Microsoft Delve Replacement: What Replaced Delve, and What Did Not
Microsoft retired Delve in December 2024 and did not replace it with one product. Here is where each feature went, what was lost, and when a Delve alternative is worth paying for.
Microsoft retired Delve on December 16, 2024 and did not replace it with a single product.
It replaced Delve with six places to look. For some companies that is enough. This page sets out where each feature went, what Microsoft dropped, and when a separate Delve alternative is worth paying for.
What replaced each Delve feature
This table follows Microsoft's support article, Alternatives to Delve in Microsoft 365.
| In Delve | Where it is now |
|---|---|
| Recommended documents on the home page | The Office home page, the Office web apps, and For you in OneDrive |
| Searching for people and their documents | Microsoft Search in Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, and the files section of profile cards |
| A colleague's profile page | Profile cards |
| Editing your own profile | The profile editor, opened from your profile card |
| Organizational view | Profile cards and Org Explorer |
| Favorite documents and boards | Dropped. Microsoft points to favorites in OneDrive and Office.com instead |
| Recently viewed people | Dropped |
Delve never stored documents or profile data, so Microsoft deleted none of that.
When Microsoft's replacement is enough
If your people used Delve to update a bio, check a colleague's phone number, or find a file someone shared, the built-in tools cover it and cost nothing extra. Do not buy anything.
Our guide to editing your Microsoft 365 profile now that Delve is gone has the steps for the new editor.
Where it stops
We tried the profile editor when Microsoft released it in December 2024. It opens in a panel over the profile card, where Delve sent you to a separate page. Microsoft's admin guidance confirms the scope: you can edit the properties Delve let you edit, and no others.
Three gaps show up once a company relies on it:
- You still have no directory. Delve was never an employee directory, and neither are profile cards. You can look up a person whose name you know. You cannot browse everyone in the Denver office.
- The editor skips some fields. Microsoft lists 13 Entra ID properties, including Title, Department and Manager, that the new editor does not support. Custom profile properties send users to the SharePoint edit page.
- The pieces live in different apps. Search is in one place, the editor in another, the org view in a third.
What a dedicated directory adds
OneDirectory is employee directory software that reads your Entra ID data on every sync and puts it in one place.
- One profile per person, with contact details, manager, direct reports and skills. See employee profiles.
- Search across the whole company, then group results by office, department or manager. See people search.
- An org chart view built from the manager field, with no redrawing.
- Field-level control. Admins choose, field by field, whether the data comes from Microsoft 365 or gets edited in OneDirectory, and whether employees can edit it on their own profile.
It runs in a browser, and you can open it inside Microsoft Teams.
The two systems work together. In September 2026 an IT service manager at one customer, a commercial real estate firm, emailed our support desk. His team had updated Hobbies and Interests on several people's Microsoft 365 profiles, and he asked us to run a sync so the changes would reach the directory. The edits start in Microsoft's profile editor. The directory is where everyone else finds them.
Employees use search and profiles in volume. Across 65 customer organizations, 16,267 employees viewed search results 514,602 times and opened 395,450 profiles in the 90 days to August 14, 2026.
Those counts cover active employees only, and they come from our product usage study.
What OneDirectory does not replace
OneDirectory has nothing to do with files. It does not recommend documents, store favorites or rebuild Delve boards. For those, use Microsoft's list above.
It is also a paid product. We band pricing by company size, and the pricing page shows the current bands.
How to try it
The 14-day trial opens a sample company, so you can test search, profiles and the org chart view without connecting your own Microsoft 365 data or involving an admin.
Frequently asked questions
Is Microsoft Delve still available?
No. Microsoft retired Delve in December 2024. It is no longer part of Microsoft 365 and is no longer supported.
What replaced Microsoft Delve?
No single product. Microsoft moved Delve's features to profile cards, the profile editor, Microsoft Search, the Office home page, OneDrive and Copilot.
Where do I edit my Microsoft 365 profile now?
In the profile editor, which opens from your profile card in Microsoft 365. Fields managed by your organization, such as name and job title, still need your IT team.
Did I lose my Delve data?
Documents and profile data were not stored in Delve and were not deleted. Lists of favorite documents, favorite boards and recently viewed people were lost unless you exported them before December 16, 2024.
Is there an alternative to Delve?
For editing a profile and looking up one colleague, Microsoft 365's built-in profile cards are the alternative. For a searchable company-wide directory with profiles and reporting lines, employee directory software such as OneDirectory fills the gap.
