Crawl Azure Files Share from SharePoint Online

Michele Casazza 26

Is it possible to crawl/index content from Azure File Shares and surface it in the SPO search?

Emily Du-MSFT 41,941 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-22T01:38:06.933+00:00

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Emily Du-MSFT 41,941 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-24T10:22:53.367+00:00

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T. Kujala 8,706 Reputation points

2020-07-17T04:45:14.947+00:00

Hi @MicheleCasazza-6919,

Unfortunately, this can't be done by using the SPO Online Search.
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Emily Du-MSFT 41,941 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2020-07-17T07:26:27.47+00:00

I don't think it's possible to crawl content from Azure File Shares in the SharePoint Online search.
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Trevor Seward 11,681 Reputation points

2020-07-19T18:49:12.43+00:00

A couple of suggestions come to mind, though admittedly I haven't tried them.

1) Leverage SharePoint Hybrid Search to crawl the Azure File Share, this would require a SharePoint Server deployment on-premises.
2) Using Microsoft Search and the Data Management Gateway, crawl the file share. Results will be exposed via Microsoft Search. This requires an on-premises deployment.
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Michele Casazza 26 Reputation points

2020-07-28T12:13:18.42+00:00

thanks for the reply

I don't think that is possible, you cannot add Azure File Share as content source

the file share connector is only for on-prem file share, not Azure File Share

Trevor Seward 11,681 Reputation points

2020-07-29T13:40:30.537+00:00

All SharePoint/File Share connector cares about is that it is a file share and that the account has access to read the contents.
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Sumarigo-MSFT 43,806 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-07-22T06:23:46.077+00:00

This should work in your scenario: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/MicrosoftSearch/file-share-connector

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Sumarigo-MSFT 43,806 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-07-28T09:02:12.007+00:00

@MicheleCasazza-6919 Just checking in to see if the above answer helped. If this answers your query, please don’t forget to "Accept the answer" and Up-Vote for the same, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.

Sumarigo-MSFT 43,806 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-07-29T10:11:55.847+00:00

MicheleCasazza-6919 Just checking in to see if the above answer helped. If this answers your query, please don’t forget to "Accept the answer" and Up-Vote for the same, which might be beneficial to other community members reading this thread. And, if you have any further query do let us know.
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