Add custom attribute to Profile card

Question

Hi everyone.
I want to add additional information in profile cards using custom attributes from the local AD.
The problem is that the respective information is populated by a 3rd party internal tool and it creates some unique custom attribute (I can change it if needed with an existing one from AD as long as I know that it will sync back in the cloud) . I want to modify the profile cards using those some custom attributes from AD on-premises (so I won't have to edit Custom attributes from online exchange for each user since there are hundreds of them, but to sync them from AD on-premises premises where I already have that info). could someone help me in this regard?
Thank you

Answer 1

@EL

Thank you for reaching out to us. Would like to understand the issue in detail.

Do you have Azure AD Connect setup ? where you can sync custom attributes ?

Reference:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/add-properties-profilecard
https://janbakker.tech/enrich-microsoft-365-profile-card-with-extensions-and-custom-attributes/
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/profile-cards-in-microsoft-365-e80f931f-5fc4-4a59-ba6e-c1e35a85b501

Let me know if you have any questions.

Answer 2

Hi @EL

You can add or delete custom properties from a profile card using this guide:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/add-properties-profilecard

I do hope this answers your question.

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Answer 3

Hi again, as an update, we managed to solve this by extending the AD schema to include a set of attributes and use extensionattribute1 - extensionattribute15 to meet the end goal. (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/hybrid/reference-connect-sync-attributes-synchronized#exchange-online)
Then we updated those attributes in AAD Connect to synchronize them with Exchange Online and we were finally able to see them in Office365.
Thanks all for your suggestions