Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 - Attribute reference

The following table provides more details about the Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 attributes.

Note

Be aware that Microsoft_LevelDesignation and Microsoft_Layer attributes don't have corresponding properties in Microsoft Entra. Because of this, the only way to add these values to a Microsoft 365 User Profile is by using the Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 feature.

# Attribute Description Data type Example
1 Microsoft_PersonEmail Unique identifier for the employee record - an employee's email address. Email person.name@xyz.com
2 Microsoft_ManagerEmail Unique identifier for an employee’s manager - the employee's manager’s email address. Email manager.name@xyz.com
3 Microsoft_Organization The internal organization or department name that an employee belongs to. String Financial Planning and Analysis
4 Microsoft_LevelDesignation Level that represents an employee's experience, management level, or seniority within the organization. This is whatever public level designation your company uses. String Director
5 Microsoft_JobDiscipline The discipline that an employee belongs to. For more actionable insights, avoid using too few or too many unique Job disciplines. This is the public job discipline. String Finance management
6 Microsoft_Layer An employee's position within the organizational hierarchy, expressed as their distance from the top leader of the organization. For example, the CEO is at Layer 0. Avoid using too few or too many unique layers. This is the layer that is publicly available in your company. Integer 2
7 Microsoft_FirstName First name of the end user. String Alexa
8 Microsoft_LastName Last name of the end user. String Smith
9 Microsoft_DisplayName Preferred name of employee to display. This is the public display name an employee chooses to list. String Alexa Smith
10 Microsoft_JobTitle The public facing job title of the employee. String Software engineer
11 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeLocation An employee’s company office location. This is a location code, like a building number, floor, or room. This shouldn't be an employee's home office or personal address. String 2N
12 Microsoft_CompanyPostOfficeBox The post office box number. This is the publicly available company office box number. String PO Box 12
13 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeStreet The street. This is the publicly available company office street address. String NE 12th Street
14 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeCity The city of the company office the user is associated with. This is the publicly available office address city. String Redmond
15 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeState The state. This is the publicly available company office state. String Washington
16 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeCountryOrRegion The country or region. It's a free-format string value, for example, "United States". This is the publicly available company office country or region. String United States
17 Microsoft_CompanyOfficePostalCode The publicly available company office postal code. String 98004
18 Microsoft_Company Company name. String Contoso
19 Microsoft_CompanyCode Legal entity number of the company or its subdivision. String A2518
20 Microsoft_SecondaryJobTitle Secondary job title for the employee String Software engineer
21 Microsoft_UserSkillNames Skills the employee has, separated by commas. This value is used for Viva Skills inferencing, so it's important to make sure the field uploaded here is a field that you want to use to generate skills for your users. String Project management, organization

Attribute to property mapping

The following table shows how Organizational Data in Microsoft 365 attributes map to properties in the Microsoft 365 User Profile schema.

# Attribute (column heading) in .csv file Property in Microsoft 365 User Profile schema
1 Microsoft_PersonEmail N/A

The email is converted to the Microsoft Entra objectId of the end user and is used for internal processing.
2 Microsoft_ManagerEmail positions -> manager -> userId

The email is converted to the Microsoft Entra objectId for the manager and is stored in the Microsoft 365 User Profile.
3 Microsoft_Organization positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> department
4 Microsoft_LevelDesignation positions -> positionDetail -> level
5 Microsoft_JobDiscipline positions -> positionDetail -> role
6 Microsoft_Layer positions -> positionDetail -> layer
7 Microsoft_FirstName names -> first
8 Microsoft_LastName names -> last
9 Microsoft_DisplayName names -> displayName
10 Microsoft_JobTitle positions -> positionDetail -> jobTitle
11 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeLocation positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> officeLocation
12 Microsoft_CompanyPostOfficeBox positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> postOfficeBox
13 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeStreet positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> street
14 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeCity positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> city
15 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeState positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> state
16 Microsoft_CompanyOfficeCountryOrRegion positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> countryOrRegion
17 Microsoft_CompanyOfficePostalCode positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> physicalAddress -> postalCode
18 Microsoft_Company positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail -> displayName
19 Microsoft_CompanyCode positions -> positionDetail -> companyDetail ->companyCode
20 Microsoft_SecondaryJobTitle positions -> positionDetail -> secondaryJobTitle