Reviewing the User Profile Service Application Settings

The following sections give overviews of the process of re-creating the User Profile service application as well as a web application and site collection to house the My Site sites. The User Profile Service is a service application in SharePoint Server 2010 that provides a central location for configuring and managing the following personalization settings:

• People— Tools are provided to Manage User Properties as well as to Manage User Profiles, Manage User Sub-Types, Manage Audiences, Schedule Audience Compilation, Manage User Permissions, Compile Audiences, and Manage Policies.

• Synchronization— Tools provided include Configure Synchronization Connections, Configure Synchronization Timer Job, Configure Synchronization Settings, and Start Profile Synchronization. These are important because they will determine where the user profiles get their data from and the update schedule.

• Organizations— Tools include Manage Organization Properties, Manage Organization Profiles, and Manage Organization Sub-Types.

• My Site settings— Setup My Sites, Configure Trusted Host Locations, Configure Personalization Site, Publish Links to Office Client Applications, Manage Social Tags, and Notes.

An example of a healthy User Profile service application is shown in Figure 23.3. Note that on the right side, there are a number of User Profiles that were synchronized from Active Directory.

Figure 23.3. Manage Profile Service page for a New User Profile service application.