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Users can disable search
Hi Jaroslav Karlik TonyRedmond et al,
We've reviewed further with those on our end already engaged on the issue - a continuing effort to adjust legacy settings to the cloud-first approach, evolving from on-premises roots. We've a planned fix soon to roll out that makes moot what you're discovering. Once fully in place, people will not be able to disable eDiscovery for their own OneDrive - even if they had disabled Search. It will be a sole action for admins. Appreciate the eyeballs and call to attention.
Thanks, Mark, on behalf of the OneDrive teamCc StephenRice
What about DLP ..which definitely rellies on content search??
We did have problems with some litigation cases and even MS support pointed us to fact user had disabled search. We requested a DCR from MS so maybe they already fixed it for eDiscovery ....
I'm not saying I don't trust you, it actually sounds logical to me. Just want to verify it before I start pinging folks at Microsoft about it. So far I don't have any issues running eDiscovery searches against a user with search disabled, but I might simply be seeing results from the old index.
So, after manually rebuilding the index for that user yesterday, I no longer get any results in eDiscovery. In other words, I can confirm the behavior.
Now, did you say that you have already filed a DCR with Microsoft about it and they have accepted it? Just so we know whether to harass some folks at Microsoft, or wait.
TonyRedmond FYI, as you don't seem to be getting my Teams messages 🙂
VasilMichev I'm not ignoring you, I am ignoring the news. This is old information because users have always been able to disable search for their personal OneDrive for Business site. As I recall, there was a bit of a ho-hah about this topic when Delve first appeared that subsequently died down.
Users have always had the ability to protect their information against search. For instance, they can simply ignore OneDrive for Business (the equivalent of keeping email in a PST). We might not like this, but they can. Another way is to protect the information with rights management, in which case search can only index the metadata and not the content of protected documents.
If someone has a real problem with this, they should file a User Voice and ask Microsoft for a tenant-wide control to stop users having the ability to access the Search and Offline capability of Site settings.
FWIW. I have let Microsoft know about the issue and we'll see what they say.
