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If you get crazy Axis errors when the connector is trying to use the MCPermissions plugin, it is conceivable that you have a non-standard version of SharePoint. To make sure you have a compatible version of SharePoint, the obvious thing to do is to find the version of your sharepoint.dll. The dll should be in one of the standard locations where assembly dlls are deployed on your server. The assembly name is Microsoft.SharePoint.dll - nothing else, not MicrosoftOffice, or anything else. There are a number of tools for determining the .NET version of such DLLs; here's a link that might help: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/227886/how-do-i-determine-the-dependencies-of-a-net-application. The ManifoldCF-Sharepoint-2013 plugin is built against:
<Reference Include="Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c, processorArchitecture=MSIL" />
The ManifoldCF-SharePoint-2010 plugin is built against:
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