Introduction

People insights or the Works with section in the profile card has been around since 2023, essentially, if Christie has a public relationship with Megan and Allan and they communicate with each other, this relationship will be shown in the profile card for these users.

This article does a good job expanding this explanation.

It looks like this

Some companies, don’t want to show this information, and there is an option to disable it, in the UI, we can find it in the Admin Center > Settings > Search & Intelligence > People Insights

You can disable tenant-wide or per group:

It comes by default as enabled, I just took the screenshots when it was already disabled, at least that’s what I thought (more on this later).

You can also enable or disable it using the Graph API, by setting the isEnabledInOrganization property of the insightsSettings resource to false

We can query the current value:

Method: GET

HTTP: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/admin/people/itemInsights

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#admin/people/itemInsights/$entity",
    "isEnabledInOrganization": true,
    "disabledForGroup": null
}

And of course, we can try updating it

Method: PATCH

HTTP: https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/admin/people/itemInsights/organization/{Tenant_ID}/settings/peopleInsights

Request Body: (JSON)

{
  "isEnabledInOrganization": false
}

Result:

{
    "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/beta/$metadata#organization('XXXXX')/settings/peopleInsights/$entity",
    "isEnabledInOrganization": false,
    "disabledForGroup": null
}

The problem

All of this would be useful if it worked, however, setting this option to false does not disable the works with functionality. I’ve been trying to disable this functionality for a customer since 2023 and it just doesn’t work; I tried opening a support case, with no resolution, and I already notified about this to Microsoft, so, decided to write this in case you are also struggling with this, it’s not you, it’s them.

I hope to update this article soon writing this has been fixed.

More information https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/insights-customize-people-insights-privacy.