MicrosoftPreview

Last updated 2 days ago.

Compliant

What is MicrosoftPreview?

About

MicrosoftPreview generates page snapshots for Microsoft products. Note that MicrosoftPreview has "desktop" and "mobile" variants.

Operator

Microsoft

Documentationwww.bing.com

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Did you find MicrosoftPreview/2.0; +https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPreview in your logs?

If you've seen MicrosoftPreview/2.0; +https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPreview in your website logs, it indicates that MicrosoftPreview has been visiting your site. This agent string is one of the known identifiers for this bot.

MicrosoftPreview/2.0; +https://aka.ms/MicrosoftPreview

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Expected Behavior

This bot visits websites for various purposes including content analysis, data collection, or automated tasks. Its behavior may vary depending on its specific function and configuration.

Should I Block MicrosoftPreview?

This bot is marked as compliant, meaning it generally respects robots.txt directives and follows good practices. You may choose to allow it if you want your content to be accessible to its services.

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How Do I Block MicrosoftPreview?

You can block this bot or limit its access by setting user agent token rules in your website's robots.txt file. Use Spyglasses analytics to check whether it's actually following your rules.

User Agent Tokens

MicrosoftPreview\/Should match instances of this bot

robots.txt

# robots.txt
# This should block MicrosoftPreview

User-agent: MicrosoftPreview\/
Disallow: /

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