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hybrid federated search from SharePoint Server to SharePoint Online inconsistent search result
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.
