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As you know, in order to enable the SharePoint 2013 Search REST API for anonymous users, you have to create a Query Properties Template file. The exact configuration steps are described in my article dedicated to configuring SharePoint 2013 Search REST API for anonymous users.
Why are Microsoft 365 reports showing anonymous user names?
Office 365 ProPlus is being renamed to Microsoft 365 Apps for enterprise. For more information about this change, read this blog post. Microsoft 365 reports show anonymous user names instead of the actual user names in the following reports: To see these reports in the Microsoft 365 admin center, go to Home > Reports > Usage.
When to use the anonymous search results cache?
You can benefit of the Anonymous search results cache not only within Content Search and Catalog Item Reuse Web Parts but also when using the Search REST API. This allows you to optimize the performance of your public-facing website even further.
Why is search JavaScript not working for anonymous users?
Upload the queryparametertemplate.xml file to the QueryPropertiesTemplate document library you created. The last step that is explained in each of the two articles is the step where you need to add the QueryTemplatePropertiesUrl parameter and file location to your search Rest call. Of course this is not possible when you are working via JSOM.
We have several documents with ‘SharePoint’ in the title but our Online URL also has sharepoint (https://***.sharepoint.com/). When users search for sharepoint, it returns all results because all results have that in their URL. How can we exclude this portion of the URL from the search results?
How are search queries used in SharePoint 2013?
On public-facing websites built on SharePoint 2013 and which use the new search-driven publishing model, each page request results in executing one or more search queries to retrieve the contents of that page. If you have a busy website this can lead to many search queries being executed in a short period of time.
One of the new capabilities of SharePoint 2013 is the search-driven publishing model. By leveraging the capabilities of SharePoint 2013 Search you can publish content from one or more sources to your public-facing website.