Hybrid Delve - Content surfacing and signals from on-premises environments

[Afsheen Sajid]

If cloud hybrid search is configured, will on-premises content surface on Delve Home, Me, Person pages or will it appear only when content is searched via Delve search box?

Also, does Office graph capture signals from on-premises environments for hybrid configurations or only from Office 365? If yes, which signals are collected from on-premises environments?   

[#2]

The following is from Configuring Microsoft SharePoint Hybrid Capabilities which you can get at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/microsoft_press/2016/07/06/free-ebook-configuring-microsoft-sharepo...

In the preview version of cloud hybrid search, Delve will make it possible for users to see search results from on-premises as well as Office 365. Gestures such as adding an item to a board will work just the same for on-premises content as for Office 365 content. On premises content from SharePoint will also show up as activity on the Me page or a person page in Delve.

[#3]

Thanks Dean, Do you know if it is still the case or if the experience has been enhanced as cloud hybrid search is GA rather than in preview now. I am not able to find latest up to date information on the hybrid delve experience and on-premises signals from internet.

[#4]

Is there any specific feature you are looking for? I have a demo environment set up with Cloud Hybrid search where I could test specific signals.

[#5]

Thanks Nico, I am looking to see if on-prem content is surfaced on the Delve Home(popular documents section based on activties performed on them) or just on Me and Person pages.

[#6]

Hi,

We have started using the cloud ssa in a SharePoint 2013 farm and can confirm that on-prem content appear in Delve even if you don't search.

We can favorite on-prem content and add to boards.

I suspect that the only signals available for the on-prem content is comming from the hybrid search itself, but it's just my theory.

I see documents from a team site in SharePoint 2013 marked as "Private document" Modified  March 10, and I see a word document marked as "Popular".

Non of these items appear with a reference to someone who has edited, emailed or shared with me.

I expect some of the documents to appear in Delve because they have been in my search results in SPO, but the popular one hasn't.

The whole experience is a bit black box magic for now.

I suspect on-prem signals are fed to Delve every time a document is re-crawled and cloud index updated, but I cannot prove that theory.

[#7]

Anyone from Microsoft who can confirm the behaviour?

[#8]

Content from outside O365 definitely appears in all the graph-driven experiences.  (We have quite a number of customers doing this with our connectors).

Right now the signals include number of modifications and when something changed (for completely external content) and I can confim Petter's observation that popularity (views) of onprem content does seem to show up too.  Sharing signals do not seem to show up.