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Apr 04, 2017

SharePoint Online search crawl schedule

Can anyone explain how the search crawl is working in SharePoint Online? Is it based on continious crawl or on a schedule?

 

Are there some official guidelines or metrics around how long we can expect to wait before the search index is up-to-date after a change in SharePoint Online? I know that the time may vary depending on the overall state of the service, but we want some guidelines that we can present for our customers, so we are aligned on what to expect.

 

Thanks in advance.

 

 

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  • paulpascha's avatar
    paulpascha
    Bronze Contributor
    Apr 04, 2017

    The only official guidelines (I know off) are described in the SharePoint Online - Search service description

    https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj819291.aspx

     

    AFAIK detailed SLA-like information on indexing latency or crawl schedules is not available.

     

    From my experience and (quite a few) support cases around Search related issues only non-official and rather vague statements like "Microsoft strives to meet the goal of 95% of changes indexed within 1 hour" are being provided.

     

    Hope this helps!

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