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Joni_McGlade
Copper Contributor
Jan 06, 2021

Outlook: Disable 'also works with' on people card

Hi,

 

Does anyone know if it's possible to disable the 'also works with' item on the people card? Some of the users are asking this due to privacy concerns. I'm assuming it's linked to Delve, so do we need to disable Delve entirely for this?

 

We've users on Windows & Mac.

 

Thanks,
Joni.

2 Replies

  • Ress's avatar
    Ress
    Copper Contributor

    In case if someone is still looking out for this, here is how you can go about this.
    For disabling this only on Outlook Desktop Client you can push the below registry via GPO.( Some organizations do keep web apps disabled)
    https://admx.help/?Category=Office2016&Policy=office16.Office.Microsoft.Policies.Windows::L_RemoveOrganizationTab

     

    However, this above would not meet the privacy concern as the information will still be visible to users on Outlook on the web and Delve. To completely disable the feature you can refer to the below.

    Microsoft has now enabled the feature to be disabled by tenant admins:
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/insights-customize-people-insights-privacy
    https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/insightssettings-update?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=powershell
    Note: Several other features might have dependecies on the 'Works with' feature and disabling this feature would also disable other dependencies, please refer the above articles for more information. 

    Note: These cmdlets will disable the feature for entire tenant. In case if you want to disable the feature only for a group of users you can use the cmdlets listed in https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/insightssettings-update?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=http.

     
    Install-Module Microsoft.Graph
    Connect-MgGraph -Scopes "User.Read.All","User.ReadWrite.All","User.ReadWrite"
    Select-MgProfile -Name "beta"
    Import-Module Microsoft.Graph.Identity.DirectoryManagement
    Get-MgOrganizationSettingItemInsight #to check for exisiting values
    Update-MgOrganizationSettingItemInsight -OrganizationId "Tenant GUID" -IsEnabledInOrganization:$false
    Get-MgOrganizationSettingItemInsight #to validate the change was successful.
     
    If not aware, you can find the TenantGUID using the below:
    Get-AzureADTenantDetail 
    The ObjectID is the tenant guid.

    If you find  IsEnabledInOrganization set to False, wait for 24 hours and check for the change.
  • rgwinn's avatar
    rgwinn
    Brass Contributor
    We would also like to know if there is a way to do this as our company has requested we disable this property on the people card or they may force us not to use the People web part.