Mapping a SharePoint Profile Field to Active Directory

This section covers the steps necessary to configure a SharePoint profile field to pull content from an AD field, and points out some of the other connectivity options.

Prerequisites for this next configuration exercise are as follows:

• Verify that there are one or more AD accounts that have the Mobile field populated. This field is available by opening Active Directory Users and Computers, locating the user’s name, right-clicking the user’s name and clicking Properties, and then accessing the Telephones tab and verifying that there is an entry in the Mobile field. In a test environment, simply enter in a fictitious mobile number and click OK.

• A User Profile service application needs to be configured, and synchronization with AD needs to be functional.

Follow these steps to map the Mobile field in the profile database to the Mobile field in Active Directory:

1. From the Central Administration site, click Application Management.
2. Click Manage Service Applications.
3. Locate the User Profile service application and click the title of the application.
4. When the Manage Profile Service page opens, click the link for Manage User Properties.
5. When the Manage User Properties page opens, scroll down to the section header Contact Information and locate the Mobile Phone entry. Note that it is not mapped to an Active Directory field, since the field in the Mapped Attribute column is empty. Hover over the Mobile Phone item and access the drop-down menu and click Edit.
6. Scroll down to the Add New Mapping section. Click the Attribute drop-down menu and locate and then click the entry titled Mobile. Verify that the Direction field is set to Import; then click the Add button. This attribute will now appear in the section immediately above the Add New Mapping section titled Property Mapping for Synchronization, as shown in Figure 23.6.

   Figure 23.6. New property mapped for synchronization.

   

7. Click OK to save the changes and return to the Manage User Properties page.
8. Return to the User Profile service application by clicking Application Management in the Quick Launch, and then by clicking Manage Service Applications and then clicking the title of the User Profile service application.
9. Click Start Profile Synchronization.
10. Make sure that the Start Incremental option is selected and click OK.
11. Once the synchronization has completed, the information should be added to the user’s profile. Validate that the information has been added by clicking Manage User Profiles in the People section of the Manage Profile Service page.
12. Enter a username that had the mobile field populated (per the prerequisites to this exercise) in the Find profiles field and click Find. Click the username when it is found in the Account Name column, access the drop-down menu for the name, and click Edit My Profile.
13. Scroll down to the Mobile Phone field, and it will show the Mobile number from Active Directory, as shown in Figure 23.7.

    Figure 23.7. New property value shown in the user profile record.

    

14. To validate that the data shows up on the actual My Site page, access the SharePoint 2010 top-level site using one of the users who has the Mobile field populated in AD (as specified in the prerequisites section prior to these steps), click the drop-down menu under the username (User1 in this example), and click My Site.
15. When the user’s My Site opens, click My Profile from the links available on the upper-left portion of the screen. Click the More Information link to the right of the placeholder for the photo, and the Mobile Phone information should display, as shown in Figure 23.8.

    Figure 23.8. New property value shown on a user’s My Site on the My Profile page.