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hybrid federated search from SharePoint Server to SharePoint Online inconsistent search result
The SharePoint Online URL to get search results from
The protocol for getting those results
The method for authenticating against SharePoint Online
Result sources can be created at the Search service application level, the site collection level, or the site level. In this procedure, you create the result source at the Search service application level. This will make the result source available to any query rule that is created at the same level, and also to any query rule that is created for a site collection or site that is in a web application that consumes the Search service application.
Lewis-H In my case, the result source and the query rule seem to be configured correctly as it intermittently works properly. Also, if I do the opposite where the primary results are the online results and the result block displays the on-prem results then it works fine.
There are a lot of components involved here and most of them are not easily accessible (on-prem search components, SP online search, etc.) to view exactly what is happening. I was interested in knowing what causes may have been found and what they used for troubleshooting.
Rob_DF Sorry for the late answer. No we didn't resolve this. We choose a different path and stopped using the Hybrid Federated Search since it was so unstable and unreliable. Were you able to resolve it?
I finished configuring Outbound (& Inbound) hybrid Federated search about a month ago.
This seems like an expected behavior where only On-premises results are shown more often than not.This indeed is a time out issue where Onprem result come first and it stops looking for SPO results in block.
I am planning to open an Advisory case with Microsoft. Will post here if I have any updates on that.
