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Jun 18, 2015
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User Profiles: I Didn’t Know I Could Do That?Stacy L. Deere-Strole
Focal Point Solutions, LLC
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Who is Stacy L. Deere-Strole
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Now You
Know
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Co-Author of Using
Managed Metadata
SharePoint 2010 & 2013
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Greatest Achieveme
nt New Godmother
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What is a User Profile User Profile vs. MySite How Can a User Profile Help My Company How Do I Build a User Profile Service
Application Active Directory Integration Service Application Integration Points The Cool Stuff Quick Wins User Adoption Wrap-Up
Agenda
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What is a User
Profile?
• A user profile is a visual display of personal data associated with a specific user, or a customized desktop environment.
• A profile refers therefore to the explicit digital representation of a person's identity.
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A My Sites
Provides
A central location for you to view and manage all of your documents, tasks, links, calendar, colleagues, and other personal information.
A way for other users to learn about you and your areas of expertise, current projects, and colleague relationships.
A place for content providers to target information to you based on the information that you and your organization provide in your profile, such as your title, department, and interests.
A place for administrators to present personalized Web sites.
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Can you have one without the other? Why would you not have MySites? Any reason you would not use User Profiles? Show of hands…
User Profile vs. MySites
How many of you are using them and if not WHY?
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How and Can a User Profile Help my
Company?
• Self-Service• Whose Who• Company Directory Replacement• Quick Information• Learn About Your Company• Builds Company Bonding• Integration to Other Systems• Customizable to Suite YOUR
Needs!!
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How can I build a User
Profile Service
Application?
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User Profile Service Application
• Central Administration• Application Management• Manage Service Applications• New• User Profile Service
Application
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Step #1
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Step #2
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Step #3
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Step #4
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Step #5
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Step #6
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Step #7
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Almost There… Step #8• System Settings• Manage Services on Server• Select Start on “User Profile Service”• WAIT DON’T DO IT I KNOW YOU WANT TO…• Initiate an IISReset• Start “User Profile Sychronization Service”• Be Patient this can take up to 10 minutes to start…
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http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh296982(v=office.15).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff182925(v=office.15).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049(v=office.15).aspx
Links on User Profile Permissions & Planning
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Service Integration
Points?
• Search• Managed Metadata• Work Management• Workflows• Custom Development• Exchange• Lync
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Active Directory Integratio
n!
• Import Capabilities• Export Capabilities• Force Active Directory to get
Updated• Automation not Manualization
Questions?
• Is Your AD Up to Date?• Does it pull from another system?• Does it push to another system?• Is there always an ongoing project
for AD?
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Active Directory Connection
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Active Directory Users
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Custom User Properties
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Manage User Properties
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User Profile Properties: http://spmindmelt.focalpointsolutions.co/?p=19
Cheat Sheet
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The Cool
Stuff!!
Skill Searching Corporate Directory Custom User Properties Managed Metadata Integration Pictures Integration Active Directory Import & Export
Synchronization NON-EXISTANT MANUAL INPUTTING
ON A REGULAR BASIS
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Team Identification
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Corporate Directory
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The Coolest Profile Ever
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Cool Profile #2 – Difference is? Why?
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The Quick Wins…We ALL Need Them!
Corporate Directory Skill Sets Organizations Pictures!!! Find where your key points of
failures are and key in on them…don’t shy away.
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User Adoption“The Key
to all Project
Success”
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How many are Profilivers Now?
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Moral of the Story…User Profiles and MySites may seem like the same thing and look like they are the same thing but in reality…. Are two totally different creatures.
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Join us for SharePint Kristopher’s Right after the event ends First drink is on us Bring in your ticket for validation
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SharePint DirectionsKristopher’s250 North Trade Street Matthews, NC 28105
1. Turn right onto Ann St. : 1.1 mi2. Turn right onto Old Monroe Rd. : 0.1
mi3. Road changes to E John St. : 359ft4. Turn right onto N Trade St. : 2.3 mi
1st drink on us, bring your ticket
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