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SharePoint search results showing for those without permission to the documents
I have the same problem. As a user without access to the HR Sharepoint site, I can see documents from that site in my search results, complete with a random sentence from inside each document. I definitely don't have access as the user, and clicking on the file brings up the page to request access. But I shouldn't be able to see a sentence from the file, or even the file name.
Nobody has customised the search or done anything fancy - we are a small charity without those kind of resources.
I'm having a very similar issue with a client. They reported users performing a search in Outlook (thick client) are seeing items they shouldn't. I was able to replicate this with a test account. Items showing up, but when clicked on would bring us to the standard "request access" page.
Maybe Microsoft is doing something on the backend and broke permission trimming on search results?
I'm having similar but opposite issue. Users cannot get search results on some documents they have been granted access to.
kerrluWe actually ended up having the same issue as well. It seems that when you remove the "Members" group from either a folder or document library, even if the "Owners" still have access to the content, it will not appear in the search results.
The Microsoft technician we were working with to resolve both of these issues indicated that this was a "design limitation". We have created a Feedback for this issue: https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/idea/94c6e813-6ae9-ef11-b542-7c1e528c511c
