SPO Trigger Re-index scripts by [@mikaelsvenson]

Scripts

• reindex-users.ps1 - Script to mark SharePoint user profiles to be picked up at the next crawl.
• reindex-users-v2.ps1 - More efficient script to mark SharePoint online content to be picked up at the next crawl.

Re-indexing of user profiles

Todd Klindt created an updated PowerShell function based on the script which is worth taking a look at.

https://pnp.github.io/script-samples/spo-request-pnp-reindex-user-profile/README.html

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See How to trigger re-indexing of user profiles in SharePoint On-line for an explanation of user profile indexing

The v1 script will iterate all user profiles in SPO to force a trigger of re-indexing of the profiles on the next crawl.

The v2 script is using the profile bulk-import option to do the same. A much more efficient way especially if you have many profiles to update.

Monitoring has shown that indexing of user profiles happens at approximately a 4 hour interval (per December 10th 2014). I have seen as low as 2h (night time) and as high as 8h (daytime).

Example 1

.\reindex-users.ps1 -url https://contoso-admin.sharepoint.com # admin site required

You can also add the switch -changeProperty to choose if you want to use SPS-Birthday or Department (now default) as your change property.

Example 2

.\reindex-users-v2.ps1 -url https://contoso.sharepoint.com # any non-admin site