Let's start by doing an introduction to
search options inside Microsoft 365.
SharePoint has always been known for its
search capabilities, as well as
extensibility, allowing organizations to
customize search to fit their requirements
and, of course, to find content across the
enterprise. SharePoint currently has two
end user experiences for search, which are
Classic SharePoint search pages and Modern
SharePoint search. They have the same
backend. However, the end user
presentation and customization options are
different. We now also have Microsoft
Search that got released in May 2019 and
is slowly being adapted by organizations
from across the globe. Microsoft Search
allows you to search across all Microsoft
365 services from Windows, Bing, or Office
365. Let's dig into details of the options
that we have. First of all, Classic
Search. Classic Search actually has
dedicated search centers with two options,
which are basic and enterprise search
centers. Classic Search is highly
customizable, allowing you to do things
such as refiners, search verticals,
display templates, and multiple backend
possibilities, like result sources and
query suggestions. However, Microsoft is
not investing much in Classic Search as
most of the new stuff is all about Modern.
Talking about Modern, let's talk about
Modern Search. Modern Search is for now
only search pages in Modern SharePoint
sites. You do not have dedicated search
centers as we did for Classic. It has
really nice features, such as
responsiveness, zero query
recommendations, and more. However, you
cannot customize any of the search
experiences at the time of this recording
in September 2019. Now Microsoft Search.
Microsoft Search got announced at Ignite
2018, which was in September 2018, and got
released in certain countries in May 2019.
The big difference with Microsoft Search
is that it's not only SharePoint. It
allows you to search across all of the
Microsoft 365 apps, and there are even
plans to add the ability to integrate
third party applications. The other
advantage is really that you're able to
search for content not only from
SharePoint, but from Office apps, Windows,
and even Bing. Bing is probably the most
surprising one, so let's see a few
examples. First, you need to log in to
Bing with your corporate Microsoft 365
username and password, and then you can
see, for example, your files. You can also
have bookmarks. So when people search for
a certain word, they get a recommended
result. This can be very useful if, for
example, people search for holiday
applications, and you want to make sure
that they always go into the official
holiday application app. You can also view
things like the people in the organization
and quickly access applications,
documents, and applications that your
Microsoft 365 search admin sets as recommended.