Did Microsoft silently implement nickname search? E.g. I have created a user “Robert Dylan” and never used name “Bob”, but search understands that I’m looking for Robert Dylan when I’m searching for Bob or Bob Dylan or Bobby. Important thing – result is shown under “All” and “People” verticals. I know Microsoft claimed m365 search […]
Scenario Nickname (or alias or moniker or hypocorism etc.) is some another name – usually shorter than original name and widely used in maybe all countries in the world. E.g. Bob is a nickname for Robert in the US and GB, Checo is the other name for Sergio in Mexico. There might be personal names […]
Published: May 1, 2022Update from Mar 5, 2023: Microsoft confirmed this as valid solution.Update from May 20, 2024: still trueUpdate from June 12, 2024: I have just found “ABP in Exchange Online“… Looking into it… Scenario You want specific users do not appear in Microsoft 365 SharePoint, Teams or Outlook search results. For instance, when […]
updated: Feb 13, 2022 (Old/Classic) SharePoint Search: content-centric (SharePoint Search Center)(New/Modern) Microsoft Search: people-centric (Teams, Office, OneDrive, Delve etc.) Office graph = codename for collective set of services and insights we generate on top of the infrastructure that fast office graph group developed = social Intel concepts (SharePoint home, Delve, OneDrive Discoverview) are derivatives of Office […]
Scenario Consider the following: What is Microsoft saying “The following Azure AD user attributes are synced to the UPA.” :(Azure AD attributes) – UserPrincipalName, DisplayName, GivenName, sn, telephoneNumber, proxyAddresses, PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName, Title, Department, WWWHomePage, PreferredLanguage, msExchHideFromAddressList, ManagerRespective User profile property display names: Account Name, User Name, User Principal Name, Name, FirstName, LastName, Work phone, Work Email, […]
Update: for the same solution in modern search – please refer to “Hide non-personal accounts from modern Microsoft 365 search” The following solution is for Classic Search only. What I did is: User profile services -> Manage User properties: create custom property like “HideFromPeopleSearch”, boolean, do not allow users to edit value, Indexed Client-side PowerShell […]