SPC310
General information about SharePoint User Profiles
• Add to “Ask me about” in My Profile
• View people who are following this tag
• People Search
• FAST Search
• Doesn’t Index Social Tags
• “There are no available items tagged with”
Social
Data
Profile Service
Instance
Profiles
Sync
Profile
Synchronization
Service
Instance
• User can define what they see in
the activity feed (through user
profile page)
• Customer gathers can provide
external data to the activity feed
• Activity feed can be surfaced
through search (people)
Activity Feed User profile DB
Activity Timer Job
Social
database
Change log User profile DB
Custom Timer Job
User Profile Service
Sync
Profiles
Profile
Synchronization
Service
Instance
Active
Directory
LDAP
Business Connectivity
Service
The FIM Client is located at C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization
Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe
Property Name
Source Location Mapped to attribute
SPS-DistinguishedName
SID
First name
Last name
Work phone
Department
Title
Manager
About me
Picture
UserName
Work e-mail
Mobile phone
Office
Past projects
Schools
Birthday
Status Message
Employee ID (custom)
Cost Center (custom)
AD
AD
AD
AD
AD
AD
AD
AD
SharePoint
AD*
AD
AD
SharePoint
AD
SharePoint
BCS
BCS
SharePoint
BCS
LDAP
<dn>
objectSid
givenName
Sn
telephoneNumber
department
title
manager
N/A
picture
sAMAccountName
Mail
N/A
office
N/A
Schools
DateOfBirth
N/A
EmployeeID
costcenter
Visible on
My Site?
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Searchable?
No
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Editable By
User?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No
Privacy
Setting?
N/A
N/A
Write
back?
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
will
decide