Minor versions not indexed

In some tenants, SharePoint search does not index minor versions of documents, resulting in only showing published versions of documents when searching for documents. Currently approximately 10% of our clients have reported this issue.

By design SharePoint should index minor versions, if “Draft Item Security” = “Any user who can read items”, is applied (default setting in MetaShare).

We have opened a couple of support tickets with Microsoft (26293810 and 25989452), they have been able to reproduce this issue and are looking for a solution. We hope that a quick fix will come within soon.

Status: Microsoft have been able to reproduce this issue and have made changes in the service. if you are experiencing the above problem a re-indexing of the affected document library should now fix it.

Reported: 4 June 2021, 10:50 am (CET)
Resolved: 9 July 2021, 3:22 pm (CET)