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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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Creating a synchronization connection


User Profile Synchronization synchronizes directory or business system information with the SharePoint store. This is a two-way sync. However, you must decide whether a specific user profile property will be exported or imported. By default, user profile properties are configured to be imported.

Once this information is imported, it can be utilized in audiences and the social experience, for example, the Silverlight Organization browser found under My Profile.

SharePoint can sync with the following:

  • Active Directory Domain Services

  • Novell eDirectory version 8.7.3 (LDAP)

  • SunOne version 5.2

  • IBM Tivoli 5.2

  • Business Data Connectivity Service (BCS)

In this recipe, we will set up a connection and start synchronization.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site. The User Profile Synchronization service should be started.

How to do it...

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

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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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