The Employee Directory web part is a powerful tool that helps to improve organizational communication and collaboration in SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams. It provides a comprehensive and easy-to-use directory of all employees, allowing users to quickly find and contact colleagues.

  • Microsoft Teams Integration
  • User Presence
  • Single Part App Pages
  • Supporting Dark Mode
  • Search People within User Profiles
  • Search People in Azure AD

$49/month

Employee Directory Web Part
Employee Directory Web Part

Overview

The Employee Directory web part turns SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams into a single, searchable hub where people can find the right colleague in seconds - by name, department, job title, skills, or any custom attribute your organization uses.

Built on the SharePoint Framework and the Microsoft Graph API, it pulls live people data straight from Microsoft Entra ID and User Profiles, shows real-time Teams presence, and adapts to your branding and theme automatically. There is no separate HR database to maintain, no manual updates, and no data ever leaves your Microsoft 365 tenant.

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.

That means employees can find the right expert for a project - not just someone with a matching name. You can also exclude disabled or unlicensed accounts, so search results only ever show active people.

Vitextra Employee Directory Data Sources

Narrow Results with the Refinement Panel

The refinement panel lets users filter search results by the attributes that matter - department, office location, job title, or any custom User Profile property. Powered by the SharePoint Search Service, it turns a long list of people into a focused shortlist in a couple of clicks.

Administrators stay in control: choose which fields appear, how many matches are shown for each value, how results are sorted, and whether the panel sits on the left, right, or top of the web part.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Refinement Panel

Precise Entra ID Search with the Query Builder

For organizations that work directly from Microsoft Entra ID, a dedicated Employee Directory (Entra ID) web part delivers full-tenant search with fine-grained control. Its visual Query Builder lets administrators construct precise queries - filtering by any attribute, including custom ones - without writing a single line of query language.

Define predefined filters that always apply, choose exactly which fields are searchable, hide unlicensed users, and let people jump straight to a surname with automatic alphabetical (A-Z) navigation.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Entra ID Query Builder

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, so the directory stays readable on any screen without horizontal scrolling.

The Cards view displays each employee as a modern, visual card, giving you a graphical and simplified interface that makes it easy to browse profiles quickly. Whichever layout you choose, the Employee Directory lets you decide which employee attributes are shown.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Details and Cards View

Rich Profiles at a Glance

Selecting anyone in the directory opens a detailed profile panel with their contact information, job role, and place in the organizational hierarchy. It also surfaces the documents they have recently worked on and their availability for the current day - so you get real context, not just a phone number, before you reach out.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Details Pane

Real-Time Presence Status

See who's available before you interrupt them. The Employee Directory shows each colleague's live Microsoft Teams presence - available, busy, in a meeting, or offline - drawn in real time from Microsoft 365 and other Microsoft 365 services.

It's a small detail that makes a real difference: people reach out at the right moment, meetings get scheduled around genuine availability, and unnecessary interruptions drop. This is especially valuable for coordinating distributed and hybrid teams.

Vitextra Employee Directory. User Presence

Works Right Inside Microsoft Teams

Add the Employee Directory as a tab 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.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Integrating with Microsoft Teams

Welcome New Hires with the New Employees Web Part

Help your organization keep pace with a growing team. The New Employees web part automatically highlights people recently added to Microsoft Entra ID - with no manual list to maintain.

Choose how many new joiners to feature and how long they stay visible, then place the web part on your intranet homepage to give newcomers a warm, visible welcome and speed up onboarding.

Vitextra Employee Directory. New Employees Web Part

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.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Export to Excel

Secure by Design

The Employee Directory is built on the SharePoint Framework and the Microsoft Graph API, so it runs entirely within your Microsoft 365 tenant under each user's own account. It can never surface more than a user is already permitted to see in Microsoft Entra ID, and it only ever reads data - it never modifies it.

There are no external servers and no third-party data storage: your people's information stays in your tenant, where it belongs.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Secure by Design

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.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Appearance Settings

Adapts to Your Theme

The web part inherits your SharePoint site's theme automatically - light, dark, or fully custom - and even respects the color variant applied to an individual page section.

By integrating with SharePoint's theming capabilities, the Employee Directory maintains visual harmony with the surrounding page and reinforces a cohesive, recognizable identity for your organization, with no extra configuration required.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Theme Variants

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.

Vitextra Employee Directory. Dark Mode

Knowledge Base


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Customer Questions

Some common questions about Employee Directory

How can I switch Employee Directory Web Part to Dark Mode?

There is no a Dark/Light option in Employee Directory. The Web Part inherits the color theme from the site where it's presented.


Does Employee Directory support SharePoint 2016 or 2019?

No. Employee Directory can not be installed on SharePoint on-premise version. SharePoint Online and Microsoft Teams are supported for the installation of the web part.


Can I use custom Data Source for Employee Directory such as List or SQL Server database?

No. You are able to choose the data source between Azure AD and User Profiles.


Can I expand Employee Directory to fill the entire page?

Yes. Employee Directory can be hosted on a Single App Page. Follow this knowledge base article: Create Single Part App Page for Employee Directory.


Is it possible to display custom attributes?

Yes. You can use custom attributes for both data sources User Profiles and Azure AD. See Adding Custom Attributes to the Employee Details Pane article for more information.


How can I update attributes for each individual employee/user?

The Employee Directory does not support update user attributes. The app only shows data from User Profiles or Azure AD.
To edit user attributes we provide another solution for SharePoint Online - Employee Details.


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Reviews

Kris Horner

Great add-in for SharePoint

Thanks for your work! We'd like to have a one-time purchase option instead of a subscription.

Antônio

very good solution

it's a very good solution for our company

Supported Languages

Supported languages

العربية (البحرين)
العربية (مصر)
العربية (الكويت)
العربية (عمان)
العربية (قطر)
العربية (المملكة العربية السعودية)
العربية (الإمارات العربية المتحدة)
euskara (euskara)
български (България)
中文(中国)
中文(简体)
hrvatski (Hrvatska)
čeština (Česko)
dansk (Danmark)
Nederlands (Nederland)
English
English (United Kingdom)
eesti (Eesti)
suomi (Suomi)
français (France)
galego (galego)
Deutsch
Ελληνικά (Ελλάδα)
עברית (ישראל)
हिन्दी (भारत)
magyar (Magyarország)
Indonesia (Indonesia)
Gaeilge (Éire)
italiano (Italia)
日本語 (日本)
қазақ тілі (Қазақстан)
한국어(대한민국)
latviešu (Latvija)
lietuvių (Lietuva)
македонски (Северна Македонија)
Melayu (Malaysia)
norsk bokmål (Norge)
polski (Polska)
português (Brasil)
português (Portugal)
română (România)
русский
srpski (Srbija)
slovenčina (Slovensko)
slovenščina (Slovenija)
español (España, alfabetización internacional)
svenska (Sverige)
ไทย (ไทย)
Türkçe (Türkiye)
українська (Україна)
Tiếng Việt (Việt Nam)
Cymraeg (Y Deyrnas Unedig)

Platforms

Supported platforms

SharePoint Online
Microsoft Teams

Recent Changes

3/19/2025

🚀 New Features:
Added fields for "about me," skills, interests, and responsibilities to provide a more comprehensive view of employee profiles.


2/19/2025

Performance improvements, reducing initial loading times


1/22/2025

🌐 Added Support for Multiple Languages:

  • Arabic (Bahrain)
  • Arabic (Egypt)
  • Arabic (Kuwait)
  • Arabic (Oman)
  • Arabic (Qatar)

🚀 New Features:

Auto-Update Feature: Cached data now refreshes automatically every 24 hours, ensuring you always have the most up-to-date information.


12/9/2024

🐞 Fixed Bugs:

  • Presence status not showing in the Cards view in case of the user does not have profile picture

11/28/2024

🌐 Localization Improvements:

  • Enhanced language support for French, German, and Spanish.
  • Corrected translation errors in the Russian and Japanese interfaces.

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