Improved People Skills Admin configuration

Three new admin features for managing People Skills in Microsoft 365 include turning off user experiences, configuring settings via the Admin Center without PowerShell, and importing custom skills libraries from local devices. These enhance privacy, deployment flexibility, and ease of management, rolling out worldwide by mid-December 2025. We are introducing three new ways to simplify how Admins manage People Skills: Admin control: Turn off People Skills user experiences View image in new tab Feature access management: Configure People Skills settings in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center View image in new tab Ability to import custom skills library: Upload from your local device View image in new tab This message is associated with Roadmap ID 529865. When this will happen: General Availability (Worldwide): We will begin rolling out mid-December 2025 and expect to complete by mid-December 2025. How this will affect your organization: Who is affected: Admins managing People Skills in Microsoft 365. What will happen: Admin control to turn off People Skills user experiences:  As an Admin, you can use the Turn off People Skills user experiences control to manage how People Skills appears across your organization. This control lets you: Disable People Skills user experiences for your entire organization, user group subsets, or individual users. Pilot People Skills to a small group of users in your organization before rolling it out broadly. When People Skills is turned off for a user, all People Skills user experiences will be removed for that user. Refer to Where does People Skills data appear? for a list of applications that use People Skills data and will be impacted by this Admin Control. Why use this new admin control? Privacy and compliance: Organizations in regulated industries or Workers Council regions may need to prevent skills data from appearing on user profiles for certain users or groups. Such organizations may use this new Admin Control to turn off People Skills for a specific geographic region (e.g., Germany) who may have Workers Council requirements to limit exposure of People Skills data for impacted users. Pilot control: Deploy People Skills to a limited audience scope before full […]

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