Topic: Unable to Edit or Delete Promoted Results - Pros/Cons of Organization Search
We've run into an ongoing issue in utilizing Promoted Results in our SharePoint environment (specific questions below). We utilize a scoped search to just search a single site collection and have historically used Promoted Results frequently to ensure our most commonly used resources fire at the top of our search results for users. Earlier this year, we suddenly were no longer able to edit our Promoted Results. Every attempt at saving any changes or even deleting the entire query rule resulted in an error message and no change to the rule. As a result we now have Promoted Results firing that feature broken URLs. We cannot change them or delete them. A developer we work with attempted to override and make changes via a PowerShell script, but he was unsuccessful. We are aware of the deprecation of Promoted Results in favor of Bookmarks. However, this should not impact our ability to simply delete existing Promoted Results. We escalated the issue to Microsoft and were told there is a "corruption" in our site that is not fixable. The proposed solution provided by Microsoft was to rebuild our entire site and migrate our entire site collection to the new environment. We have a lot of customization in our existing site, and we don't feel the workload of this rebuild is the right approach at this time, and we are covering all our bases. We recognize that moving forward to utilizing Bookmarks may be our only option, and we have tested Bookmarks in our environment. Bookmarks however only fire on Organization search (i.e., not in our scoped search environment). Organization search currently pulls in too many non-relevant search results that we don't want our users to see, but it may be the only environment where we can ensure our broken Promoted Results aren't appearing. My questions for the community based on this are: Has anyone encountered a similar error with Promoted Results - as in, the results are firing, but you are unable to edit or delete them on the back-end? Has anyone found a solution to this issue? At this point, we would settle for just being able to delete the corrupted query rules. If we have to switch to Organization Search, is anyone aware of any customization available within Organization Search? We've historically used query rules (not just promoted results) to ensure certain results are elevated, and we don't want to lost that customization. What are the pros and cons of utilizing Organization search as our main search feature? Is there any other solution here that we are missing? My apologies if any of my terminology or explanation is lacking. I do appreciate any feedback as we are still struggling to find the best solution.
File protocol for locally crawled content -- SharePoint 2019 (onwards)
We utilise SharePoint 2019 to crawl local content on our file shares. I'm noticing that since deploying Chrome/Microsoft Edge, links starting with the "file://" no longer open files in the SharePoint Search results, where the crawled files exist on a file share. (e.g. file://file-server/file-share/filename.pdf). I appreciate that opening files using the "file://" protocol has been disabled/deprecated in Edge Chromium. I was wondering, however, if there were any workarounds discovered by anyone that you could share. The closest fix I have been able to find is the IntranetFileLinksEnabled Edge GPO setting (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-policies#intranetfilelinksenabled). The problem with this workaround is that it only opens the Windows Explorer directory containing the file, and not the file itself. I'm looking for something that would allow us to open the file.
Items not searchable by guest accounts after applying a sensitiviy label
We have enabled the integration of sensitivity labels for SharePoint Online and OneDrive in our tenant. We now noticed that items that get assigned to a sensitivity label that uses encryption are not searchable anymore by guest users. The guest accounts have access to the item and also have access to open the encrypted item. As soon as such a label is set, the items disappear from SharePoint search for any of our guest user accounts.how to remove deleted link Search result
Hi Guys We are having strange link appearing when search "concur" in SharePoint online search results page. this link seems already deleted from the source we search both the recycle bins also cant find this but it listed in search It has small correct (icon) as well Please we need to remove this any help greatly appreciate !! Regards RadikaSharePoint 2019 Search weird issue
Hi all, I have a SharePoint 2019 farm wich shows some sort of search issues I don't get to pinpoint. Everything seem to work but if you start to search for certain documents they don't show up as results. The weird stuff is when looking for a document with a given data. Let's see the information: Files are structured in site collections and libraries. Each library has a folder to store "original" documents (admin eyes only) For each original document there is one o more pdf documents in the root of the library Each document is named after an identification ID (eg 2005-0000003943) If you search for this ID most of the times the results just show the pdf file (although it sometimes shows both original and pdf file) The thing is the refinement panel shows both PDF and Original format (zip, xls, etc.) and if I select the original extension the it shows the original file. Things I have already checked, tryed: Permissions, everything ok, I'm using an administrator account and permissions checks are fine. Compared both files to see if any metadata is different Exported list to check internal and native metadata Redone the index, full crawl included I cannot understand why it hides the original file by default but I'm able to see it if I use the refinement panel or why it sometimes shows both documents (the expected behaviour)
How do I remove blocked O365 users from being displayed in SharePoint Online' search
When people leave our company we block them in our O365 admin center. The issue that we're having is that when we use sharepoint search' to look for people, the blocked users are still displayed. We want to prohibit the blocked users from being displayed in the search results. We don't want to remove the blocked users. We're using an modern SharePoint experience and we're not having an on-prem AD only an Azure AD. I've found a couple of possible solutions but it seems they only are suitable to companies with a synced on-prem AD. Kind regards
What determines "Hide physical URLs from search" and why does Search have a problem with it?
Publishing Pages have a property called Hide physical URLs from search. In the many different SharePoint Online environments I help manage can see that some pages have this set to true, some false. I don't know why this is, but I'm pretty sure no one has been changing these manually. This property is also a problem, since SP Search often does not pick up pages if this is set to true. Questions: What determines "Hide physical URLs from search"? Why is it seemingly random or changing? Why does SP Search sometimes not pick up some pages where this is true?
