Windows 10: #MSIgnite 2020: What is new for Microsoft Search

Brink · Sep 22, 2020

Haven't had a chance to catch up or missed our sessions? Donât worry, weâll precap and recap all of the latest news and announcements for Microsoft Search here. Looking for our sessions? Visit https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSearch/Ignite2020/LearnMore.

Click here to jump ahead. On the go? You can download this post as a .pdf at https://aka.ms/MicrosoftSearch/Ignite2020/DownloadBlog.

NOTE Unless otherwise noted, features and capabilities will be available in H2 CY20.

Have you ever misplaced something? Maybe it was your car keys, your favorite jewelry, or something elseâ¦ The typical process you go through is probably something like this â you ask yourself the question, âwhere did I put my keysâ and then walk backward from where you last went, which rooms you were last in, the last you did perhaps..

That process is synonymous with a traditional search experience, a query and continuous refining of the query until you find what you were looking for â while this process may work for you on one occasion, itâs not consistent enough to be valuable in the future, and what if the keys youâre looking for, arenât the ones you misplaced, but those of a roommate, partner, or someone else?

This is why search needs to evolve, to become more personal, more context aware, more precise, and more available, so wherever you are, whatever it is, you can find it the first time, with minimal effort, and precision.

Microsoft Search is the evolution of search, smarter search to help you stay in touch with whatâs important and trending around you in Microsoft 365 and your connected systems.

Today we announced several new capabilities coming to Microsoft Search in the next few months to make search more intelligent, more productive, and more precise.

New Search Features

People-centric search

Microsoft Search has always put people first and at the center of searchâ¦ usually when youâre searching for information, you work from its edges to its center, in the same way we may build a puzzle. The strength of Microsoft Search is that it allows you to find that information from the center, the person, outward.

Itâs people who create and curate knowledge, and we believe that allowing you to anchor on that person, their knowledge, and solve the information puzzle working outward, delivers greater precision, and a more delightful experience â because sometimes the answer youâre looking for isnât found through a document, itâs found through a person. People centric search allows you to scope and refine your searches, precisely, to an individual to allow you to harness your organizations collective knowledge.

People-centric search in Outlook mobile and SharePoint

Find skills and expertise

In the same way we allow you to find what you need through individual knowledge, we are expanding that experience to allow you to not only find information, but also insights and expertise. The ability to find skills and expertise lets you home in on the individual talent in your organization to find the experts that can best help you solve a problem or complete a task.

For example, for a marketing campaign, you may want to know who in your company has expertise in social media or perhaps event production. With Microsoft Search, youâll simply be able to ask, âwho knows about social mediaâ or âexperts in event productionâ. Using our machine learning algorithms, Microsoft Search can identify expertise, not only based on self-attestation â or adding skills to your own profile, but also through content understanding, through reasoning over email and documents to identify areas of expertise a person may possess based on collaborative patterns and then suggest to that person to add those discoveries to their profile. This helps keep up to date the evolving nature of knowledge of the individuals in your organization.

Who Knows What in SharePoint

Power BI search

Power BI is the Magic Quadrant Leader among analytics and business intelligence platforms and over 200,000 customers around the world use Power BI and bring 40 petabytes of data into Power BI every month and now weâre making it easier to find Power BI artifacts such as reports and dashboards, by expanding the ability to search across these artifacts in SharePoint and Office.com in addition to Bing.

-Source https://powerbi.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-named-a-leader-in-gartners-2020-magic-quadrant-fo...

Power BI search in SharePoint and Office.com

Conversation search

Everywhere we look and everywhere we work, weâll find information â and sometimes this can be overwhelming when weâre trying to put it all into context. Now weâre making it easier to find what you need, across the apps and services youâre using, where youâre working by surfacing Teams, Yammer, and Outlook conversation results in SharePoint and Office.com through a new Conversations vertical to make it easier for you to search once, across all of your organizations information.

Conversation search in SharePoint

Image search

Leonardo da Vinci wrote that a poet would be "overcome by sleep and hunger before [being able to] describe with words what a painter is able to [depict] in an instant." Now in Microsoft Search across SharePoint and Office.com youâll be able to precisely find what a painter is able to depict in an instant with new image search.

Image search in SharePoint

Improved filter design and new filters

New out of the box filters will make it easier to find what you need, whether a file, presentation, page, or something else in addition to precisely searching for the most up-to-date .

And stay tuned for being able to use your own filters based on the refineable managed properties in the coming months.

Improved filter design and new filters in SharePoint

Topic search

Finding information is awesome, organizing that information is even better. Topic answers will come later this calendar year as part of Project Cortex. Project Cortex topics uses AI to identify knowledge topics across teams and systems, and automatically organize related resources and experts to create topic pages--like Wikipedia pages for the enterprise, built by AI. Topics bring together people, content, and information and have a name, definition, description and connections to people, content (e.g. files and sites) and conversations. Topics are automatically mined from content and curated by end-users. Topics can also be created manually.

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[i]Topic search in SharePoint[/i]

[b]Personal query history[/b]

Search is something we use every day, a lot, and itâs hard to keep track of what you last searched for now youâll no longer need to search for what youâve searched for adding a new option to view and manage your personal query history. With personal query history, you'll see your recent queries as you begin typing in the search box to help you get back to insights and information you recently used or accessed so you'll no longer have to bookmark your queries or memorize the right query to get you back to where you were. Your personal query history can be managed through your Office 365 My Account settings and new My Account privacy controls allow you to delete your query history or download your query history for future reference.

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[i]Personal query history in Microsoft Search[/i]

[b]New and improved answers in Microsoft Search[/b]

[b]Acronym answers[/b]

Did you know the world's longest acronym, according to the [b][url='https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinness_Book_of_World_Records']Guinness Book of World Records[/url][/b] is NIIOMTPLABOPARMBETZHELBETRABSBOMONIMONKONOTDTEKHSTROMONT?

Often, we come across unfamiliar acronyms at work. Sometimes, these terms could even mean specific to different teams, projects, or organizations. Finding the meaning of acronyms at work is now easier than ever using natural language queries across Microsoft 365 apps and services. For example, you can query âDefine DNNâ, âWhat is DNNâ, âMeaning of DNNâ etc. to see all the definitions of DNN used within your organization. Definitions are both mined from the content you have access to and curated by your organizations, Microsoft 365 administrator.

Acronyms answers are currently available in SharePoint and Office.com (in English) in addition to Bing.com (in English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Italian) and soon in Outlook web, Outlook mobile, Teams mobile, Office apps like Word, Excel and PowerPoint in English and additional languages.

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[i]Acronym answers in Microsoft Teams desktop and mobile[/i]

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[i]Acronym answers in SharePoint[/i]

[b]Calendar answers[/b]

Wondering when is your next product meeting or your next meeting with a colleague while you are on-the- go? Forget scrolling through your phoneâs calendar to find it. You can now use voice or type in the search box and find your meetings in your favorite Outlook mobile app!

Want to forward a meeting to a colleague or reply to an invite with meeting notes? Forget navigating to calendar and browsing through it to find the meeting. You can now search for it right in your inbox without switching views on your large screen Outlook clients!

We have been working to make it easy and natural for you to find your events. No more scrolling or browsing required! You can look for a meeting/event with its <title>â, <attendee name> or <time of the meeting>. You can RSVP to the meeting, send emails or join a Teams meeting right from the answer!

The calendar answer is available for enterprise users on in the US market and is soon going to be available on Outlook on the web, Outlook for Windows and Outlook for Android with support for Microsoft Accounts and other markets.

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[i]Calendar Answers in Outlook for iOS and on the web[/i]

[b]File answers[/b]

Search through your piles of files in Outlook just the way you think!

Our data suggests that a quarter of search sessions in Outlook end in users opening an attachment or a link in the email. much faster and simply natural. You can now search for files using natural syntax containing file name, author of the file, sender of the email that contains a file or just the file type across attachments youâve received in addition to files someone shared with you on a Teams chat or your files in OneDrive For Business and SharePoint.

Files Answers will initially be available on and Outlook on the web in the US market with fast follow in other Outlook clients and other markets.

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[i]Files Answer on Outlook on the web and mobile[/i]

[b]Making the most of Microsoft Search[/b]

Microsoft Search provides a robust set of tools you can use to make search work better for your organization and now weâre expanding the options available to you and your organization.

Are your employees finding what they need? Is search working for you? Over the next several weeks we will begin rolling out new administrative features to help you answer these questions with a new feedback loop and improved search analytics.

[b]Admin feedback[/b]

One of the most common asks for Microsoft Search is to help keep its users engaged through understanding the value of results or a personâs individual search success rate. The new feedback feature in Microsoft Search allows your employees to securely provide feedback to you, the search administrator, on the quality of their search results, suggest answers, and be a partner in the lifecycle of search in your organization.

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[i]Admin feedback, administrator and employee views[/i]

[b]Analytics[/b]

Tenant Analytics give you the tools and insights to make search great for your company. A new Microsoft Search Insights dashboard will help admins keep employees productive with insights into what they're searching for. See top search queries run on Microsoft Search, along with an impression distribution over time for various answers.

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[i]Microsoft Search analytics, administrator view[/i]

[b]Making search uniquely yours[/b]

Search works best when you can personalize it to suit your unique needs. Over the next several months, we will begin gradually allowing for greater customization of the search experience with Microsoft Search to include custom verticals and filters. Youâll be able to edit out-of-box verticals or create your own, change the way results look and add your own filters based on refinable managed properties.

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[i]Custom vertical in SharePoint[/i]

In addition, a layout designer will make it even more simple to create compelling views of connector content via Adaptive Cards.

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[i]Microsoft Search layout designer[/i]

[b]Search wherever you are working[/b]

Last month we began making Microsoft Search available to more apps and services in Microsoft 365 to include contextual search in Microsoft Teams and now, Microsoft Search in Windows, Outlook, and more improvements in Teams and weâre building on that work to bring Microsoft Search to more Microsoft 365 apps and services.

[b]Microsoft Teams[/b]

As your organizationâs use of Teams grows, so does content stored in teams, giving you a rich breadth and history of messages, files, meeting content and other organization knowledge to draw on.

Earlier this year we rolled out improved autosuggest results and the ability to get contextual search results in your channels or chats using CTRL + F as you enter your search terms and recently we enabled contextual search from mobile as well. The new full page immersive search results page experience in Teams will deliver on the vision to help you achieve more by finding content faster and more reliably. The experience is optimized for recognition and users will be presented with better relevance and context in the results. Filters are also easier to access allowing people to find exactly what they are looking for. We will also be bringing the power of Microsoft Search into Teams by introducing answers mined from your organization knowledge which will help users get their job done faster.

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[i]Microsoft Search in Microsoft Teams[/i]

[b]Outlook[/b]

Searching is the second most popular activity behind email, and over the next several months weâll be bringing new search innovation to help you find and discover with more accuracy, in less time.

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[i]Microsoft Search in Outlook mobile[/i]

We recognize the best search experiences are those that speak your language, can understand ambiguities, and deliver the most confident results where and when you need them. Outlook supports Microsoft Search that recognizes search queries using language you use every day to filter and narrow search results through either typing or speaking via a new microphone option in the search bar. Searching for something specific about a contact will provide an actionable result such as "John's phone number". Search for a specific contact will use Microsoft Search services to provide relevant and actionable results rather than keywords from information from your email and calendar. In addition, real-time updates in travel reminders, powered by Bing and more in the reminder card.

[b]Windows[/b]

Microsoft Search is designed to meet you wherever your working, and now your desktop. Coming soon to Windows 10, when logged in with a Work Account youâll be able to search across your local and organizational content right from the Windows search box.

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[i]Microsoft Search in Windows[/i]

[b]Microsoft Office[/b]

Office is with you everywhere you go, on mobile, in the browser and on your desktop.

Microsoft Search has been a part of Office.com for some time already for enterprise users, making it super simple to find apps, get back to files and access all the knowledge in the enterprise from in one place. Now the familiar Microsoft Search experience has also come to consumer Office.com.

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Now weâre bringing Microsoft Search to your favorite productivity apps you use every day in Microsoft 365. When youâre using Word, Excel or PowerPoint, the familiar Microsoft search box is at the top of the app, helping you be productive, and taking advantage of the knowledge of your organization and the web to help be more productive.

How often have you had to dig through a document to find something because the document didn't use the exact words you had searched for?

With the recent breakthroughs in deep learning techniques, you can now go beyond the common search term-based queries and get answers to your questions based on the document content, opening a whole new way of finding knowledge. For example, when youâre looking at a water quality report, you can easily answer questions like where does the city water originate from? How to reduce the amount of lead in water?

By bringing the well-established web search technologies such as query and document understanding, and indexing, and adding deep learning based natural language models, we can now handle a much broader set of search queries beyond âexact match.â

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[i]Microsoft Search in Microsoft Word[/i]

On mobile, the Office app letâs you find all your files and work on PowerPoint, Word and Excel without switching apps. When youâre on the go the app also lets you perform common tasks such as scanning QR codes, signing PDFs or transforming pictures into editable Word and Excel documents.

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[b]Connecting your businesses' islands of information[/b]

Not only is the amount of information growing at exponential rates, but it is increasingly distributed â from on-premises to cloud applications. Today we announced that Microsoft Graph connectors for Microsoft Search will be generally available later this year and the expansion of our robust ecosystem to include partners Box, Adobe, Cognizant, Go1, LumApps, Accenture, Raytion, Cognizant, and BA Insight.

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[i]Microsoft Graph connectors in SharePoint[/i]

With Microsoft Graph connectors, you can connect disparate systems whether on-premises or in the cloud so you can find information, in context, where youâre working.

Along with new Microsoft Graph connectors, weâre also working hard to make Microsoft Search more integrated across Microsoft products to include Microsoft Azure. Upcoming Microsoft Azure integration will create a âboundarylessâ cohesive and coherent search experience, Microsoft Search will be able to display query results from existing Azure Cognitive Search indices, such as those powering mobile, web, and custom line-of-business applications.

[b]A new way to take advantage of Microsoft Search[/b]

Lastly, for customers who may not have an Office 365 subscription, weâre pleased to announce a new standalone Microsoft Search service so you can help your employees find information quickly and precisely. Microsoft Search brings the best of intelligent product search to your organization, now whether integrated with Microsoft 365 or used as our new standalone service you can connect to all your applications and data platforms. To learn more or nominate your organization for our private preview visit [b][url]https://aka.ms/msftsearchstandalone[/url][/b].

Keep up-to-date with the latest Microsoft Search innovation by bookmarking our roadmap at [b][url='https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/roadmap?rtc=1&filters=Microsoft%20Search']https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/micr...osoft%20Search[/url][/b].

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hurricane51 · Sep 22, 2020

Edge Search Does Not Permit Change of Region

I got these suggestions from the Microsoft Community forum.No. 1 worked for me:

Thank you for posting the query on Microsoft Community. I am glad to assist you on this.
We have reproduce the issue here and we are able to access non-regional search for google using Microsoft Edge.
I would suggest you to try the below steps and check if it helps.
Step 1:
Clear browsing data option of Microsoft Edge and check if you face the issue. To do so perform the steps below.

Click on the More actions icon next to the feedback icon present on top right corner of the Project Spartan homepage.

Select Settings and click on Choose what to clear.

Check the boxes Browsing history, Cookies and saved website data and Cached data and files and click on Clear.

Step 2:
I suggest you to create a new user account and check if the issue occurs.

Go to Settings.

Choose Accounts and then select Family and other users.

Select add someone else on this PC.

Enter a user name and hit next.

Click on Finish.

Sign out from the current Account and Log into the new account.

Step 3:
It could also happen because of network issue. I suggest you to try with different network connection and check if it helps.

malware · Sep 22, 2020

Microsoft Outlines New Search Business Model: Live Search Cashback

Microsoft Corp. today announced it will offer ad-funded cash rebates to customers who find and purchase their favorite products through a new program called Microsoft Live Search cashback. Key partners including eBay, Barnes & Noble.com, Overstock.com, Sears, Zappos.com, and WPP joined Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates at advance08, Microsoft’s annual advertising customer event, to announce their participation in the new program.

The complete Live Search cashback product portfolio includes more than 10 million product offers from more than 700 merchants, including more than 13 of the top 40 U.S. retailers. The company also announced it has delivered a new Live Search travel destination, Live Search Farecast, making it easy for searchers to find the best travel deals on the Web.

“We believe search can offer much more value to consumers and advertisers than it does today, and we see Live Search cashback as an important opportunity to deliver additional value,” Gates said. “Our goal is to make Live Search the most rewarding commercial search destination on the Web. Live Search cashback will help advertisers drive more online sales while giving consumers a new way to stretch their dollars.”

During his keynote address, Gates outlined three areas of focus for the company’s broad search vision:

Delivering the best search results by continuing to focus on relevancy and selection

Expanding the role of search around the set of tasks that searchers are most often working to accomplish — including commerce, entertainment, navigation and reference — through improvements in its user experience, intelligent tools and access across devices

Innovating in the economic model that today powers the search business by rewarding both advertisers and consumers for engagement

Today’s announcements of Live Search cashback and Live Search Farecast signify that commerce queries will be the first of the four tasks on which the company will focus. As part of this “Commercial Search” strategy, Microsoft aims to make Live Search the premier search engine for the growing category of search queries that help consumers conduct research and purchase goods or services, and which are critical to merchants aiming to drive online sales of their products.

Source: Microsoft

Brink · Sep 22, 2020

Check out all the Microsoft 365 news shared at #MSIgnite

We’re at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando, Fla., today with more than 25,000 business customers and IT leaders from around the world. We’ve shared news spanning Microsoft’s commercial businesses – Office 365, Windows 10, Enterprise Security + Mobility and much more – with a focus on how the company is empowering people and organizations to succeed in a rapidly evolving workplace and innovate for the future.

Check out more details below on how Microsoft 365 is enabling a modern workplace and empowering all workers, students, and educators with technology to be more creative, productive and secure.

Advancing intelligence, management and security to empower the Modern Workplace

All Workers Welcome with Microsoft 365

Announcing Microsoft 365 Education, a single, affordable technology solution built for education

Maximizing IT’s Impact with Microsoft 365 Powered Devices

Announcing Windows 10 S Devices for Firstline Workers

Stepping Up Protection with Intelligent Security

New Microsoft 365 Features to Accelerate GDPR Compliance

Windows resources to help support your GDPR compliance

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