How to block search in the whole tenant Sharepoint share

Question

Hello,

I want to share some items using Sharepoint in Office365, is there any posibility to remove the suggestions? or make a separate list just for the sharepoint site ?

Answer 1

@Ovidiu Drăgan @Logicnet Solution ,

Normally, the People Picker control provides a "friendly" display of users or groups when a claim authentication is used.

And now we can disable the people search functionality used in the People Picker. The "friendly" display can be disabled by using the SearchResolveExactEmailOrUPN parameter of the Set-SPOTenant cmdlet.

With the feature disabled, in order to resolve names in the people picker, we must enter the user's full email address or User Principal Name (UPN).

This example disables starts with for all users/partial name search functionality for all SharePoint users, except SharePoint Admins.

#Variables for processing  
$AdminURL = "https://tenant-admin.sharepoint.com/"  
$AdminName = "julie@tenant.onmicrosoft.com"  
    
#User Names Password to connect  
$Password = Read-host -assecurestring "Enter Password for $AdminName"  
$Credential = new-object -typename System.Management.Automation.PSCredential -argumentlist $AdminName, $Password  
  
#Connect to SharePoint Online  
Connect-SPOService -url $AdminURL -credential $Credential  
  
Set-SPOTenant -SearchResolveExactEmailOrUPN $true  

Note, recently resolved names will still appear in the list until browser cache is cleared or expired.
This also does not allow SharePoint users to search for security groups or SharePoint groups.
SharePoint Administrators will still be able to use starts with or partial name matching when enabled.

More information for your reference:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/plan-to-disable-people-discovery-in-onedrive-and-sharepoint-cdbe97f9-a872-4aec-b94a-36844ec2b9aa?ui=en-us&rs=en-us&ad=us

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Answer 2

check solution mentioned here: People Picker - Disable auto-suggestions. It will allow turn off people picker automatic suggestions in particular list while it will still work in other places (which is probably better than disabling it in whole tenant).