Differences between Standard vs Enterprise Search sites for SharePoint Online (Office 365).

Hi,

What are the differences between the Standard Search site and the Enterprise Search sites for SharePoint Online (Office 365). Can someone please give me details on what I can do on a Enterprise Search site that I can not do on the Standard Search Site. This is for a SharePoint Online (Office 365) and not a on premise SharePoint environment.

I hope you can help

CEStar

August 19th, 2015 4:43am

Hi,

Do you want to know the differences between the Basic Search site and the Enterprise Search site in SharePoint online?

Basic Search center only allows to search within lists or within sites. Search results are displayed on a system page where you cannot customize easily. You can only edit the existing search page and search result page and we cannot add more pages of our own to it.

Enterprise Search center allows to search across site collections and even web applications. You can author our own pages, and overall much better control over searching in general. In enterprise search center, video search is supported and center provides Navigation Verticals.  Also, you need to enable two site level features: SharePoint Server Standard Site Collection features feature and SharePoint Server Publishing Infrastructure feature.

Feel freely to reply if you need more help.

Thanks,

Dean Wang

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August 20th, 2015 3:50am

MANY THANKS Dean !!

For your clearly explained description of the "Differences between Standard vs Enterprise Search sites for SharePoint Online (Office 365)". It help me understand the difference immediately.

One last Question, do you know if this also applies to SharePoint on premise versions, or are there more differences? I may be working on a SharePoint on premise version over the next few months.

Thanks Again,
CEStar
  • Edited by ceBlueSky Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:01 AM
August 20th, 2015 10:50am

Hi CEStar,

Here is a post about detailed explanation for the difference between search within on-premise SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online:

http://www.findwise.com/blog/search-within-cloud-and-on-premise-sharepoint-2013/

It would be helpful to you and feel freely to reply if you need more help.

Thanks,

Dean Wang

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August 23rd, 2015 10:35pm

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