What is new in DirectoryPoint

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DirectoryPoint 1.0.0

The first release of the people-and-agents directory for SharePoint, Microsoft Teams and Viva Connections.

Find

• Instant search that forgives typos, knows nicknames and searches email and phone numbers; phrases become filters; Ctrl+K and "/"
• Other names people add ("also known as", such as a previous surname) and languages are searchable
• Grid, list and card layouts with A to Z, filters, and extra fields an admin maps
• External contacts (contractors, suppliers and partners) beside your staff with an External badge, for the audience a site owner chooses

Profiles

• Bento profiles with Teams chat and call, email, skills, "Ask me about", manager and team
• About you: how to say your name, with an optional short recording ("Say my name"), pronouns as you type them, how you like to work and your languages
• Accepted kudos under the skill they were given for

Getting to know colleagues

• The private Discover decks: save, skip and open by swipe, button or key, with undo; decks of new joiners, your department or office, a skill, everyone, the people you'll work with, the same skills as you, new in your office, a language and an "Ask me about" topic
• Who's Who: a quiz with clues from the directory, scoring that rewards knowing over guessing, and an opt-in scoreboard you can leave at any time
• Kudos for a skill, sealed for the two people until accepted, with no notifications, counts or rankings
• Office and department pages, with an office's local time from the time zone site owners set
• Celebrations: new joiners, plus opt-in birthdays and anniversaries with the day and month only

Favourites and collections

• Favourites grouped by skill, "my go-to for" pins and private collections; a skills list with synonyms and levels
• Smart collections that list whoever meets saved conditions
• Shared collections for named colleagues, with nobody notified and the copies readable by anyone who can open the site (said in the app)

Agents and the org chart

• Agents beside people: a curated agents list, CSV import, tasks shared with skills, stored launch links and "may need a licence"
• A shared agents registry on another site of the same SharePoint host
• A focused org chart with every direct report and an accessible tree view

Data you can check

• Data health for site owners: profiles missing a photo, manager, job title, department or phone, circular manager chains and duplicate names, and a checklist for each person's own profile
• Change requests: people suggest corrections, site owners approve them for IT with every decision audited; DirectoryPoint never changes your directory

Large organisations

• Chosen by size: live up to about 2,000 people, a copy on each device from 2,000 to 30,000 on the Standard tier, and a snapshot a site owner publishes at any size
• Search-first mode for organisations that hide people from the address list or use information barriers

Site owners

• Settings: who is listed, field mapping, privacy defaults, an audited export, office time zones and Who's Who switches; a trust pack for your data protection review
• Daily usage totals with no names, IDs or search words, on by default, with a switch to turn counting off

Where it runs

• A SharePoint web part, a SharePoint full-page app, a Microsoft Teams tab and a Microsoft Teams personal app; light, dark and high contrast themes
• Four Viva Connections dashboard cards: Find someone, Your favourites, New joiners and Celebrations today

Permissions and licence

• Works with no Microsoft Graph permission (Basic); read-only User.Read.All for Standard; optional Presence.Read.All and People.Read
• A 14-day evaluation of every feature from set-up, with no key

October to November 2026

Preview builds 0.1

Tested on our own Microsoft 365 test site with a few real accounts and a built-in directory of about 2,000 fictional people, plus synthetic directories of up to 100,000 people for speed and scale checks.

3 November 2026

directorypoint.app 0.2.2

Every page brought up to DirectoryPoint 1.0: the features added since the first preview, the Viva Connections cards, every DirectoryPoint list and who can read it, the copies kept on each device, kudos sealing, name recordings and usage counts on the security page, and the listing name DirectoryPoint - Employee Directory. Screenshots of DirectoryPoint 1.0 with fictional people from its Demo directory, and the full accessibility statement.

1 November 2026

directorypoint.app 0.1

The first version of this website: features, agents, permissions, pricing, getting started, support, security, privacy, terms and accessibility.