Delve is a Microsoft Graph-based discovery and collaboration tool. Delve uses signal data gathered from the Microsoft 365 platform to inform its decisions about what content that you already have access to might be interesting or useful to you and then suggests that content to you. When you launch Delve (https://delve.office.com), you'll see your profile page showing people in your organization that you communicate with and the files that you've recently worked on that are stored in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business:
Delve can also be used to view people in your organization and see what they're working on. For example, if someone you frequently email uploads a new document to a SharePoint site that you also have access to, you might see a reference to that document being displayed.
It's important to note that Delve is security-trimmed, meaning it relies on the permissions you already have to documents. Delve will never show you documents that you don't already have access to.
One of the challenges that some organizations encounter when moving to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business is that they don't evaluate or manage their security controls appropriately. Users then discover Delve and it shows them links to files and content that, based on the information they have created or accessed in the past, might be relevant to them—wherever it is stored. If organizations have not been diligent with managing permissions for SharePoint site collections, for example, users may see things that they were not intended to see.
This has led organizations to disable the Office Graph (which can be done by toggling the Delve slider in the SharePoint admin center under Settings | Classic settings | Delve (Powered by Office Graph)). Disabling the Office Graph effectively prevents Delve from showing users what it has deemed potentially relevant information. It does not, however, change or improve the security of the environment—users can still access that content and search for it via the SharePoint Online search interface.
- The Delve tile on the App Launcher
- The SharePoint Suggested list
- The Discover list in Outlook, OneDrive, and the Microsoft Office home page
- Visibility of other users' documents on the user's Delve page
You can use the Delve interface to build your own user profile, including skills and expertise, project information and experience, and information about your education and work experience. Delve also provides a personal blog interface.
You can share content with your team and they can discover it on Delve.