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Brass Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

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 ...

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Jon Ostroushko

Brass Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

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.

Dean_Gross

Silver Contributor

Mar 19, 2018

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/