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# Reference

# External Content Connectors reference {#ariaid-title1}

Release version: Australia  
Updated March 12, 2026  
![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 1 minute to read  
Reference information for the External Content Connectors application and for individual external content connectors.
* **[Components installed with External Content Connectors](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/4Yw1Z_5lrZ6etm686zNq2w)**   
  The External Content Connectors plugin installs a connector administrator role and a scheduled job to remove unused OAuth 2.0 credentials for deleted external content connectors.
* **[Binary file extensions supported in External Content Connectors](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/wyAI934z2WbwQ_js9LjRqA)**   
  Connector administrators can restrict the binary file types an external content connector retrieves by specifying file extensions in inclusion or exclusion filters.
* **[Statistics for external content connector content crawls](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/_8vdF~dbaVecnXswOoi7JQ)**   
  Each crawl history entry for an external content connector's content crawl includes statistics about the documents (items or files with searchable content and metadata) retrieved by the crawl.
* **[Statistics for external content connector user permission crawls](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/KFG3uY25U72ONN4d0YWg4w)**   
  Each crawl history entry for an external content connector's user permission crawl crawl includes statistics about the permissions (user and group-membership security principals) retrieved by the crawl.
* **[Analytics for external content connectors](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/J23S78hdtJ97o_3bN3m57w)**   
  Metrics that show how your external content connector has run over time.
* **[Reassign the External Content Connectors Service Account user to the global domain](https://servicenow-prod.fluidtopics.net/H~YobRYUG0aw_g3BtqP~KQ)**   
  Fix issues with missing user permissions for users on your instance by reassigning the External Content Connectors Service Account user to the global domain.