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Restricted Content Discovery
SharePoint Advanced Management includes a feature called "Restricted Content Discovery" aka RCD.
The FAQs mention that:
Restricted Content Discovery only affects tenant-wide search (SharePoint home, Office.com, Bing) and Microsoft 365 Copilot
But then it goes on to mention:
Restricted Content Discovery doesn't remove content from the tenant search index.
and:
Restricted Content Discovery is a site-level property.
I completely understand that its intended use is to give organisations time to review and/or audit permissions and deploy access controls while onboarding Copilot in a safe manner. My focus is custom search solutions and custom apps that use search and should respect the RCD property.
Being a property and the content remains in the index, it could be interpreted that RCD feature only works in the named services i.e. SharePoint Home, Office.com, Bing and Microsoft Copilot and it does not apply in Micrsoft Search, custom organisation-wide Search solutions e.g. using PnP-Search, API calls using the Graph etc.
Is that the case?
Also can the property be queried and retrieved using the Search API or is it limited to PowerShell?
Thank you Kidd_Ip . I used Microsoft Learn article for the quotes in my post. That article and additional research led me to raise these questions:
[Q] Being a property and the content remains in the index, it could be interpreted that RCD feature only works in the named services i.e. SharePoint Home, Office.com, Bing and Microsoft Copilot and it does not apply in Micrsoft Search, custom organisation-wide Search solutions e.g. using PnP-Search, API calls using the Graph etc. Is that the case?
[Q] Can the property be queried and retrieved using the Search API or is it limited to PowerShell?
