About Microsoft 365 People
Microsoft 365 People is not a standalone product but rather the people and contacts API surface exposed via Microsoft Graph. It allows developers to query a user's Outlook contacts, organization directory, and recent communication partners, returning results ranked by relevance based on collaboration patterns. It supports CRUD operations on personal contacts stored in Exchange Online, change notifications for sync, and schema extensions for custom contact properties.
AI Agent Use Cases
- Retrieve contacts from Outlook personal contact folders in Exchange Online
- People API returns persons ranked by relevance from contacts, directory, and recent communications
- Subscribe to change notifications and track incremental contact changes
- Extend contact data with custom open extensions or schema extensions
- Profile photo support linked to Exchange Online or Entra ID
- Filter, sort, and search persons based on custom criteria
Available Actions
These are the specific actions that AI agents can perform with this tool