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- We see features in Bing Search and in the search at portal.office.com that would also improve our search experience on our SharePoint Home Site. For instance, Bing Search shows bookmarks already in the search dropdown, but on the SharePoint Home Site, you need to go to the search result page to see bookmarks. On portal.office.com you can already find applications in the drop down search box, but applications cannot be found in the search on the SharePoint Home Site. It would help us if the search experience is more unified in the different areas where applicable.
- We aim to keep coherence amongst our search endpoints in the search results as well as in suggestions. We have already begun the process to add bookmarks to Sharepoint suggestions and we might plan the other features as well. To understand better, do you expect exact same experience across Bing, Office and Sharepoint?
- I do not expect the exact same results as I think they all have different use cases but I do see useful features in portal.office.com and in Bing that we would like to have on our Intranet search as well.
- We are working on a new Intranet leveraging all the latest developments from Microsoft. We will have different sites for business units all attached to our home site. We also have different sites describing our locations around the world and we would really like to start using Locations in Microsoft Search. However we are now forced to create bookmarks for these location pages as that is the only way to register a link to a location page. It would be very helpful if Locations also are able to store a link to a page that explains more about the location.
- I have a question about Microsoft Search analytics/insights I'd be interested in hearing an answer for. We have 80,000+ users, have promoted a Home site as our Enterprise search portal and set it in Viva Connections for Teams. We have incorporated external data sources, migrated our SharePoint promoted results to bookmarks and even set the Home site results page to use the SharePoint start page search results page. Our users are very active in individual SharePoint sites, OneDrive and MS Teams searching from wherever they happen to work the most. Bing search is not enabled for our organization, users don't utilize the office.com or SharePoint start for searching however those are the only locations included in the new Microsoft Search Insights. So pun intended, we have little insight into what users are really searching for or how we can best improve their experience. The old SharePoint admin level search usage reports no longer work and it's inconceivable to check 60,000 + individual modern site usage reports. Will feedback and search usage initiated from other areas of the tenant be included in MS Search insights anytime soon?
- Short answer is "yes". We are actively expanding analytics and insight support and have many long-term and short-term goals. We expect to release feature updates by the end of the year. Customers involved with Microsoft's Lighthouse Program for Microsoft Search will get early access to analytics and insight features.
- I have the same question. The Search usage analytics in the MS Admin center is only marginally useful. I would have expected it to roll up all usage from across the tenant. I'd also love to see hub sites have their own rollup reporting.
- Perhaps using Graph for custom exports to Power Bi or similar could be an option? , just my 5 € cents
We have global intranet - over 90K users, we have business units that also have their own hubs within the larger intranet-and one business unit that is using translations for some of their content as well - how do you handle search for content in other languages Another question, our homesite is a hubsite- since it is landing site for our global intranet- we have noticed that it does not act as a hubsite - in the sense that it is not limiting search to search across other hubsites that are associated to it but it is searching across all of 0365 (onedrive, teams, other sharepoint sites etc.)-this is causing user confusion so we were looking to use bookmarks to bubble up content from global intranet not sure if any advice?
- Kathrine Hammervold
Microsoft
It is correct that today we do not show answers such as Bookmarks at the site or hub site level. We are currently discussing when we can make this available at the site/hub site level, but I can not give a timeline yet - You can also change the default scope to "Hub" https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftsearch/manage-spo-search-box
- When you set a site as a home site, you are automatically scoping search to be the entire tenant. You really want search to be at the org-wide level because that is currently the only place that features like Bookmarks, Acronyms, etc. are surfaced. You may want to add a search vertical at the org level so you can limit the scope of search to just that hub that represents your official intranet.
- Kathrine HammervoldIt is possible to configure the search scope for a site to either search globally, the content in the hub site and associated sites, or just the site itself. This is a post that gives some information on how to achieve this Configure modern search results to search all of your organization (rather than the current site). This is a post that explains how https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/configure-modern-search-results-to-search-all-of-your/m-p/447334
- Our organization just launch a global intranet with multilanguage capability. How can search provide articles that are being searched based on the language preference for each user? With various regions creating content, we see bookmarks as the only option to push the proper content but the results only display at the organization level and not at the hub levels.
- Kathrine HammervoldIt is correct that today we do not show answers such as Bookmarks at the site or hub site level. We are currently discussing when we can make this available at the site/hub site level, but I can not give a timeline yet You may also consider using Query Variables in the the search vertical filter KQL to match a preferred language setting from the user profile
I manage to configure a lot of search result in microsoft search (dynamics, Atlassian...). A thing that I didn't manage to configure is the search result language in windows.
I'm in Belgium, we have French and Dutch as official language but all our tenant is configured in English.
all results in windows 10 are displayed in Dutch will my computer and profile are setup in English (uk).
Is there settings to modify to have the result always displayed in windows in a specific language?
Search is mission critical for me. I have 332k files indexed – shown below in windows 11 index status.
Couple of point of feedback: In the Search permissions
This clearly states my search results should include my content from
- OneDrive, SharePoint etc.
- BUT alas that is not true
- It only indexes the local content that has been downloaded – not cloud only content.
- I need to be able to search content locally, OneDrive online only and all of SharePoint (not locally downloaded)
Question: Why not allow Windows11 search access to the indexes Microsoft has already generated on SharePoint and OneDrive in the cloud ? – ie add them here…
Then I would be able to search all my data with for ”text strings" / content with confidence?
Many thanks for your kind consideration to this request.
Cheers
Ian
Windows 11 is now including SharePoint and OneDrive in my search results. Check out https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6959742354572414976 for details.
Also, make sure the Windows indexing service is working. I had problems with the local indexing, which prevented any results showing up in Windows. I know it shouldn't matter for content indexed by Microsoft Search, but it did for me.
