On-Premises Connection/Auth for Transformation Testing

[pkbullock]

Category

• [x] Feature request

Describe the feature

Add capability to connect to on-premise servers for transformation. We currently lack (AFAIK) authentication mechanism for connect to on-premises sources for testing. At the moment, all the authentication is currently designed for SharePoint Online or the Graph.

Describe the solution you'd like

So PnP Core SDK isn't intended to be used for on-premises connections only online. Except the transformation tech requires on-premises connections for the SP2013,16,19,SE versions for converting to online.

I am implementing the connection logic in the test class as a supporting mechanism - reusing much of the existing code in PnP.Framework, since this has the code to connect to the data sources.

Why Am I doing this?

During initial testing of the new modernisation tech, all on-premises transformations fail when using via PnP PowerShell (latest nightly build) that uses the Invoke-PnPTransformation cmdlets. I want to be able to debug the tooling independently of using PnP.Framework and PnP Powershell.

[pkbullock]

Related to #799

[pkbullock]

Keeping this open as, discussion needed for the auth aspect.

[jansenbe]

Closing for now, will re-open if this effort will be picked up again