Employee Directory

Find the Right Person, Not Just a Name

With the Vitextra Employee Directory, people search goes far beyond name, email, and job title. Query your organization's User Profiles and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) to find colleagues by skills, interests, office location, department, or any custom attribute you choose to expose.

A dedicated skills search answers questions like "who knows Power BI?" or "who speaks Spanish?" - matched skills are highlighted and shown first, so the right expert stands out at a glance. Soft search keeps results useful even when a query is imprecise, and you can exclude disabled or unlicensed accounts so search results only ever show active people.

Quick Filters and Favorites

One click above the list narrows the directory without typing a query. My department shows the people from your own department, My team brings up your manager and teammates, and People I work with uses Microsoft Graph to surface the colleagues you actually interact with most.

Mark the people you contact frequently as favorites: your list is personal, persists between sessions, and is always one click away through the Favorites quick filter.

Two Layouts: Details and Cards

Choose the layout that fits how your team works. The Details view presents results in a clean, tabular format with columns you can reorder to surface the information that matters most - ideal for a structured, at-a-glance overview. Columns collapse automatically when space runs low, and a compact mode keeps the table dense, so the directory stays readable on any screen without horizontal scrolling.

The Cards view displays each employee as a modern, visual card. Pick a card size from compact to extended - the number of fields shown on each card adapts to the size - and decide which employee attributes appear in every position. Cards can also be grouped by any field, such as department or the first letter of the last name, turning a flat list into a browsable structure.

Reach Out in One Click

Once you have found the right person, acting takes a single click. Quick actions on each card and in the context menu let you start a Teams chat (Chat), place a call (Call), write an email (Email), copy the address (Copy email), book a meeting (Schedule a meeting), or save the contact as a vCard file (Download).

Each action can be enabled or disabled independently, so the directory offers exactly the communication channels your organization uses.

Works Right Inside Microsoft Teams

Add the Employee Directory as a tab or a personal app in Microsoft Teams and your people can search for colleagues without leaving the conversation. No switching apps, no breaking focus - which keeps everyone productive.

Because the web part is fully responsive, the same directory works just as well on mobile. Finding a contact is as easy from a phone between meetings as it is at a desk.

Export to Excel in One Click

Need the data outside SharePoint? Export the current search results - filters and all - to an Excel spreadsheet in a single click. It's ideal for reporting, building distribution lists, or sharing a departmental roster with someone who doesn't have access to the site.

Need a single contact instead? Save any employee as a vCard (.vcf) file and add them straight to your address book.

On-Brand with SharePoint Brand Center

The Employee Directory web part fully supports the SharePoint Brand Center, so the directory carries your organization's logos, colors, and typography out of the box.

The result is a consistent, professional look that fits naturally alongside the rest of your SharePoint sites, strengthening your brand identity across the digital workspace.

Built-in Dark Mode

Dark mode is supported across SharePoint Modern Pages and Microsoft Teams. The web part detects its environment and switches automatically - applying your current theme settings on a SharePoint Modern Page and matching the selected mode in Teams - so it always looks right, wherever it's used.