Most small and mid-sized organizations do not invest heavily in tailoring their M365 environment and often use the default settings provided by Microsoft. However, it doesn't have to require an expensive consultant to enhance the search experience in your tenant. Just follow these simple steps and the out of the box Search will by default only show current content. The approach is to segregate the content into two categories; current content and deprecated content . You will

In Modern Search we support a multi-language setup in two areas: The user interface for the configuration of the web parts, in this case in Dutch/Nederlands At the moment (late 2025) we have localization support for the following languages: Localization of managed Metadata We also support Managed Metadata localization, based on the translation values defined in the term store: If the RefinableString is mapped the the OWS_TAXID crawled property, like here: then the RefinableSt

One of the cornerstones of good information architecture is content types, and therefore we often use the content type as a criterion in our search queries. But why not use the content types as a refiner too? The default mapping provided by Microsoft is not optimal: So if we look at the value in "ContentType" for a site page it looks like this: So, I recommend updating the mapping by: creating a new Managed Property "ContentTypeName and mapping it to ows_ContentType. Mappin

Case: you have a Content Type for your Policies Pages and want to ensure that they are reviewed every 180 days. You have at least 3 options: 1) add a "Next review date" DateTime site column to the Content Type and be depended on the users remembering to update the column. You could also set up a workflow that will set the value in the "Next review date" on updates, but that is a lot of work when there are better alternatives. 2) Add a calculated site column that will set a va

In the summer of '24 Leon Armston wrote a blog post about the hoops you would have to jump through in order to deploy AutoFill columns,...

A colleague of mine asked about enhancing the display of a number, in this case the file size. The output from search looks like 34232...

One of the questions from last week in the PnP Modern Search repository was regarding showing the number of days to a review date (...

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I have been using Azure Functions to extend various Site/Group/Teams provisioning engines for years, and have picked up a few useful...

In the PnP Modern Search repository, we recently received a question about how to set up an Enterprise Keyword column as a refiner. I...

We recently received a question about how an Enterprise Keyword column could become a refiner in PnP Modern Search For a guide for how...

Once in a while you might have to create a Support Ticket with Microsoft Support, and if the issue is related to: Content not showing up...

Just a quick tip: Yes, you can set a default value on a Person Column, (both List Columns and Site Columns), but it will require...

If you are familiar with SharePoint and Microsoft Search you might have notified the Managed Property "UIVersionStringOWSTEXT" However,...

How do you ensure that expired content is hidden from Search and Copilots? Here are a few design patterns that works

On a few occasions I have seen people asking how to use the PnP Modern Search web parts to display external users, i.e. users who are not...

Once the setting "Use Microsoft Graph Toolkit" has been switch to "On" in the Results Web Part, we are able to use the many out of the...

I have just been invited to speak about Search from an Intranet point of view at a IntraTeam event 21 May. So, the topics will be...

While working on a PnP Modern Search based overview of HR Policies, I realized how tricky it can be to compare a date with "Today" in a...

Some times customers prefer that links to documents opens in the application and in sites we can ensure this by activating this Site...