Many think that the User Profile service is simply used for connecting SharePoint to Active Directory so that the attributes can be synced into their user profiles in SharePoint. They also know they can add really cool pictures to their profile along with some additional information that the others can see if you give them the ability to. User profiles are so much more than that and I could talk for hours about all the great things that it can do. Many don't realize it but you can increase user adoption by implementing some of cool features and connections to other service applications such as Managed Metadata and Search. In this session we go through the configuration of the user profile service application and the integration with the other service applications to build your one stop shop for company information. Areas that will be covered in this session: • Custom User Properties • Deeper Active Directory Integration • Social • Relevant Searching • Company Directory • Deep Dive into a Profile • Audiences • MySites

1. User Profiles: I Didn’t Know I Could Do That?
Stacy L. Deere-Strole
Focal Point Solutions, LLC

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4. Co-Author of Using
Managed Metadata
SharePoint
2010 & 2013

6. • A user profile is a visual display of
personal data associated with a
specific user, or a customized
desktop environment.
• A profile refers therefore to the
explicit digital representation of a
person's identity.

7. User Profile
vs.
MySites
• Can you have one without
the other?
• Why would you not have
MySites?
• Any reason you would not
use User Profiles?

8. Moral of the Story…
User Profiles and
MySites may seem like
the same thing and look
like they are the same
thing but in reality…. Are
two totally different
creatures.

9. Where Do I Start

10. Links on User Profile
Permissions & Planning
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh296982(v=office.15).aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff182925(v=office.15).aspx
• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(v=office.15).aspx
• User Profile Properties: http://spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co/?p=19
• Managed Metadata: http://spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co/?p=25

11. • Self-Service
•Whose Who
•Meeting Preparation
•Corporate Directory
•Quick Information
• Learn About Your Company
• Builds Company Bonding
• Integration to Other Systems
•Customizable to Suit YOUR
Needs!!

12. Integration

13. • Search
• Managed Metadata
• Work Management
• Workflows
• Custom
Development
• Exchange
• Lync

14. • Import Capabilities
• Export Capabilities
• Force Active Directory to get Updated
•Automation not Manualization 
• Is Your AD Up to Date?
•Does it pull from another system?
•Does it push to another system?
• Is there always an ongoing project
for AD?

15. How can I build
a User Profile
Service
Application?

16. User Profile Service Application

17. Step #1

18. Step #2

19. Step #3

20. Step #4

21. Step #5

22. Step #6

23. Step #7

24. Almost There… Step #8

25. User Profile Service Application

26. Active Directory Synchronization

27. Active Directory Connection

28. Active Directory Users

29. Synchronization Filters

30. Completed Disabled User Filter

31. Start Profile Synchronization

32. Starting Profile Synchronization

33. Search – Almost There!!

35.  Skill Searching
 Corporate Directory
 Custom User Properties
 Managed Metadata
Integration
 Pictures Integration
 Active Directory Import &
Export Synchronization
NON-EXISTANT MANUAL INPUTTING ON A REGULAR BASIS

36. The Cool Stuff

37. Custom User Properties

38. Managed Metadata

39. Manage User Properties

40. Manage User Properties

41. Manage User Properties

42. Manage User Properties

43. Manage User Properties –
Active Directory Mapping

44. Manage User Profiles -
Verification

45. User Profile: Custom Properties

46. Manage User Properties

47. Manage User Properties

48. Manage User Properties
Not displayed
here but it can
be…

49. Cheat Sheet
User Profile Properties: http://spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co/?p=19

56. Quick Corporate Directory

57. Providing the Layout
 Site Settings
 Look & Feel
 Page Layouts & Site Template
 (Welcome Page) Search People in the Page
Layouts section.

58. Adding the Page
 Search Center
 Select Files
 New Document
 Select Page

59. Create Page

60.  Edit Page
 Edit People Search Core Results Web Part
 Select Change Query
 Property Filter: ‘contentclass’
 Equals  Manual Value  spspeople

61. Note: You can change these to show other metadata properties that are defined in
the search center by selecting the ‘Choose refiners’ option on the refinement web
part. The managed property must have the ‘Refinable’ option selected in the
search schema for it to be available in this list.

62. Add Sort Options
 Edit Page
 Edit People Search Core Results Web Part
 Check “Show sort dropdown”
Example (First Name, Last Name & Social Distance):
[{"name":"First name (A-Z)","sorts":[{"p":"FirstName","d":0}]},{"name":"First name
(Z-A)","sorts":[{"p":"FirstName","d":1}]}, {"name":"Last name (A-Z)","sorts":
[{"p":"LastName","d":0}]},{"name":"Last name (Z-A)","sorts":
[{"p":"LastName","d":1}]}, {"name":"Social distance","sorts":[]}]
Note: Ensure that the managed property you want to sort by has the Sortable option enabled in the search
schema. Search Service Application, Search Schema, Select the LastName managed property and select the
Sortable: ‘Yes – active’ option (do the same for all properties you want to sort). Note you will need a full crawl for
this to take effect.

63. Sort

64. Did You Know?

65. Coolest Profile Ever!!

66. Cool Profile #2 – Difference is?
Why?

67. Silverlight Org Chart

70. How many are Profilivers Now?

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