In this session, you'll learn how to customize SharePoint to automate My Site provisioning for greater consistency and governance, and to leverage the User Profiles service for easy navigation of user properties. The speakers will demonstrate several approaches from real customer engagements, including a SharePoint 2013 app and a full-featured, farm-level solution that can scale for a large enterprise. Come and see how a little custom code can go a long way to organize and manage SharePoint My Sites and consume user properties in different scenarios.

1. Leveraging User Profiles and MySites
In SharePoint 2010 and 2013
Beatrice Baciu - Architect
Derek Cash-Peterson - Practice Director

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thebookofsharepoint.blogspot.com @BeatriceBaciu
@SPDCP www.spdcp.com

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The Challenge
• Centralize all profile data
• Searching profile data
• Integrate with other systems of record

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Agenda
• How does the user profile service work?
• The benefits of the user profile service.
• How does the user profile relate to MySites?
• Configuring user profile service
• Ways to develop against the user profile service in 2010 & 2013

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What We Are Not Talking About
• Enterprise Social
• Tagging/Notes
• Basic configuration of User Profile Service

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How Does the User Profile Service Work
SharePoint
User Profile
Service
Application
FIM
C#
Direct Active
Directory Import
External System
?
Active Directory

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Benefits of the User Profile Service
• Allows centralized location for all user properties
• Aggregation of user properties regardless of source
• Out-of-the-box storage of links to user mysites
• MySite provides individual location to manage and store documents, links,
etc.
• Easy consumption of data in code

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How does the user profile relate to MySites
• There is a link to the users MySite in the User Profile
• MySite provides user with an interface to edit profile data
• MySite Provides an individual repository for users that is security trimmed
• Aggregation of all user profile properties in one source

9. User Profile Service
Demo Configuration
with ADFS and a
custom database

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Recap
• Use AD/ADFS as primary sync connection
• Use BCS to import additional profile properties
• Use property mapping to aggregate the User Profile
• If using SPD, the primary key will be used as the identifier; modify the
BDCM file yourself and use a unique logical key
• Permissions in BDC

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Troubleshooting
• Connections Disappear: consider restarting the User Profile
Synchronization Service
• Random Sync issues: consider restarting the SharePoint Timer Service
• when MySite gets created, user profile gets created if not there

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Limitations
• BDC cannot be the primary sync connection
• Duplicate profiles
• Once sync connection is deleted, profiles need to be purged via PS

14. User Profile Service in
Farm-level scenario

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Design Approach

16. Coding with the User
Profile Service
in SharePoint 2010

17. Coding with the User
Profile Service
in SharePoint 2013

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User Profile Service Data Access via REST
• GET
• All User Properties for Current User
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties
• Get Specific Property for Current User
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetMyProperties?$select=PictureUrl,A
ccountName
• Get All Properties for Specific User
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetPropertiesFor(accountName=@v)?
@v='domainusername’
• Get Specific Property For Specific User
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/GetUserProfilePropertyFor(accountNa
me=@v,propertyName='LastName')?@v='domainusername‘

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User Profile Service Data Access via REST
• POST
• Provision User MySite
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.ProfileLoader.GetProfileLoader/GetUserProfile/CreatePersonalSiteE
nqueue
• Set Current User’s Profile Picture
http://siteurl/_api/SP.UserProfiles.PeopleManager/SetMyProfilePicture
• NOTES
• Changing user’s profile properties is not implemented in REST or CSOM
• Deletion of user profiles is not implemented in REST or CSOM
• o365 authentication uses account names like
@v='i:0%23.f|membership|user@siteurl.onmicrosoft.com‘

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Recap
• How the user profile service works.
• The benefits of the user profile service.
• How does the user profile relate to MySites?
• Configuring user profile service
• Ways to develop against the user profile service in 2010 & 2013

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22. Beatrice Baciu
@BeatriceBaciu
http://thebookofsharepoint.blogspot.com/
Derek Cash-Peterson
@spdcp
http://www.spdcp.com
BlueMetal Architects
www.bluemetal.com
Blog.bluemetal.com
@bluemetalinc
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