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Why Doesn't a New Hire Appear in the New Employees Web Part?

A diagnostic checklist for a new employee who is missing from the Vitextra New Employees web part: account creation date in Microsoft Entra ID instead of hire date, guest accounts, the look-back period and the number of people shown, the filter and the default Account Status condition, reused accounts, very large tenants, Microsoft Graph permissions and license messages.

11/6/2026 Līga Ozola 5

Employee Directory vs. Organizational Chart vs. Employee Details: Which Vitextra People Product to Choose

Compare the three Vitextra people products for SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams - Employee Directory (find people), Organizational Chart (see the structure) and Employee Details (one person in depth, with self-service profile editing) - by data source, layouts, search and filters, editing, Teams support and typical page, and learn how they work together and what they add to the built-in Microsoft 365 tools.

11/4/2026 Līga Ozola 34

Microsoft Graph Permissions Required by Employee Directory

Which Microsoft Graph permissions the Vitextra Employee Directory solution requests - Directory.Read.All, User.Read.All, Presence.Read.All, Calendars.Read and People.Read - what each one is used for, which web parts need it, what users see when it is not approved, and how to approve and check the permissions in the SharePoint admin center.

11/4/2026 Līga Ozola 24

Preparing Microsoft Entra ID and User Profile Data for Employee Directory

Which Microsoft Entra ID attributes and SharePoint user profile properties drive each feature of the Vitextra Employee Directory - names and A–Z navigation, department and quick filters, manager and direct reports, photos, skills, licenses, account status, creation date and working hours - where to edit them, how long changes take to appear, and a checklist before go-live.

11/4/2026 Līga Ozola 30

Employee Directory (Entra ID): Filter Editor Reference

Reference for the filter editor of the Vitextra Employee Directory (Entra ID) and New Employees web parts: available fields, operators, value types, groups and AND/OR logic, user roles, how the filter relates to Microsoft Graph, limitations and ready-to-use examples.

10/18/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 113

Employee Directory vs. Employee Directory (Entra ID): Which Web Part to Choose

Compare the two Vitextra directory web parts - Employee Directory (SharePoint search or Microsoft Graph) and Employee Directory (Entra ID) - by data source, search, refinement panel, filter editor, exclusions, A–Z navigation, skills search and export, and find out which one fits your scenario.

10/18/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 107

Employee Directory: Local Time, Working Hours and Availability

Learn how the Vitextra Employee Directory details pane shows a colleague's local time, time difference, working hours and today's free/busy schedule next to your own, where the data comes from, which Microsoft Graph permissions it needs and how administrators turn it on or off.

10/18/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 112

How to Add and Configure the Employee Directory Web Part

Step-by-step guide to adding the Vitextra Employee Directory web part to a SharePoint Online page and configuring its main settings: the data source (User Profiles or Microsoft Entra ID), columns, sorting, page size, search box and totals, plus an overview of every other property pane group.

10/18/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 90

How to Set Up the Refinement Panel in Employee Directory

Step-by-step guide to enabling and configuring the refinement panel in the Vitextra Employee Directory web parts: supported data sources, panel position, refiner settings, refinable managed properties for custom profile properties, and how employees use refiners together with search and quick filters.

10/18/2026 Vitālijs Kalniņš 94