Manage access to Web Knowledge Source in your Azure subscription

Important

  • Web Knowledge Source, which uses Grounding with Bing Search and/or Grounding with Bing Custom Search, is a First Party Consumption Service governed by the Grounding with Bing terms of use and the Microsoft Privacy Statement.

  • The Microsoft Data Protection Addendum doesn't apply to data sent to Web Knowledge Source. When Customer uses Web Knowledge Source, Customer Data flows outside the Azure compliance and Geo boundary. This also means use of Web Knowledge Source waives all elevated Government Community Cloud security and compliance commitments to include data sovereignty and screened/citizenship-based support, as applicable.

  • Use of Web Knowledge Source incurs costs; learn more about pricing.

Note

This feature is currently in public preview. This preview is provided without a service-level agreement and isn't recommended for production workloads. Certain features might not be supported or might have constrained capabilities. For more information, see Supplemental Terms of Use for Azure Previews.

As an Azure admin, you can use the Azure CLI to enable or disable the use of Web Knowledge Source at the subscription level. This setting applies to all search services within the specified subscription.

Prerequisites

  • Have Owner or Contributor access to the subscription.

  • Have the Azure CLI installed. If you're not already signed in to Azure, run az login.

Check the current access state

To check the current status of Web Knowledge Source access, run the following command.

az feature show --name WebKnowledgeSourceDisabled --namespace Microsoft.Search --subscription "<subscription-id>"

The output shows the state property, which indicates the current registration status:

  • Registered means access is disabled.
  • Unregistered means access is enabled, which is the default state.

Enable use of Web Knowledge Source

Access to Web Knowledge Source is enabled by default. If access has been disabled, you can run the following command to enable it.

az feature unregister --name WebKnowledgeSourceDisabled --namespace Microsoft.Search --subscription "<subscription-id>"

Disable use of Web Knowledge Source

Run the following command to disable access to Web Knowledge Source.

az feature register --name WebKnowledgeSourceDisabled --namespace Microsoft.Search --subscription "<subscription-id>"

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