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People search results excluding external/guest users
I would like to exclude/hide external/guest users in the people search in our SharePoint intranet site. In SharePoint admin centre created a new search "local people search2" which excludes external users using -AccountName:"#ext#" in the query text box, but it is not saved
Than in the "People-Directory.aspx" and "peopleresults.aspx" pages, I have edited the pages and webpart section and changed the query using "change query" section where I changed from the default "local people search" to "local people search2" see below. I saved and published the changes but it keeps defaulting back to "local people search" instead on "local people search2", where am I going wrong, why does it keep defaulting back? When I test the query in the edit webpart it does what I need it to do, but it does not save the change from "local people search" to "local people search2" in the select query section - I have also tried saving -AccountName:"#ext#" in the query text box which did not work either
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Hello john_west3
use the PnP Modern Search WebParts for modern Search in M365 https://microsoft-search.github.io/pnp-modern-search/scenarios/Create-a-useful-People-Search/
You don't need a specific result source, you can exclude the external users direct in your query.
Best, Dave
Thank you, do you know how to set the filtering to use the "company" field which is in Active directory? I cannot find it in the fields section, but we use it in our AD to list which division the staff are in? I have been able to use the department, keywords and job-title fields to filter but would also like to be able to filter by "company" too?
Thanks for your help
- Thank you, its a shame I could not work out how to resolve current method.. but will look into this way
