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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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Setting up and compiling an audience


Audiences are a brilliant way to target content to specific users. Typically, users are in Organizational Units (OU) in Active Directory (AD). This is a way for enterprises to classify the role of an individual in the organization.

A role can be classified by where a person is located—for example, North America, Asia, Europe, and so on. Or the person can be classified by type of employment such as hourly or salary.

Once classified at the AD level, audiences can be applied to a SharePoint audience. Once an audience is created and compiled, it can be applied as a parameter in web parts functionally targeting that content.

This recipe reviews how to create an audience.

Getting ready

You must have farm-level administrative permissions to the Central Administration site. Set up an OU group named na_hourly in AD (user profile sync must be run for this to be available).

How to do it...

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

  2. 2. The...

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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Published in: Jan 2011Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849681087

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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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