The User Profile Service Application is used to synchronise data from Active Directory to the profile database maintained by SharePoint. The profile database contains rich information about end users that can be displayed in sites. The User Profile service application maps Active Directory fields to fields in the user ’s profile. On a scheduled basis, this information is [...]
As I’ve been getting to grips with SharePoint Server 2010 I’m really starting to appreciate how modular and how WAN friendly the product is. Our organisation is a large multinational with major regional sites around the world, unfortunately not every regional site has SharePoint Administrators available for their disposal. With that in mind we wanted [...]
We’ve been working with Microsoft SharePoint Server (MSS) 2010 for a little while now and trying to plan our strategy going forward. One feature we’re interested in is utilising People Search as a corporate global address-book. One compelling reason for a multinational company like ours is to use the new phonetic search. An example a [...]