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Published inJan 2011
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Peter Serzo
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Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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Adding a user subtype for user profile


Subtypes are a way of classifying users with a more granular set of properties. Companies have many types of users. Here are some of the types:

  • Consultants

  • Employees (Hourly/Salary)

  • Interns

  • Retired employees

This recipe will show how to create a subtype and classify someone.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site. The User Profile Service should be running with users from Active Directory.

How to do it...

  1. 1. Open the Central Administration screen and click Application Management.

  2. 2. The third section is Service Applications. Under this section, click Manage service applications.

  3. 3. Find User Profile Service Application and left-click to the right of the name— the line will be highlighted. Click Manage on the ribbon.

  4. 4. Under the section named People, click Manage User Sub-types.

  5. 5. The following page will be displayed:

    Enter the value as Consultant for the Name as well as the Display Name... field.

  6. 6...

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Peter Serzo

Peter Serzo is an English major from Kent State who started his technical career with EDS out of college. 20 years later, all as a consultant, he is a national speaker regarding to SharePoint having worked at organizations of all sizes. His next challenge is to bring SharePoint to children and teach them. He has been working with SharePoint since 2003 in companies such as Microsoft, Ford, ADP, and many others throughout the United States. He is a Senior SharePoint Architect for High Monkey Consulting. The name refers to an old Jamaican proverb that means the higher up you go, the more responsible you must be; High Monkey takes pride in its accountability and excellence of work in regards to its clients' needs.
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