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Lawrence Cawood

Founder and CEO at OneDirectory.

Lawrence founded the company as Vinewave in 2011 and built the original SharePoint staff directory product himself; it became OneDirectory in 2018. He wrote about the founding decision that shaped the business, selling globally from day one, in this essay.

OneDirectory is ranked #1 for Mid-Market Usability in G2's Org Chart reports. Reviews on G2.

OneDirectory Updates (Sep 2020)

We fixed a bunch of OneDirectory bugs and made some small updates to the employee directory interface: * Hide "Default" office and department from left navigation, and from the offices and departments listing pages. The "Default" office or department is where we allocate user accounts that don&

SharePoint Vitals Updates (Aug 2020)

Here's what we released and fixed in August 2020 for SharePoint Vitals: * Changed all references of our old Vitals domain to the new domain * Upgraded the Power BI connector endpoints to cater for the domain name change * Fixed problems with some locations not having details * Trimmed blank characters

OneDirectory Map

OneDirectory Addresses and Maps

Here's two new location-related features in OneDirectory: Addresses on profiles 📍 Employee profiles now show the employee's address, pulled from their Office 365 user profile information, and also shows a map. Clicking on the map opens a fully browsable map view of that location, right in

OneDirectory List View

List View Improvements

There's a few small improvements to the OneDirectory list view, including tooltips on email and contact numbers, reordered columns, improved column widths, and better text wrapping. And if you have custom fields enabled you'll see them displayed in your list views. Previously, custom fields were only

Minor UI Updates and Fixes (July 2020)

We released a few small user interface updates to OneDirectory: * Improved address formatting throughout the app * Added City field to Address section on Profile Insights * Clicking the office address on an Office homepage will show the full map view * Profiles now show an avatar instead of the "generic person&

Employee profiles

New OneDirectory Employee Profiles

Say hello to the new OneDirectory profile, a way for your teams to easily visualize the Microsoft 365 user profiles of their coworkers. What's in the new OneDirectory profile? * Improved profile layout to take advantage of more screen real estate * Improved scrolling behavior * Improved display of office/department

Microsoft Teams

Chat in Microsoft Teams

Hey, guess what? You can now start a Microsoft Teams chat right from someone's profile in OneDirectory. No more flipping between apps or digging through Teams to find the person you want to talk to. Just find their OneDirectory profile, click to chat, and you're set