Introduction to the sharepoint 2013 userprofile service By Quontra

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- A bit about User Profiles in SharePoint
- Birds eye view of the User Profile Service
- A bit of Infrastructure (yay!)
- Synchronization options for getting UPS data in and out of SharePoint
- UPS as a base layer for social features & My Sites
- A bit of SkyDrive therapy

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User Profile Service
Application
My Sites (Sky Drive
Pro)
User Profiles Audiences Others
Promoted Sites
Links
Social/Newsfeed
Ask Me
About/Like

 Provides a central location where service administrators
configure and administer the following features:
 User profiles – contain detailed information about people
in an organization. A user profile organizes and displays
all of the properties related to each user, together with
social tags, documents, and other items related to that
user.
 Profile synchronization – provides a reliable way to
synchronize groups and user profile information that is
stored in the SharePoint Server 2013 profile database
together with information that is stored in directory
services across the enterprise.

 Audiences – target content to users based on their job or task, as
defined by their membership in a SharePoint Server group or
distribution list, by the organizational reporting structure, or by the
public properties in their user profiles..
 My Site – a personal site that gives users in your organization a
central location to manage and store documents, links, and
information about colleagues.
 Social tags and notes – enables users to add social tags to
documents to SharePoint Server items. Users can also leave notes on
profile pages of a My Site or any SharePoint Server page.
 Newsfeed - is the user’s social hub where he or she can see updates
from the people, documents, sites, and tags that the user is
following

 When you create a User Profile service application,
SharePoint Server creates three databases for storing user
profile information and associated data:
 Profile database – used to store user profile information.
 Synchronization database – used to store configuration
and staging information for synchronizing profile data
from external sources such as the Active Directory
Domain Services (AD DS).
 Social tagging database – used to store social tags and
notes created by users. Each social tag and note is
associated with a profile ID.

 The User Profile service application relies on other service
applications to implement the full range of social computing
features in SharePoint Server. These related service
applications include the following:
 Managed metadata service – makes it possible to use
managed metadata and share content types across site
collections and web applications.
Search Service application – needed to enable the People
Search feature.
Business Connectivity Services – makes it possible to
populate the properties of existing user profiles from a
business system during profile synchronization.

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Features
-Active Directory forest with multiple
domains, one connection per domain
-Selection of OUs from which to import
-Import user and group objects
-Supports LDAP-based filters
-Supports full and incremental import
Benefits
-Fast and simple
-Performance similar to profile import in
SharePoint 2007
-Excellent for simple environments with
Active Directory
-No Synchronization database to manage
Limitations
-Active Directory data only
-Sync is one-way

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Features
-Bidirectional read/write to your Active
Directory/Identity provider
-Uses Forefront Identity Manager
Benefits
-Let’s SharePoint user interactions drive
identity in your organization
-One to one or one to many profile
property mapping is possible e.g. First
Name +Last Name + Job Title
-Excellent for more complex environments
with a grab bag of identity sources
Limitations
-Slower to synch, although improved
performance in 2013 -Complex to set up

Active Directory import
Small to midsize company
No custom HR system, no SAP
Want a fast, single synchronization option
User Profile Synchronization
Small to midsize or large company with a non-
Microsoft identity solution
Slightly more complex needs such as multiple
forests
Additional data systems (SAP, etc.)

 Manageability
User Profile Service is easier to manage, monitor,
troubleshoot, and grow
Performance
Better ability to get up and running quickly with Active
Directory Import capability
Quicker Synching
Social Integration
Deeper & more useful social tie in’s. The 2013 version of
SharePoint splits My Site into three sections: Newsfeed,
SkyDrive, and Sites.

 What are personal sites:
People do their everyday tasks in SharePoint by navigating among
three hubs: Newsfeed, SkyDrive, and Sites. The underlying software
powering the features in these hubs is My Sites technology.
 Why would I use this scenario:
My Sites technology surfaces profile data, activity feeds, tagging
capabilities, and search results for each SharePoint user in your
organization. When you deploy My Sites, each user gets a starting place
in SharePoint that brings together the sites, documents, and other
information that they care about and helps them share what they know.
Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/jj573574.aspx

 It’s possible, but:
- No MySites
- No News Feed integration
- No SkyDrive Integration
- No Mentions
- No Hashtags
- No Community Portals and Community
Sites integration with your News Feed

 The Newsfeed is the default page that displays when a user
accesses his or her My Site. This page displays the feed of recent
activities related to a user's specified colleagues and interests.
Users can customize their newsfeeds by adding or removing
colleagues they are interested in, specifying interests, and
configuring the kind of activities they want to follow, such as when
a colleague tags a shared interest.
Newsfeed Security Trimming - Based on Search & User Profile
Service Application Admin settings. Excellent explanation can be
found here:
http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/sharepoint/sharepoint-development/
sharepoint-2013-social-feed-security/

Introduction to the sharepoint 2013 userprofile service By Quontra

 About Me is your personal profile page. Your
organization may fill out some basic details about
you, such as your job title, department, and manager.
Typically, the rest is up to you. Use your About Me
page to highlight details about yourself you’d like
others to know about, such as your expertise,
interests, and background.

 SkyDrive – Link on the Ribbon Bar
When you create a My Site as a user, you get your
own Site Collection, which includes a Site with a
Documents Library amongst other things. The
SkyDrive hyperlink at the top is just a link to this
Document Library.
 .

 SkyDrive Pro – The document synchronization service
SkyDrive Pro is not really something that comes with SharePoint 2013. It actually
comes with Microsoft Office 2013 and very recently as a standalone download from
the Microsoft site.
 SkyDrive Pro isn’t a specific Document Library or place in SharePoint. It’s the
service that runs on your computer that does the Sync job for you. You can even
launch SkyDrive Pro from the start menu
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 http://www.microsoftofficedemos.com
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