Transcript Shared Services Administering User Profiles and

Profiles and Active Directory Overview
• User profiles
– Import from Active Directory
– Creating new properties
• Audiences
– Creating audiences
– Using audiences in pages, web parts, and lists
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Profiles
• Profile consists of properties such as name, state,
manager, etc
• SharePoint stores profile information in profiles
database
• Active directory is the source for some of the profile
properties. Using business data catalog it is possible to
pull data from other sources into profile database
without writing code.
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Active Directory Partial Import
• Partial Import from Active Directory can be done by
specifying the AD query string in the connection.
example of User Filter:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(mail=*))
Gets all user accounts that have an email property
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Demo: User Profiles Management
Demo: User Profiles Management
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Create user profiles manually
Create a connection to Active Directory
Import all profiles using full import
Import profiles with email address
Create a new profile property “State”
Schedule imports
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Audiences - Overview
• Audiences allow content managers to target content to
specific people based on the criteria in user profiles or
group membership. Audiences are not a substitute for
security.
example:
Oklahoma IT Manager. State=OK and Department=IT
• Content managers can target pages, web parts, and lists
to an audience
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Demo: Audiences
Demo: Audiences
1. Create and compile “WY Residents” audience (Creating
an audience does not make usable right away – it needs
to be compiled.)
2. Use the audience to target a web part and a list
3. Use the audience to target an article page
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Free Style Exercise
Free Style Exercise
1. Import profiles that have an email address (you have to
have at least one user with email address.)
2. Create a “State” property. Go into active directory and
change the “State” property of administrator to “IL”.
3. Create “IL Residents” audience.
4. Create Calendar view of “Document Library” list in
“Sales” site (create the site if necessary).
5. Add a “Document Library” web part with Calendar view
to the “Sales” site home page
6. Show this new web part to “IL Residents” only.
7. Change “State” property in active directory to “TX” and
update the audience. View the “Sales” site again.
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References
• Office SharePoint Server Administrator’s manual
• ADSI Search Filter Syntax
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/enus/adsi/adsi/search_filter_syntax.asp
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