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Azure Search from Microsoft provides an easy to use search service in the Cloud and is especially useful for providing powerful search services for web applications and mobile apps. In today's blog, we'll be covering the basics you need to know to get started using this feature. Let's dive in!
Azure Search has both a simple query syntax which supports full text search including logical operators, phrase search, as well as suffix and precedence operators. In addition, there is a Lucene query syntax that supports fuzzy search, proximity search, term boosting, and regular expressions.
As opposed to Microsoft Global Search, Azure Search also supports full text search and can search across multiple entities, however, it does has a limit on the number of entities that can be enabled for Global search. Azure Search offers these key benefits:
As you can see, the Azure Search index provides many options for customizing and configuring the search experience. A key item to note is that a search query can be issued only against one index.
Setting up Azure Search
Here are a few things to keep in mind when setting up the Azure Search:
Azure Search provides a quick and easy way of augmenting your custom web app with rich search capabilities. The specific application for this example was a simplified case management portal, using CRM 2016 Online as the back end, Azure Search for proving search capabilities and hosted on Azure Load balanced VMs with Office 365 providing authentication.
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