(WIP) SharePoint User Profiles Metadata Users of Microsoft 365 can go to “My Microsoft 365 profile”: and update profile providing some details like birthday, home/mobile phone, summary, education, hobbies, skills and projects. Some properties are text fields, some are metadata. Specifically – projects, “skills and expertise”, “schools and education” and “Interests and hobbies” are backed […]
Published: May 1, 2022Update from Mar 5, 2023: Microsoft confirmed this as valid solution.Update from May 20, 2024: still trueUpdate from June 12, 2024: I have just found “ABP in Exchange Online“… Looking into it… Scenario You want specific users do not appear in Microsoft 365 SharePoint, Teams or Outlook search results. For instance, when […]
UPDATE: this approach only works if the mobile number is stored in SPO UPA.If the mobile number is stored in AAD only, the admin will need to remove the mobile number from AAD for the affected users. UPDATE 2: In December 2024, Delve will be retired. Scenario: you administer SharePoint Online Microsoft 365 tenantbusiness asks […]
Scenario Consider the following: What is Microsoft saying “The following Azure AD user attributes are synced to the UPA.” :(Azure AD attributes) – UserPrincipalName, DisplayName, GivenName, sn, telephoneNumber, proxyAddresses, PhysicalDeliveryOfficeName, Title, Department, WWWHomePage, PreferredLanguage, msExchHideFromAddressList, ManagerRespective User profile property display names: Account Name, User Name, User Principal Name, Name, FirstName, LastName, Work phone, Work Email, […]
Update: for the same solution in modern search – please refer to “Hide non-personal accounts from modern Microsoft 365 search” The following solution is for Classic Search only. What I did is: User profile services -> Manage User properties: create custom property like “HideFromPeopleSearch”, boolean, do not allow users to edit value, Indexed Client-side PowerShell […]