Activity Feed Settings

Activity Feed lets users add feeds of events to their My Site web sites. Feeds might give information about activities of their colleagues, such as updates to profile properties and creation of social tags and notes. Activity Feed does not enable tracking of activities that a user does not have permissions to see.

Activity Feed is off by default in a User Profile service application. To turn on this feature, a farm administrator must configure the User Profile service Activity Feed timer job. Follow these steps to turn on the Profile Service – Activity Feed Job:

1. On the Central Administration site, click Monitoring from the Quick Launch.
2. In the Timer Jobs section, click Review Job Definitions.
3. Click User Profile Service – Activity Feed Job in the list of timer jobs.
4. On the Edit Timer Job page, leave the default settings and click Enable.

Once this job runs, users will see content on their My Newsfeed page of their My Site, as shown in Figure 23.9. This example shows several activities by User5 who has recently added a new colleague, updated his profile in terms of interests, skills, and his Ask Me About information. In addition, User4 recently added several new colleagues. The My Newsfeed and other components of the My Site are discussed in the next section.

Figure 23.9. Example of My Newsfeed.