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Dale Wilson's avatar
Dale Wilson
Copper Contributor
Apr 21, 2017

Teams site showing up in public Bing results

Today a team member did a random public search on Bing using some keywords from an ongoing project. The first result was a link to a file on our internal MS Teams site. Is this supposed to happen? Ho...
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Loryan Strant's avatar
Loryan Strant
MVP
Apr 21, 2017
That shouldn't happen at all, as those files would be stored in an Office 365 Group which is not indexable by search engines.
Are you sure they weren't searching across SharePoint as opposed to Bing? Did they actually go to Bing.com or did they just type the search into their address bar?
If you can supply a screenshot that would be helpful.
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jcgonzalezmartin
MVP
Apr 21, 2017

Wow, I have just tried to search by one of the tenant names I manage using Google and I got returned the Url of the SPO Admin....^-^ cc VasilMichev TonyRedmond FYI

  • TonyRedmond's avatar
    TonyRedmond
    MVP
    Apr 21, 2017

    I don't see any problems for my tenant but I would like to see the steps required to reproduce the issue to check against them...

     

    TR

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    VasilMichev
    MVP
    Apr 21, 2017

    Um, that sounds bad. I'm not able to reproduce it though, at least not with Team site/documents. My SPO admin site is visible in multiple articles, but that's my own fault :)

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      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Apr 21, 2017

      Yeap, try to simply make a search in google of your tenant name and tell me what you get :-)...just adding screenshot here

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        jcgonzalezmartin
        MVP
        Apr 21, 2017
        And by the way, Google only returns the SPO Admin Site Url...at least in the first two results pages
  • David Rosenthal's avatar
    David Rosenthal
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    Apr 21, 2017

    I'm not seeing anything like this for multiple tenants I have accounts on, including longstanding ones not just demo/dev tenants.

     

    Documents should absolutely not be showing up, not even just URLs that put you through an auth flow as those documents are not exposed to the public internet whatsoever so the search engines have no access to see them. Like Loryan, I'd want to see proof of this as that is a big deal if it is true. I'd also want full details of your configuration, especially whether you are running in hybrid and if so I'd recommend a serious audit of your network config to make sure the world isn't running around inside your SharePoint environment.

     

    For URLs of your tenant that are internet facing, it might not shock me for a search engine to catch those but someone would need credentials to get in obviously. All that is probably surfaced is whatever information the URL itself would offer, and if you're naming your tenants top secret names you should rethink that. :)

    • jcgonzalezmartin's avatar
      jcgonzalezmartin
      MVP
      Apr 21, 2017
      I was using Google in my case...
      • Pieter Veenstra's avatar
        Pieter Veenstra
        MVP
        Apr 21, 2017

        It only happens with Bing for me.

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