The Microsoft 365 People contacts nobody wants to work through
Microsoft 365 People exposes 3 operations and a companion can work all of them: update a contact, create a contact and create a contact folder. Anything that changes a record waits for your click.
Open the contact. Check it against something else. Write the change. Move to the next one. That is the Microsoft 365 People afternoon nobody can hand off, and a companion does the whole pass and gives you back the batch, with nothing landing on a contact until you approve it.
What it can do is exactly what Microsoft 365 People exposes to an account you authorise and nothing beyond it: 3 operations, no reads and 3 writes. In practice that means it can update a contact, create a contact and create a contact folder, and work across the contacts and contact folders.
The Microsoft 365 People API stops at Microsoft 365 People. A companion does not. The same run opens the customer's website, the supplier portal, the internal tool somebody built in 2019, because it is working the browser you are already signed into rather than calling in from outside it.
Does it read the contacts or ask you for them?
In the tab.
Microsoft 365 People exposes no read operation to a connected account, so a companion opens Microsoft 365 People in the session you are already signed into and reads the screens you would.
The contacts are what most of this inventory is about, alongside the contact folders. A companion can hold all 3 of these operations and forty open tabs in the same pass, which is how an afternoon of Microsoft 365 People admin becomes a queue you review.
What happens before it can update contact?
All 3 write operations wait for you.
A companion can update a contact, create a contact and create a contact folder, and each one is staged on an approval card first: you see the contact, the field and the new value before it lands in Microsoft 365 People.
Nothing in Microsoft 365 People is sent, changed or deleted on your behalf without that click, and a rejected card leaves the contact exactly as it was. The gate is the same one on every surface, described at security.
- Update Contact
- Create Contact
- Create Contact Folder
Does the contact sweep have to be asked for every time?
Yes.
Saved as a routine, the Microsoft 365 People contacts pass runs at the hour you pick: the Monday sweep, the overnight refresh, the Friday check. Keep Awake holds the machine awake for the length of a run, so a scheduled pass finishes with the lid closed.
The operations playbook catalogues the other recurring shapes of the planning, the Microsoft 365 People contacts sweep among them, and finished runs are published at real runs.
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