[BUG]

[jnank-insight]

Reporting an Issue or Missing Feature

We have identified an issue when provisioning SharePoint sites using the New-PnPSite command.
When creating Team Sites with this command, the site and its contents do NOT appear in search results.
The inability to search applies both to content within the site and to the site itself.

In contrast, when creating Communication Sites using the same command, search functionality works as expected. Both the site and its contents are indexed and returned in search results.

This suggests a potential difference in how search indexing is triggered or configured for Team Sites created via New-PnPSite.

We have tested this in different tenants with the same results. However, creating sites manually via SharePoint Admin this issue does not occur. It only occurs when provisioning team sites via powershell.

Expected behavior

We should be able to search for a teamsite and its content.

Actual behavior

No content appears in search when searching on a teamsite created using New-PNPSite

Steps to reproduce behavior

$site = New-PnPSite -Type TeamSite -Title "MyTestTitle" -Alias "MyTestAlias" -Owner "MyTestOwner@email.com" -Connection $con -Wait | Out-Null

What is the version of the Cmdlet module you are running?

PNP.Powershell is version 3.1.0

Which operating system/environment are you running PnP PowerShell on?

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS
• Azure Cloud Shell
• Azure Functions
• Powershell
• Other : please specify

[reshmee011]

Are you applying any other settings which could potentially affect search, check the following:

1. Do you have read access to the provisioned site?
2. Are there any contents in the site?
3. Share the KQL you used to search contents, try Path:
4. Try to execute query using the search API to rule out it is not an issue with OOB search https://constoso.sharepoint.com/_api/search/query?querytext='Path:"https://contoso.sharepoint.com/sites/ProductSupport/Shared Documents"', if so raise a ticket with Microsoft
5. Try to reindex the contents of the sites
6. Use Get-PnPCrawlLog against the site to see if the contents have been crawled.
7. Check whether the site setting is not excluded from search
8. Are you using the Restricted Content Discoverability Copilot feature?
9. Is the search consistent at Tenant, site and library?