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One Place to Search All, Can that happen?
My Office365 Home Page has a Search Bar through which I can search a) SharePoint b) OneDrive for Business and c) Outlook Attachments (Exchange), will there be an addition to find people from the same place?
In the nutshell, I'm looking for People Search Scope to be added along with the Content Search, so the users have one place to go, just trying to find out if that is going to be possible in the future or anybody already working on it
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I'm having the same question Ronnie_Saini. I've started a similar discussion a couple of days ago, using SharePoint Search Center as the starting point to search all, take a look https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/SharePoint/Is-a-Modern-SharePoint-Search-Center-also-on-the-Modern/m-p/37443.
One location with a simple search box to search all and when needed allows you to refine your search, that's what alot of our customers still are looking for.
There are some changes currently being rolled out to the Office 365 home page however there is no mention of a people search being included in the blog post. https://blogs.office.com/2016/12/28/the-new-office-com-gets-first-major-update/
There are a number of ways that users can search for people within O365 at the moment e.g. People app, Delve, SharePoint search (modern & classic) so this can be a little confusing for end users. It will be interesting to see how this develops, the People app has seen alot of enhancemnts over recent months.
- Yes, I'm seeing the new Office 365 home page update but still the people search is absent. It would be ideal if that scope is also added, currently there are several places like you mentioned to find people. The challenge id Delve People Search is that i can't users by their skills for example, for that I have to go to SharePoint Search, at the end, all confusing for the end users.
Hope Microsoft is listening and doing something about this. Thanks again!
