Default visibility of additional profile card properties in Microsoft 365 profile cards

Microsoft 365 will default-display 11 profile card properties (e.g., Division, Role, Employee number) when populated, starting late August 2026. Admins can review and hide properties via Microsoft Graph API before rollout. Visibility remains manageable post-rollout through the admin center. What and Why: To help people discover and understand organizational information more easily, Microsoft is changing the default visibility of 11 existing profile card properties in Microsoft 365 profile cards. Today, these properties can be populated from Microsoft Entra ID and other supported external data sources such as People Graph Connectors and Microsoft 365 Organizational Data, but they are disabled by default and require administrators to manually enable them. You can find more on the existing profile card property management here.  With this update, these properties will be displayed by default when populated with data. This helps organizations surface relevant employee information more consistently while reducing administrative effort for commonly used profile attributes. Organizations retain administrative controls to manage visibility according to their business, privacy, and compliance requirements.  The following properties are included in this update:  Division  Role  Employee number  Employee type  Cost center  User principal name (UPN)  Alias  Fax  Street address  State  Postal code  Rollout Schedule: General Availability (Worldwide, GCC, GCC High, DoD): we will begin rollout in late August 2026 and expect to complete by late August 2026. Impact to your organization: Who is affected  Global Administrators and People Administrators responsible for profile card management.  Organizations with users whose profile data includes one or more of the affected properties.  Platforms/Services  Microsoft 365 Profile Cards  Microsoft Entra ID  Microsoft 365 Organizational Data  Microsoft Entra People Graph Connectors  Microsoft Graph profile card management APIs  Microsoft 365 admin center  What will happen  The 11 listed properties will automatically appear on profile cards when the corresponding attributes contain data.   The change is enabled by default.  Attributes sourced from Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365 Organizational Data, and Microsoft Entra People Graph Connectors follow the same visibility behavior.  No changes are made to underlying attribute values or source systems.  No changes are required from end users.  Tenants that have never configured profile card settings […]

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