How to configure Azure Search with Share point

Question

Dear all,

We have a customer case where we need to build a presentation demo based on the follwowing use case :

Customer is using sharepoint on azure with SP image in order to deliver there all internal documentation and KB articles to worldwilde company office.
They would like to extend the sharepoint search engine using the Azure Search service.

I have never play with that actually and have only 2 week to make a demo proposal.

is tehre any step by step guide in order to go through such configuration integration ?

Thanks for pointing me out to proper ressources that I could not find so far.

You know when you lear new things you can start from any side of the feature but at some point you need to start from the most suitable side in order that integration goes smoothly

Thanks for help on this
regards

Answer 1

Hi @CalderaraSerge-8943,

Are you familiar with the Azure Cognitive Search documentatiton?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/

If you are looking for a way to extend SharePoint sites to use an Azure Blob storage, it's not unfortunately supported.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/sharepoint/how-to-setup-sharepoint-site-to-use-azure-blob-storage/m-p/331761

Answer 2

Hi @CalderaraSerge-8943,

In addition to the resource provided by @TKujala, have a look at documentation as well. It has tutorials, quickstarts, and the like. There isn't an end-to-end sample that you could review but here are samples that you can use to get started. Could you elaborate further on the use case for using Cognitive search with SharePoint and why the embedded search isn't sufficient? That would better direct you. For now, I would advise using Microsoft Graph to read files off the sharepoint and use those results to build an index. I've added some links below that will direct you to some sample code.

• SharePoint
• Cognitive Search