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Microsoft Preview

Name: Microsoft Preview
Author: Microsoft

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MicrosoftPreview generates page snapshots for Microsoft products. Operated by Microsoft.

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Assessment

Page Preview

What is Microsoft Preview?

Microsoft Preview is a web crawler operated by Microsoft. MicrosoftPreview generates page snapshots for Microsoft products.

Helpful — Verified, safe crawler. Respects robots.txt and provides operator documentation.

Identification

Bot name

Microsoft Preview

Operator

Microsoft

Why it crawls your site

Microsoft Preview crawls websites to generate link previews and thumbnails for shared URLs. It is operated by Microsoft as part of their link preview infrastructure. If you see this bot in your server logs, it is a verified crawler and generally safe.

Block or allow Microsoft Preview

Block it

Add a Disallow rule for MicrosoftPreview/ in your robots.txt file. You can also block at the server level using your web server configuration or CDN firewall rules to filter requests matching the user-agent string.

# Block Microsoft Preview from crawling your entire site
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview/
Disallow: /

# Allow Microsoft Preview full access
User-agent: MicrosoftPreview/
Allow: /

Allow & verify

Ensure your robots.txt allows MicrosoftPreview/. Verify requests are genuine by checking the user-agent string and referring to Microsoft's documentation.