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Microsoft Search, Ask Us Anything
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Microsoft Search is a leading intelligent search solution available with Microsoft 365 that consolidates islands of information transforming information into knowledge and answers. Through innovative deep learning at scale, Microsoft Search harnesses the collective knowledge of your organization, extracting insights from structured and unstructured data, saving you time and money.
An AMA is a live text-based online event similar to a “YamJam” on Yammer or an “Ask Me Anything” on Reddit. This AMA gives you the opportunity to connect with Microsoft product experts who will be on hand to answer your questions and listen to feedback.
Feel free to post your questions about Microsoft Search anytime in the comments below beforehand, if it fits your schedule or time zone better, though questions will not be answered until the live hour.
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- Erwin VerlindenBrass Contributor
Where did this feature go, it appeared and disappeared in our production environment.
The searchbox feature where you get the dropdown to choose between Hub, Site of Organization wide.- Erwin VerlindenBrass Contributor
added screenshot
- Ajla_Badza
Microsoft
Hi Erwin, this feature had some issues during the rollout process, so it got pulled back for some time. These issues are now fixed, and it will be available 100% in targeted release, and depending on the results from TR, will soon be available in WW.
- wbaer
Microsoft
Thank you to everyone who was able to join us today and share your questions and comments with our teams from across Microsoft Search. Your feedback and suggestions are extremely valuable as we think about our vision and strategy for digital workplace search. We'll continue to answer any open questions on this AMA we were unable to resolve during this time. To submit additional comments, questions, or share product feedback, please visit https://aka.ms/searchfeedback and for more information on Microsoft Search visit our adoption resources on https://adoption.microsoft.com.
Thanks again!
Bill
- KasperLarsenIron ContributorI get a "not found" for the aka link ?
- Erwin VerlindenBrass ContributorI guess they did not open the Search feedback yet, since it is also not visible in the forum overview on https://feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/
- EmilyPerina
Community Manager
That’s a wrap! Thank you for joining our Microsoft Search AMA today! We appreciate all the great questions and hope you learned something new! I'll be locking this event to new questions, but our experts will still be able to respond to any unanswered questions. Stay tuned for more Microsoft Search news!
- BhargavReddyBurramukkuCopper ContributorIs there any plan to show bookmarks in every vertical (like files, messages , graph connector based) apart from "ALL"
- Ajla_Badza
Microsoft
For the moment, unfortunately not.- Erwin VerlindenBrass ContributorIs No really the answer or will it be added to the search backlog, what will happen to these customer requests? Would be nice if there would be more clarification on the answer 🙂
- dobrien17Copper ContributorHello, Question about Bookmarks. We have several Bookmarks that have more than 4 results associated to 1 keyword (ex: enrollment). Currently only 1 main Bookmark and 3 related Bookmarks appear. The rest do not show at all. Is there any plans to expand the number (and ordering) of Bookmarks shown in the future? Thanks, Dan
- Ajla_Badza
Microsoft
We are currently working on implementing a Multiple Bookmarks answer that would show top 2 or 3 Bookmarks and give the ability to users to expand and see more than that.- dobrien17Copper ContributorThank you - looking forward to that.
- Scott497Copper ContributorCurious for your situation ... if the "Q&A" answer type would not provide a better result, where you could order the bookmarks in the markdown?
- dobrien17Copper ContributorI believe the experience is similar. I tested this with 2 Q&A's with the same keyword and only 1 of them shows.
- sgatkalCopper ContributorWhen you see the results, do you mean results in search results page or in the search box suggestions?
- dobrien17Copper ContributorI am referring to the block atop the All vertical in the search results.
- The management page for the SharePoint search schema, which I use relatively often, is still in the classic UI as before, but it is slow to respond and difficult to use. It would be great to see it modernized. Are there any plans to do so?
- Scott497Copper ContributorI would add ... when (if ever) we might see SharePoint move to the modern .NET Core platform, as a host of other Microsoft services have done already ... which should definitely improve performance. ... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/category/developer-stories/
- KasperLarsenIron ContributorThe query builder dialog box is VERY slow on a lot of tenants
- Margaret NunezBrass ContributorI would like a report of the click through rate for results supplied by connectors. Now I have no way to know if these are helpful to users and it would also help to justify the cost of extra index space to my leaders.
- BrianTJackett
Microsoft
This work is on our internal backlog and will begin soon but we do not have an ETA to share at this time.
- When I do some keyword searches in the search window of a SharePoint site, the search result suggestions appear in a drop-down in the window, but they are different from the results I get when I press the Enter key. I am using Japanese, but it seems to be more accurate to show the results as search result suggestions. I would like to know what the difference is, and if there are plans to unify the two types of search results.
- sgatkalCopper ContributorIf I understand correctly, the answers you see in search results page are more accurate than the ones you see in the search box drop down. Is that right? Does it happen often while using Japanese? and does it happen when you use English?
- No, the ones in the search box drop down is more accurate. I always use Japanese.
- Erwin VerlindenBrass ContributorWe have a custom Graph API connector in PowerApps for the Search Configuration, but I can't get all the properties that are shown in for example Bookmarks. Is there anything on the roadmap to enhance the Graph API for Search?
- BrianTJackett
Microsoft
Can you share which search configuration entities you are searching for and which properties you are unable to return?- Erwin VerlindenBrass Contributor
If I use the 'Import by sample' in the response, then I only get the following properties:
So important properties like 'keywords' 'lastModifiedBy' etc are not retrieved using the the connector.
- Margaret NunezBrass ContributorFeedback could be useful if there was more information included, such as searches the user performed that day (or even last 5). If I have no idea what they were looking for and they leave a comment like "I can't find what I want" I have zero information to act on.
- Ajla_Badza
Microsoft
Due to data privacy protection, we do not associate search queries to specific users. We have started improving the Feedback function and giving an option for end users to send more data to the admins along with the feedback. We do not have the ability or a plan to associate search terms to specific users.- Margaret NunezBrass ContributorThank you for that information. Please do give users an option to add more information - and perhaps some instruction that the more information they provide the more helpful it is.