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A specific function of Search Services that returns only user account information as results.

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HitHighlightedSummary HitHighlightedProperties is empty in people search using REST

Is there a way to get search hits in HitHighlightedSummary HitHighlightedProperties on people search using REST? /_api/search/query?querytext=%27ers%27&sourceid=%27b09a7990-05ea-4af9-81ef-...
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Configure Search Results Query to Exclude generic accounts

Working in SharePoint 2013, I am trying to configure the Search Results query, to exclude all generic accounts (i.e. System accounts, test users, etc.). Our AD has these users segregated into a ...
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SharePoint 2013 (Welcome Page) Search People missing from Page Layout

I want to create a Employee Directory then i followed some link to do it. I am trying to add the (Welcome Page) Search People from Page layout but i can't find it. All required features were already ...
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Check a property is not null in search rest api

I write this query for search user in a site. /_api/search/query?querytext='*'&sourceid='b09a7990-05ea-4af9-81ef-edfab16c4e31' I want to add a filter that the result must contains WorkEmail. I ...
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Sharepoint Search REST API people SourceID gives 0 results

I implemented on my Sharepoint Online tenant Custom People Search Webpart using Sharepoint Search REST API (here to be precise pnp/js library). To find only people related hits, I used SourceId: ...
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Add display field to people search results

I can't find a clear answer on how to add fields to a people search result. Currently it displays position and department. How do I add additional fields to appear under the person searched?
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Error on hover panel of people search result "We weren't able to find additional information"

In people search result while hovering over all result item, in the hover panel in the middle I can see a message "We weren't able to find additional information". I saw a msdn post for the same ...
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hover panel not shown on first result item in people search result

When i key in a search keyword and give a people search. I am seeing a couple of people results. But on the first result item i am not able to see the hover panel when i hover over that item. same ...
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PnP-Search Result webpart doesn't show profile picture in the cards

I use SharePoint online and I have a Communication site with the PnP-SearchResults on it. In my PnP-SearchResult web-part, it doesn't display the profile pictures. When I open a page, my picture is ...
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People Search results can only be seen by admins

We're seeing an odd issue on our farm after migrating/upgrading to SP2019. Normal search results (list items, documents, sites, etc.) are showing up properly for all users. People search results, ...
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Remove System Account and User Groups from people search results in O365

I am working on O365 and have a requirement where I only need to display Users in my people search results. Currently the result also displays few service accounts which I do not want. Is there a way ...
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Refiners not working for custom search results web part in SharePoint Online Multi-Geo tenant

We have a SharePoint Online tenant with 5 Geo tenants. Users have their profiles in different Geo tenants. We also have 2 custom properties set in each user profile. We mapped crawl properties for ...
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Can I insert multiple People Search Core Result Web Parts on the same page?

I have created a department page displaying a gallery of staff along with a few select fields from their user profile. I successfully used a People Search Core Results web part with a Fixed Keyword ...
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How do we add Sort By Last Name on People Search?

This may be a simple question but I am having a hard time figure out how to add Last Name on Sort by in People search. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading. //Update - tried to ...
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Is there way to customize PnP modern people search so it displays more than 1 column of people

I am using PnP modern search v4.4.1 and was wondering if there was a way I can make 2 column or result appear instead of 1 column as following:
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SharePoint Search - Result Source to retrieve only 5 People along with rest of the results

Can you please help me in formulating a KQL or FQL query? Is it possible to retrieve only 5 people results from the below query. Rest 15 can be anything from the index of the SharePoint Search Service....
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Peoplepicker returning with "No exact match was found" for a 1-way trust

Problem: When selecting an user in the peoplepicker, and posting the page to the server, an error is returned that the user cannot be found (No exact match was found). This happens when a task is to ...
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how to deactivate the user in office 365 and set sps-hidefromaddresslists value in sharpeoint online

I want to deactivate some of my company users and also I want to exclude deactivate users from SharePoint's online search.
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SharePoint 2016 : Exclude people in search result

We have a requirement wherein on the search result page people (users) should not be shown. Kindly let know how this can be achieved. Googled for it however finding posts to exclude inactive users ...
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How to enable phonetic results when using KeywordQuery?

I cannot seem to get a custom keyword query to return phonetic results when searching for people. I have FAST search installed, and if I do a people search (in the FAST search center) for "Jon", I ...
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Search has encountered a problem that prevents results from being returned after Microsoft Windows (KB5001078) update

This Tuesday (30.03.2021) we have installed the Security Update for Microsoft Windows (KB5001078) on the SharePoint 2016 server, after that the SharePoint search has stopped working, getting this ...
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Sort Search results alphabetically for People Search

After trying and failing to find some way to make a semi decent looking company directory with ootb parts, we've decided to just redirect people to _layouts/15/search.aspx/people, which works fine, ...
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Get Property value and display to people search result

This is for SharePoint 2013. I'm new in this domain. I have to realise an intranet with SharePoint 2013. I want to display a property in people search results. I followed this post, it works well, ...
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SharePoint search query: display people from a specific AD group

I want to display all members / users who are in the Active Directory group "Marketing". What do I have to add / change to the following query so that I don't see all users, but only those ...
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Customizing the PnP people search handlebar template in SharePoint online

I am using the modern PnP SPFx people search web part - and for the people search below is the out of the box template is generated by the web part: <content id="template"> <style> ...
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How to add more than one refinementFilters in a search query

My search query is /_api/search/query?querytext='*'&selectproperties='PreferredName,OriginalPath,WorkEmail,SipAddress,Department,Path,PictureURL,JobTitle,AccountName,BaseOfficeLocation,'&...
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Refiners missing in Sharepoint

Last year I asked a question about Search Results Web part refiners here : - Search Results Web Part Refiner issue I was offered a Solution and it worked. Thanks. However, now the Client is reporting ...
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SharePoint 2019 on premise - show profile image in people webpart

We have recently moved to SP2019 on premise. We have our user profiles syncing from AD and have just imported the associated staff images as well. What is now a problem is getting the profile images ...
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Is it possible sorting the results in this page [link to the site]/_layouts/15/search.aspx/people?

In SharePoint online modern site I created the link in the Quick links web-part with [link to the site]/_layouts/15/search.aspx/people which is taking to the People search directly. Is it possible to ...
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SharePoint 2010 Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 - People Search Results are Wrong

I upgraded the Search Application from SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, implemented People Search Core Results webpart, clicked on a person returned in People Search Core Results and get forwarded ...
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Removing a List from a Search

I have a list where new users are added as they input there information. The problem is that if a user do a search they can pull up other users ss. How can I prevent other users from searching in the ...
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SharePoint 2013 User profile service doesn't return data for few users from asp.net code

I have a SharePoint 2013 deployed in one of the server. AD user can log in to it and view the data. I have created profile service in SharePoint to sync Active directory users in SharePoint and it ...
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Remove groups from People Search

How can I configure my query to only return people and exclude the groups that came from the AD? My query now looks like this: ContentClass=urn:content-class:SPSPeople
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Set permissions to view but not edit on search

I've built a an Employee Directory following this guide but the permissions are giving me grief. If I add a user to the "Vistors" group, they can see the search box and the refiners but the People ...
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Custom List Result with Content Type=SPSPeople in SharePoint Online

Is it possible to get Custom List Result with Content Type=SPSPeople and display: Only the Custom List Result Merge Custom List Result and People Search result Using SharePoint Online I tried the ...
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Search query api to get birthday date

I am trying to use the sharepoint REST api to get all users birthdays. So I am using a crawled property People:SPS-Birthday with the managed property RefinableDate00. Yesterday 15/08/2019 (Thursday)...
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Search Refinement Panel

How can I get the preferred name of the "People:Manager"-crawled property in the search refinement panel instead of domain\Accountname? I mapped a mananaged property to this crawled property but only ...
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Multi Domain Sharepoint user profiles

We have a sharepoint where we have to use 3 AD domains (eg: domA, domB, domC) to pull users from. Sometimes there are users who would appear in all these domains(domA\User1, domB\User1, domC\User1). ...
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People Search Property not showing up

So this concerns SharePoint 2016 on Premise. I have MySite and searching from MySite triggers a people search. I want to search a department number. Example, in the people search, I enter... 1347 ...
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new refiner in peopleresults.aspx

I followed this guide to add a refiner for peopleresults.aspx http://nikcharlebois.com/creating-custom-search-refiners-in-office-365-using-term-sets/ The idea is that there is a list where a taxonomy/...
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Unable to create result source showing only users where AD property is not empty

SharePoint Online here. I'm trying to create a result source that only contains external users. In local AD we distinguish external users from internal ones with the LDAP property 'company'. This ...
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Search Results: People by Department AND Sub-Department

Can SharePoint Search People by Department and include Sub-Departments? My organization has Departments with Sub-Departments. I have created terms in the term store: For example: Training ...
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People search query shows invalid refinementfilters

I want to get all the peoples whose PreferredName contains "Tar". I have written a search query for this search /_api/search/query?querytext='*'&selectproperties='PreferredName,OriginalPath,...
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People Picker Resolves empty single space for "AllUsers(Windows)" or "NTAUTHORITY\AllUsers"

When leaving the PeoplePicker after entering single space, it automatically resolves to "AllUsers(Windows)" or "NTAUTHORITY\AllUsers". Why this issue happening? Please give your solutions/...
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people search show no up to date information

When i search for someone on the search page of sharepoint i find the user but his informations are not up to date. i check the profile on the sharepoint command center and exchange and everything is ...
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SharePoint 2010 - Search WebPart - Unable to display this webpart

Search by People in SharePoint 2010 generates: Unable to display this Web Part. To troubleshoot the problem, open this Web page in a Microsoft SharePoint Foundation-compatible HTML editor such as ...
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SharePoint people search showing unpredictable results

I've a People search page on SharePoint root site, that has search box and search results web part which is pretty straight forward and mostly being used to search people by name. Recently, I came ...
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SPO: User with hyphen in name not showing up in People Search

I'm in SharePoint Online. If I search for a user under Everything, then she shows up at the top under "People named .." and clicking the link takes me to her profile. If I go to the People tab and ...
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Showing the employees who are out of office on modern site page

I am working on a new SharePoint online classic team site, and I have added a new modern page where I set it as the home page for the team site. Now, we got the following requirement from our customer:...
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Sharepoint 2013 - people search configuration

I have not configured the search but I need to change it (perhaps understand more about it). The users are imported from AD in User Profile Service Application. We use the people search as a ...

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