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User Profiles: I Didn’t Know I Could Do That?. Stacy L. Deere-Strole Focal Point Solutions, LLC. Please thank our sponsors!. Platinum Sponsors. Gold Sponsors. Who is Stacy L. Deere-Strole. Now You Know . Co-Author of Using Managed Metadata SharePoint 2010 & 2013.
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User Profiles: I Didn’t Know I Could Do That? Stacy L. Deere-Strole Focal Point Solutions, LLC
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What is a User Profile • User Profile vs. MySite • How Can a User Profile Help My Company • How Do I Build a User Profile Service Application • Active Directory Integration • Service Application Integration Points • The Cool Stuff • Quick Wins • User Adoption • Wrap-Up Agenda
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. What is a User Profile?
A central location for you to view and manage all of your documents, tasks, links, calendar, colleagues, and other personal information. • A way for other users to learn about you and your areas of expertise, current projects, and colleague relationships. • A place for content providers to target information to you based on the information that you and your organization provide in your profile, such as your title, department, and interests. • A place for administrators to present personalized Web sites. A My Sites Provides
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? • Show of hands… How many of you are using them and if not WHY?
How and Can a User Profile Help my Company? • Self-Service • Whose Who • Company Directory Replacement • Quick Information • Learn About Your Company • Builds Company Bonding • Integration to Other Systems • Customizable to Suite YOUR Needs!!
User Profile Service Application • Central Administration • Application Management • Manage Service Applications • New • User Profile Service Application
Almost There… Step #8 • System Settings • Manage Services on Server • Select Start on “User Profile Service” • WAIT DON’T DO IT I KNOW YOU WANT TO… • Initiate an IISReset • Start “User Profile Sychronization Service” • Be Patient this can take up to 10 minutes to start…
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
Service Integration Points? • Search • Managed Metadata • Work Management • Workflows • Custom Development • Exchange • Lync
Import Capabilities • Export Capabilities • Force Active Directory to get Updated • Automation not Manualization Active Directory Integration! Questions? • 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?
Cheat Sheet User Profile Properties: http://spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co/?p=19
The Cool Stuff!! • 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
Corporate Directory • Skill Sets • Organizations • Pictures!!! • Find where your key points of failures are and key in on them…don’t shy away. The Quick Wins…We ALL Need Them!
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.
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