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Modern team sites crawled but not searchable in SharePoint Online
Hi,
lately, any newly created modern team site is not searchable either through SharePoint Home (Graph) or classic search center. At first I only noticed that I couldn't find any item in a document library or list but quickly realized that nothing from the site is retrievable. I used the SharePoint Search Query Tool to search for anything on a affected modern team site but absolutely zero results are returned.
The affected modern team sites are Office 365 group connected site collections behind Microsoft Teams. They are of the template GROUP#0.
What I tried for troubleshooting is I went into the site settings -> search and offline availability and re-indexed the site. Did the same for a document library and list on the affected site collection.
Next, I verified that the crawl was successful with Get-PnPSearchCrawlLog.
Unfortunately, still nothing appears in the search results, no matter if I search from SharePoint Home via the Graph or the classic search through our search center.
Has anyone any idea where to look next? Site collection and web site features maybe?
Thanks for your help.
Update:
So after a lot of back and forth we narrowed it down to the following:
For users not having been assigned site collection permissions with the "Edit" permission level (either direclty to the site or via the 'Members of' group plus the Office 365 group 'Members'), Teams attached modern teamsites cannot be found through global search or have its contents (like list items and files) be retrieved through document library search.
It doesn't matter whether you're a global admin or site collection admin. If you do not have the permission level of "Edit" it won't work. "Full Access" doesn't cut it here.
Now not to confuse everyone, Microsoft tells me not all tenants are affected but some on certain servers are. The product team is now aware of it and working on a fix but no eta.
Thanks.
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Deleted Thanks for your reply. we suffered same issue but only when we provision, via flow, the Teams ( and the connected SharePoint site).
Everything is ok when we create manually the Team (anche the connected SharePoint site).
Update:
So after a lot of back and forth we narrowed it down to the following:
For users not having been assigned site collection permissions with the "Edit" permission level (either direclty to the site or via the 'Members of' group plus the Office 365 group 'Members'), Teams attached modern teamsites cannot be found through global search or have its contents (like list items and files) be retrieved through document library search.
It doesn't matter whether you're a global admin or site collection admin. If you do not have the permission level of "Edit" it won't work. "Full Access" doesn't cut it here.
Now not to confuse everyone, Microsoft tells me not all tenants are affected but some on certain servers are. The product team is now aware of it and working on a fix but no eta.
Thanks.
