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Information about users in a central location

Information about users in a central location. Social computing features use this information to enable productive interactions so that users can collaborate efficiently. In order to provision My Sites, enable social computing features such as social tagging and newsfeeds, and create and distribute profiles across multiple sites and farms,

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Best Practice to check if a user exist

Am I missing something here? There should be a method to check if a user exist, which doesn't throw an error if it doesn't. EnsureUser() is not applicable, because that method creates a new user if it doesn't exist. At the time, this is what I do,…
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Updating User Profile doesn't invalidate cache

The website I'm building has a heavily extended user model. The requirement is to have a single page where admins (who are windows authenticated users) can see the profiles of all the users. Regular users (who are FBA authenticated) must also be…
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SharePoint 2010: allowing users to modify other users' profile properties

In SharePoint 2010 is it possible to delegate permissions to a user so they can edit other users profile properties through the standard web interface i.e. not through Central Administration? An example would be allowing an HR employee to update…
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Does every user have a user.ID?

Does every user that belongs to a site collection or a group in that site collection, have a user.ID? I am iterating through a list of SPFieldUserValueCollection and am comparing the SPFieldUserValue.User.ID with the…
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How do you change user's names and email addresses?

In SharePoint 2010, how do you change users' names and email addresses when you don't have Active Directory - when the accounts you are using are just local user accounts?
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SharePoint 2010 is altering user profile properties

I'm facing a weird issue with SharePoint 2010 user profile. I'm storing in the user profile a base 64 string that hold some custom data. As the data may be quite heavy, the profile property has been set to allow multiple string values. However, when…
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Create User Profile for external Users in sharepoint 2010?

I have 20,000 external Users, they don't have domain account. How can i create User Profiles for them in SharePoint 2010 ? Is there any way to create them without adding them to domain ?
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Should I not be able to see all user accounts in central admin?

I'm a little confused... When I log into the main SharePoint web interface (SharePoint 2007) I'll see a specific user under People and Groups. Then if I log into Central Admin > Shared Services > User Profiles and Properties > View User Profiles…
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Retrieve UserProfileProperties using SSOM for a specific user

How to retrieve user profile properties "department" and "location" for a specific user using Server-side object model. I am able to get user's DisplayName, email, manager and few more properties but not able to retrieve user's "department" and…
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When updating SharePoint profile in Delve, where are the preset 'skills' stored?

Apologies that I need to be asking this question but I have not managed to find the answer/question anywhere. I am updating my profile in Delve and i'm only allowed to enter certain keywords into the 'skills' section. While I can easily live with…
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Get all user profiles in SharePoint 2010

I'm using the User Profile Service Application in SharePoint 2010 which contains imported user profiles. Now I want to display a list of all users who have a profile, to show a list like "my colleagues". But the Profile Service API doesn't seem to…
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Privacy/security for changes to user profiles

I am querying the UserProfileManager using the GetChanges method which returns a collection of strongly typed collection of objects describing the changes to user profiles. The objects are derived from UserProfileChange and ProfileBaseChange…
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Get e-mail from user profile

Could you please help me how to add the e-mail address of the logged user into a form field? From the user profile, the email address is stored there, I need to extract and dislplay the e-mail address in a form field. Something similar to the name…
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How do I programatically access Locale in my custom web part?

I've been going crazy trying to find where I can access the Locale found by going to your username at the top right of SharePoint -> My Settings -> My Regional Settings I've been able to access Theme by using this code: // Get data from…
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Entering Skills Proficiency in People Profile

We are considering implementing a predefined listing of skills for people to choose from when updating their profile in MOSS. How can we add the ability for each person to also include their proficiency for each skill, i.e, database design-expert,…
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