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Why is someone hidden (or visible) when they shouldn't be?

The wrong people showing or missing usually comes down to filtering rules or a manual hide.

Written by Greg Bennett

If the wrong people are showing, or someone who should appear is missing, it’s usually a filtering rule or a manual hide.


Check these

  1. Filtering rules. Guest accounts, service accounts, and domain rules can hide accounts automatically, and a real employee can be hidden if they’re mis-detected as a service account. Review your rules in Directory Console → Data Sources → Filtering Rules.

  2. Manual hide or a manual override. Someone may have been set to No, always hide or Yes, always show in the Console, and either setting beats your filtering rules. Check Directory Console → People, click their row, then Manage.

  3. The profile type. If a record is classified as a person, no service account or guest rule will touch it, and the reverse is also true. See How to change a profile type.

  4. The Profiles card. On the Console Overview, this shows how many accounts are hidden by rules versus hidden manually.


Wrongly flagged as a service account?

If a real person is being hidden by the service account rule, you have two fixes:

  • Override it for that person. In Directory Console → People, click their row, open Manage, and set Show in directory to Yes, always show. They will appear even though the rule matches them.

  • Correct the record. Change the profile type from Service Account to Person, so the rule stops matching them at all. This is the better long-term fix.

If neither works, contact OneDirectory Support.


A whole group appeared at once

If it is not one person but a class of accounts, service accounts or guests showing up together when nothing changed on your side, that is a different problem. See Hidden accounts suddenly started appearing.


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