Anniversaries, New Hires, and Birthdays (automatic feed from Microsoft 365 and Azure/EntraID)

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Automatically pull employee Hire Date Anniversaries, New Hires, or Birthdays show from Azure AD and User Profile.

To use this web part add it to one of your narrow SharePoint sections:

Configuring anniversaries
You can make the web part show a feed of upcoming:

• Birthdays – set in individual user profile (see steps: Setting Employee Birth Date in SharePoint User Profile)
• Hire Date Anniversaries – set in Azure/ Entra ID (see steps: Setting Employee Hire Date in Azure/ Entra ID)
• New Hires – set Hire Date in Azure/ Entra ID (same as for Hire Date Anniversaries)
  Available in Anniversaries (live)– Version June 3, 2025

You can also track total number of Hire Date Anniversaries like this:

To enable, simply toggle this switch in web part properties (not available for Birthdays):

Filter out users

Available in Anniversaries (live)– Version June 2, 2025

You filter out users except those belonging to a specific M365 group, like this:

Above, only users belonging Marketing Members group will show and everyone else will not show. This can let you hide contractors and service accounts.

Birthdays loading too slow?

When there are many birthdays in the list, the web part could take minutes to load. To fix this, we’ve added birthday and month caching.

• Page admins can refresh the cache anytime with the new “Refresh Birthdays” button.

Enjoy a smoother, faster experience!