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The blog feature on user profiles is still showing up with Delve disabled
My client has chosen to not use Delve initially, so we have it disabled in their tenant. However, the Blog section that shows up when viewing your own profile page is still appearing. It was my understanding that would go away when Delve was disabled. The concern with having it appear is that employees will start publishing blog posts before the organization is ready for that from a governance and compliance perspective.
Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with this?
--Ryan
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Did you ever figure out a solution for this? I think I might have figured something out but it might require some more testing. Here are the steps I took.
- Went to https://yourtenant.sharepoint.com/portals/hub/AppPages/Forms/allitems.aspx
- Clicked on the ellipse for PointPublishing.aspx
- Clicked Share
- Clicked Shared with
- Clicked Stop Sharing
Now if a user goes to the page that would redirect them (PointPublishing.aspx), it shouldnt work. Granted my first test user didnt even have a link to the blog page from their Delve profile, so I am not sure what would add that in the first place. Maybe they were not fully provisioned. Ill continue testing for now.
Note I am sure this is not supported, and may affect other things so no guarantee.
- Christopher Weaver
Microsoft
Anybody able to chime on supportability?
I understand the reason, and want to make sure you are aware that the blogging component, surfaced on the Delve profile, is tied to the content management service of Office 365, supported by SharePoint Online. If you look at the URL strucuture, you'll notice it falls under a new site collection per user (ex: https://yourCompany.sharepoint.com/portals/hub/personal/yourAlias); meaning, a new internal personal blog post is in fact a SharePoint page (stored within a document library within the site colleciton I noted) that uses the new authoring canvas - same as Team News from within a modern team site. Note: a new blog can appear in the Delve feed alongside other types of content, but it's rooted in the same security and complioance of your customer's SharePoint Online environment.
Much of what is removed when you opt-out of Delve is any component of the service that use the Microsoft Graph - the intelligent layer in between users and the content/data that promote a more persoinalized experienece based on who users work with and what users work on. Once opted out, users will not see the Delve tile in the Office 365 app launcher, and various services that surface aspects of the Microsoft Graph to provide intelligence throughout Office 365 will simply not appear, or revert back to previous non-Graph-based methods - i.e. search-based vs graph-based. One example, if you opt out, you would not see the new "Discover" tab within OneDrive for Business - yet the core of OneDrive for Business remains intact.
Hope that help,
Mark
Thanks for your reply Paul. Do you know if the blog section on the profile is supposed to be hidden when delve/graph is disabled? As you mentioned, the documents section does not appear, but I was under the impression the blog section should also not appear.
I hear ya on the fact that it should be left on for the myriad of additional functionality that the graph brings to O365. However, with the size and complexity of my client, moving to O365 with everything enabled is not sustainable from a governance and compliance perspective. We are moving with a crawl, walk, run approach - starting with SharePoint Online and a brand new intranet for the organization. They will then phase in team sites and all the additional collaboration aspects that O365 has to offer (graph/delve, video, planner, sway, etc.).
--Ryan
We currently have the office graph disabled and the blog is still showing on the profile page. Keen to know if we can remove the blog from the profile it adds no value to us at the moment. Any pointers? Thanks
