Your documents must include a field specifying which groups have access. This information becomes the filter criteria against which documents are selected or rejected from the result set returned to the issuer. D: A query request targets the documents collection of a single index on a search service. CF: In order to trim documents based on group_ids access, you should issue a search query with a group_ids /any(g:search.in(g, 'group_id1, group_id2,...')) filter, where 'group_id1, group_id2,...' are the groups to which the search request issuer belongs. Reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search/search-security-trimming-for-azure-search