I would like to exclude/hide external/guest users in the people search in our SharePoint intranet site. In SharePoint admin centre  created a new search “local people search2”  which excludes external users using –AccountName:“#ext#”

Than in the “People-Directory.aspx” and “peopleresults.aspx” pages, I have edited the pages and webpart section and changed the query using “change query” section where I changed from the default “local people search” to “local people search2” see below. I saved and published the changes but it keeps defaulting back to “local people search” instead on “local people search2”, where am I going wrong, why does it keep defaulting back? When I test the query in the edit webpart it does what I need it to do, but it does not save the change from “local people search” instead on “local people search2”

​I would like to exclude/hide external/guest users in the people search in our SharePoint intranet site. In SharePoint admin centre  created a new search “local people search2″  which excludes external users using -AccountName:”#ext#”  Than in the “People-Directory.aspx” and “peopleresults.aspx” pages, I have edited the pages and webpart section and changed the query using “change query” section where I changed from the default “local people search” to “local people search2” see below. I saved and published the changes but it keeps defaulting back to “local people search” instead on “local people search2”, where am I going wrong, why does it keep defaulting back? When I test the query in the edit webpart it does what I need it to do, but it does not save the change from “local people search” instead on “local people search2”   Read More

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