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Restricting the use of Offensive or Bad words in About Me
So we are looking to expand our usage of Profiles in SharePoint so we can get more information about people in our directory. Our hope is to use the inbuilt features but I am wondering if there is a way to restrict Bad Words/language in the About Me section so that someone doesn't have to police the profiles.
Any else have experience with this?
Also, is there a way to auto remind users to fill in their About Me section if nothing exists?
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um, only thing I can think of is to hire people that don't want to be fired for violating company policies.
Check out https://www.hyperfish.com/ to help keep your profiles up to date.
Haha. Well we do trust our employees, or at least I do.
This is mainly coming from our HR department. In our ancient Employee Directory many years ago we had "Passion Statements" so they basically want to replicate that but wanted to be able to approve the statements. Well being that we have around 800 employees it seems like a lot of work to approve that many About Me statements. So we are trying to be proactive by limiting potential bad things from being entered to provide some piece of mind surrounding what will be in the About Me sections.
I will definitely take a look at Hyperfish, I have looked at it briefly before. Thanks.
you may also want to take a look the capabilities in Yammer to block bad words https://support.office.com/en-us/article/manage-yammer-data-compliance-8c4651fa-12c2-4ced-b4ea-2200c0a630ed and in the Azure AD Group naming policy https://cloudblogs.microsoft.com/enterprisemobility/2018/02/21/azure-ad-naming-policy-for-office-365-groups-is-now-in-public-preview/
