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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

You're reading from  Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849681087
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Peter Serzo Peter Serzo
Profile icon Peter Serzo

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Administration Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Upgrading and Configuring SharePoint 2010 Service Applications Farm Governance Site Administration Monitoring and Reporting Search Security Administration: Users and Groups Content Management Social Architecture Backup and Restore Performance Monitoring

Creating a new user profile property


By default, a SharePoint user profile comes with approximately 68 defined properties. The better populated these elements are, the better the integrity of the social experience in SharePoint.

Many of these properties are mapped to corresponding values in Active Directory. In this way, they can be updated in AD and then the changes are reflected in SharePoint (after a user profile synchronization).

New to SharePoint 2010 is the ability to update AD from SharePoint. While this is not the point of this recipe, it is important to have this information.

While SharePoint has many properties, there always seems to be the business use case outlining a property that SharePoint does not cover. This can be a result of the enterprise and terminology used.

A large enterprise such as a bank is the example we will use in this recipe. We will create a property to store a branch office location where the employee is located. Creating this property helps classify an employee...

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