The Upcoming Cloud SSA and Next Generation Hybrid Search: Initial Thoughts

At the Microsoft Ignite Conference last week, we got our first look at the upcoming Cloud Search Service Application (SSA), which enables on premise environments to push content to a Search Index running in SharePoint Online (SPO). And with it coming to SharePoint 2013 by the end of the year (and to SharePoint 2016 upon its release), we’ll be able to leverage this sooner than we thought, too. In this post, I provide some additional insights on the Cloud SSA and some speculation based on what we heard at Ignite.

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