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From YouTube: Latest on Cloud Hybrid Search (SSA) & Graph connectors for indexing content from on-premises
Description
In this 12-minute developer focused demo – Harshit Kumar tells how Cloud Hybrid Search a.k.a. Cloud SSA, creates a single cloud-based index and interleaves search content from multiple internal/external sources in results. Alternatively, Microsoft Search powered by Microsoft Graph uses Graph connectors (3 types - Microsoft-built (14), Partner (130+), Custom (X)) to bring in data from various sources. See search experiences that use Graph connectors rolling out in 2022 - Intelligent Discovery, Viva Topics, Context IQ, etc. Sign-up for Graph connectors SDK Preview. This PnP Community demo is taken from the weekly Microsoft 365 Platform Community call recorded on February 15, 2022.
Demo Presenter: Harshit Kumar (Microsoft)
Supporting materials:
• Documentation - Overview of Microsoft Graph connectors | aka.ms/GraphConnectors
• Preview - Microsoft Graph connectors SDK - Preview Sign Up | aka.ms/GCSDKPreview
• Survey - SharePoint Search: Cloud SSA & Microsoft Graph Connectors | aka.ms/CloudSSA
Learn more:
• Learn more about the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community at: http://aka.ms/m365pnp
• Visit the Microsoft 365 Patterns and Practices community YouTube channel: https://aka.ms/m365pnp/videos
A
Please,
please
help
us
answer
those
questions
and
we
want
to
get
feedback
from
you
right.
So
the
topic
today
is
cloud
ssa
and
graph
connectors
right
and-
and
this
is
like
what
I
plan
to
cover
today-
I
will
quickly
give
a
brief
introduction
on
what
cloud
ssa
is
and
what
is
microsoft
search
and
how
we
can
help
as
graph
connectors
to
help
you
explore
graph
connectors.
If
you
are
a
cloud
ssa
customers,
how
do
you
explore
graph
connectors
and
kind
of
get
value,
get
more
value
as
as
a
customer
right?
A
So
that's
kind
of
the
engine
like
the
nutshell
and
I'll.
Do
a
demo
of
microsoft,
search
with
connectors?
Also
so
with
that
yeah.
A
quick
overview
of
what
cloud
ssa
cloud,
ssa
or
cloud
hybrid
search
is
our
sharepoint
hybrid
search
solution
and
which
means
that
if
you
have
a
sharepoint
on-prem
installation,
it
could
be
a
2013
or
2016.
A
Plus
some
of
your
content
is
sitting
in
sharepoint
online.
You
could
use
cloud
ssa
to
index
content,
which
is
sitting
on-prem,
which
could
be
inside
your
sharepoint
installation,
on-prem
or
it
could
be
sitting
in
your
file,
share
websites
and
bunch
of
other
on-prem
data
sources.
You
might
have
right
so
this
cloud
ssl
solution
helps
you
bring
all
the
index
into
one
single
location
which
is
sitting
in
the
in
the
cloud
in
the
office
distribute
cloud
and
it
lets
you
query
from
both
sides.
A
You
can,
from
your
users,
can
query
in
the
sharepoint
online
as
well
as
your
users,
if
they're
sitting
on-prem,
they
can
query
in
the
on-prem
sharepoint
search
box
as
well,
so
it
kind
of
provides
you
best
of
both
worlds,
essentially
right.
So
if
you
look
at
the
end
user
experience
in
this
cloud,
hybrid
search
people
can
search
on
both
and
they
will
get
inter-lead
results
right.
So
with
that,
in
fact,
I
karthik
and
you
want
to
post
your
question.
A
A
Okay,
thank
you.
So
so
that's
the
user
experience
and
in
terms
of
cloud
ssa,
enabling
you
to
bring
in
content
from
non-microsoft
sources.
Cloud
ssa
supports
these.
These
things,
as
I
mentioned,
sharepoint
site
websites,
which
could
be
non-sharepoint
based,
on-prem
file,
shares
exchange,
public
folders
or
you
could
even
use
line-up.
You
can
bring
in
data
from
your
line
of
business
applications
right
and
for
that
line
of
business
applications.
A
A
All
that
content
is
crawled
and
parsed
and
it
is
plugged
into
through
the
search
content
service
which
we
have,
which
is
in
like
an
intermediate
service
and
eventually
the
content
kind
of
goes
and
sits
into
the
sharepoint
online
form,
which
is
again
owned
and
managed
by
your
like
managed
by
microsoft,
but
it
is
owned
by
their
tenant.
So
the
data
is
all
secure
and
within
your
tenant,
boundary
right.
A
So
this
is
kind
of
a
high-level
picture
of
what
cloud
ssa
provides
you
so
now
moving
along
so
now
introducing
microsoft,
search
right,
so
microsoft,
search
as
you
know,
is
the
modern
search
solution
right.
I
think
this.
This
was
launched
a
few
years
back
and
it
is
the
intelligent
search
for
your
workplace
right
and
it
is.
It
works
across
your
company
or
across
your
entire
microsoft
365
and
the
same
promise
of
microsoft.
A
Data
is
secure,
private
and
never
shared,
so
you
kind
of
are
the
owner
of
that
data,
and
you
have
full
control
of
that
data
right.
The
results
in
microsoft
search
are
powered
by
microsoft
graph
and
they
are
personalized
for
you
and
your
your
work
essentially
and
also
microsoft
search
is
available
on
any
device
anywhere
right.
You
can
search
in
sharepoint,
office.com
bing.
We
have
graph
apis
available,
it's
also
available
in
teams
and
windows
desktop
right,
so
just
to
show
you
a
snippet
of
sharepoint.
A
A
So
now
what
about
the
external
data
sources
like
similar
to
what
cloud
ssa,
provided
we
have
graph
connectors
which
bring
let
you
lets
you
bring
in
content
from
your
third
party
data
sources,
plug
it
in
into
microsoft
graph,
and
once
the
data
is
plugged
into
microsoft,
graph,
it
powers,
microsoft,
search
plus
bunch
of
intelligent
experiences.
Some
of
these
experiences
are
in
preview.
Some
of
the
experiences
are
rolling
out
or
in
development.
A
I
think
I'll
show
you
some
glimpses
of
some
of
the
experiences,
but
these
are
all
intelligent
experiences
one,
and
these
are
enabled
once
you
bring
in
data
using
the
graph
connectors
so
and
just
going
deeper
on
the
on
the
graph
connector
itself.
We
have
three
kinds
of
graph
connectors.
We
have
some
microsoft
built
connectors.
A
We
have
our
partners
who
are
built
connectors
and
the
third
category
is
custom
connectors.
You
can
go
and
build
your
own
connectors
as
well,
so
just
to
quickly
show
a
demo
of
what
I
mean
by
the
connectors.
So
if
I
go
to
the
microsoft
admin
center
and
under
that
which
is
admin.microsoft.com-
and
I
log
in
with
my
admin
credentials,
I
go
to
search
and
intelligence
tab
here.
I
can
see
data
sources,
and
this
is
where
I
come
and
configure
my
graph
connectors.
A
A
So
if
I
go
to
the
search
experience,
if
I
go
to
my
sharepoint
site
for
my
company,
I
can
go
and
search
for
content
there.
So
this
is
the
connector.
This
is
the
content
which
is
sitting
in
sharepoint
plus.
I
can
search
my
azure
devops,
which
I
have
plugged
in,
or
I
have
a
jira
instance
which
I
have
plugged
in
into
into
this,
using
a
connector
or
even
the
azure
type
of
splikey.
I
think
that's
another
source
we
support,
but
just
showing
you
a
sample
of
these
and
similar
experiences.
A
You
will
get
in
office.com
and
also
bing.com,
so
this
is
kind
of
the
what
your
end
users
will
see
and
kind
of
interact
with.
So
in
the
interest
of
time,
I'll
just
quickly
go
through
some
of
this
stuff.
I
think
we
talked
about
this
catalog
research,
experience
and
graph
connected
licenses.
Licensing
microsoft
built
connectors
are
free,
but
we
charge
based
on
number
of
items.
You
index
we
for
every
e5
or
aviva
topics
license
you
get
500
items
free
and
you
can
buy
purchase
additional
quota.
A
We
also
have
a
three
months
free
trial,
so
if
you're
interested
we'll
provide
your
link
later
on
how
to
sign
up.
So
that
was
the
search
experience
and
the
other
intelligent
experiences
which
I
talked
about
intelligent
discovery.
If
I
go
to
office.com,
I
get
recommendation
and
content
which
is
recent
and
shared
amongst
my
peers
or
the
people
I
work
with
today.
This
content
is
primarily
1p,
which
is
like
sharepoint
onedrive
content,
but
we
are
plugging
in
3p
content.
So
in
this
case,
go
one.
Video
is
the
content
which
is
being
shown
here.
A
There
is
viva
topics
which
is
more
like
content,
curation
automatic
content
creation
and
such
so
today,
it's
again
based
on
1p,
but
we
are
working
on
building
this
for
3p
content
as
well
context.
Iq
is
another
intelligent
experience
which
will
help
you
contextually
insert
content
from
other
third-party
data
sources
right.
So
there's
a
so.
This
was
announced
in
november
and
we
have
a
preview
coming
up
later
this
year.
A
Graph
connectors
is
also
it's
already.
Microsoft
search
is
available
in
windows
search
box,
but
we
are
also
going
to
power
graph
connectors
at
windows
search-
and
this
is
coming
in
in
june,
thus
this
year,
so
you
don't
have
to
go
anywhere.
You
just
go
to
your
windows,
search
box
and
search
you'll,
see
content
from
your
connectors
from
your
third-party
data
sources.
Essentially,
in
addition,
as
I
mentioned,
you
can
build
your
own
custom
connector,
and
this
we
already
have
graph
apis
available.
Today
we
are
also
building
an
sdk,
and
this
sdk
is
in
preview
mode.
A
If
you
want
to
sign
up,
you
can
try
out
this
and
kind
of
build
your
own
connector
yeah.
So
in
summary,
I
think
we
are
saying
that
if
you
are
interested
in
this
cool
additional
capabilities
of
graph
connectors,
you
could
pretty
much
replace
your
cloud
ssa
box
with
the
on-prem
graph
connector
agent,
and
it
will
let
you
crawl.
All
your
on-prem
content
and
ingest
that
content
into
graph
right
and
once
the
content,
as
I
mentioned,
is
in
graph
it
can
power,
search
and
other
powerful
experiences
right.
A
So
cloud
ssa
still
continues
to
exist,
but
this
is
what
I'm
saying
graph
connectors
is
more
giving
you
more
value
and
more
kind
of
features
as
such.
So
that's
that-
and
this
is
a
quick
comparison
or
between
cloud
ssa
versus
graph
connectors,
so
pretty
much
all
the
major
data
sources
which
are
available
in
cloud
ssa.