OneDirectory August Updates

This Month at OneDirectory: New People Section, Seven New G2 Badges + Proof Your Directory Data Can Improve 📊

People: A New Way to Manage Everyone in Your Directory 👥

People is a new section in the Directory Console that puts every profile in your directory, employees, guests, and service accounts, into one list you can search, sort, and edit.

What's inside:

• 🗂️ Separate tabs for employees, guests, and service accounts, each with live counts
• 🔍 Search by name, then filter and sort by job title, office, department, or custom fields
• 👤 A side panel that shows the full profile next to the list, grouped into sections like Identity and Job Information
• ✏️ Edit any field in place, with photo uploads, date pickers, and smart selectors for managers, countries, and departments
• ⚡ Quick actions to open a profile in the directory, copy its link, view the org chart, or jump straight to Microsoft Entra

The people section is now live for admins and directory editors.

Edit Mode Retires: Editing Now Lives in the Console 🛠️

We've retired the old Edit Mode toggle. All directory editing now happens in the Directory Console, in a purpose-built interface with the people list, side panels, and inline field editing.

Where you used to switch on Edit Mode, you'll now see an Edit in Console button that opens the Console at whatever you were viewing.

This only changes things for admins and directory editors. Nothing changes for everyone else, and employees can still update their own profiles if you have that enabled.

It's part of a bigger shift: the Directory Console is becoming the single place for all directory administration. There's more in there already, and we'll cover it in upcoming updates.

OneDirectory Earns Seven G2 Badges in Fall 2026 🏆

OneDirectory earned seven badges in G2's Fall 2026 Org Chart Software reports:

🏅 High Performer
🏅 High Performer (Mid-Market)
🏅 Easiest To Use
🏅 Easiest To Use (Mid-Market)
🏅 Easiest To Do Business With
🏅 Easiest To Do Business With (Mid-Market)
🏅 Fastest Implementation (Mid-Market)

All based on verified customer reviews, with an average rating of 4.9 out of 5. That makes three consecutive quarters of G2 recognition in 2026.

Thank you to every customer who took the time to leave a review.

👉 Read the full announcement: https://www.onedirectory.com/blog/onedirectory-g2-badges-fall-2026/

The Employee Directory Data Problem Is Fixable 📈

In April we published data showing that at first Microsoft 365 sync, the average employee profile is 30.8% complete and only 42% of employees have a manager recorded.

In August we measured the same 65 tenants again, after each organization had spent time running OneDirectory and working on its profile data. The numbers moved:

• 📊 Average profile completeness rose from 30.8% to 44.1%
• 🧭 Manager coverage rose from 42% to 79% of employees, the largest movement of any field we measure
• ✅ Organizations meeting our directory-ready threshold rose from 33% to 61%, close to double

The pattern is worth looking at: incomplete employee data is not a permanent condition of working in Microsoft 365.

👉 Read the full article: https://www.onedirectory.com/blog/employee-directory-data-problem-is-fixable/

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