2026
- by Garenne Bigby
A common question we get at DYNO Mapper is, “How do you create a sitemap for a SharePoint site?” DYNO Mapper’s crawler and site-mapping tool can build sitemaps for most SharePoint websites — both public-facing and private intranets behind a login URL accessible from any browser. This guide walks through how the integration works in 2026, including authentication setup, what data is captured, and how the output ties into the rest of DYNO Mapper’s governance toolkit.
How to generate a sitemap of SharePoint sites
What is SharePoint?
Microsoft SharePoint is a collaboration and content-management platform used by most large organizations to host intranets, document libraries, team sites, and communication portals. Two major flavors:
- SharePoint Online — the cloud version included with Microsoft 365 plans. The dominant deployment model in 2026.
- SharePoint Server — on-premises (currently Subscription Edition, with 2016/2019 still in active support; SharePoint 2013 left support April 2023). Used in regulated industries and organizations with on-prem requirements.
SharePoint scales to thousands of sites and millions of documents per tenant, which makes the structure hard to visualize without dedicated tooling. Visual sitemaps, content inventories, and accessibility audits all benefit from a crawler that handles SharePoint’s authentication and rendering specifics.
Connect your SharePoint site in three fields
Crawling a private SharePoint site used to mean building a custom authentication sequence by hand. That’s no longer the case. From your dashboard, click Create Project, then select Create from SharePoint.
Enter three things:
- Subdomain — a subdomain, a SharePoint address, or a full site URL all work.
- Username
- Password
Click Create Project, and DYNO Mapper handles the SharePoint sign-in flow itself — no custom login sequence, no CSS selectors, nothing to configure by hand.
We recommend using a dedicated, read-only SharePoint account rather than a personal one — more on why below.
SharePoint mapping is not available in the free trial; an active DYNO Mapper subscription is required to use the authentication feature.
If your account requires multi-factor authentication
If MFA is enabled on the account you’re using, DYNO Mapper will prompt you during sign-in. Microsoft Authenticator number matching and one-time passcodes are both supported. If MFA isn’t required, the crawl simply continues.
There’s a reason DYNO Mapper doesn’t schedule automatic recurring crawls of private SharePoint sites: we never store your credentials. You enter them each time you start a crawl or refresh, which means there’s nothing sitting in a database to schedule against. That also means MFA gets handled live, each time, rather than needing a workaround.
If you’d rather not respond to an MFA prompt on every crawl, you can set up a Conditional Access exemption so your dedicated crawl account skips the prompt entirely — without changing MFA for anyone else in your tenant.
What information does DYNO Mapper store?
DYNO Mapper stores only URLs, meta information, and crawl data from the pages and links found. It does not save page or document content, and only keeps what’s necessary to visualize the information architecture. DYNO Mapper does not store usernames or passwords — credentials are entered fresh each time a crawl is initiated, which keeps them out of any persistent store.
Built on infrastructure your security team can verify
- SOC 2 compliant and ISO 27001 certified.
- Single sign-on via SAML or OIDC for your own DYNO Mapper account, with MFA your admins can make mandatory for every sub-user — no individual bypass.
None of that is filler — it’s what a security review is going to ask for anyway.
What other features are available for SharePoint?
- Content Inventory — full catalog of pages, documents, and assets across your SharePoint estate.
- Content Audit — surface duplicates, stale content, ownership gaps, and pages overdue for review.
- Accessibility Testing — scan SharePoint pages and PDFs against WCAG 2.2 Level AA. Particularly relevant for public-sector tenants under the U.S. DOJ’s April 2024 Title II final rule (deadlines: April 26, 2027 for jurisdictions of 50,000+; April 26, 2028 for smaller jurisdictions per the April 2026 Interim Final Rule), Section 504, and the European Accessibility Act (effective June 28, 2025).
- D.A.C.Q. Score — a single health score across discoverability, accessibility, and content quality, purpose-built for private intranets where public search visibility isn’t a meaningful signal.
Combining sitemap, inventory, and accessibility scans into a single workflow gives admins and governance leads the visibility SharePoint at enterprise scale actually requires.