Tag: SharePoint Profile Management
User Profile Sync and Offline Content Databases
by liquidpooled on Nov.10, 2009, under Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server
After a recent farm migration, a number of content databases were left offline. This had the unintended consequence of not allowing user profile synchronization to occur across site collections (where the content databases were offline).
The quick fix? Bring the content database(s) online.
The moral of the story? Do not leave your content database(s) offline without a good reason. If you do leave them offline, User Information Lists in the offline site collections will not be synchronized with the SSP.
Updating User Profile Properties for the Current User
by liquidpooled on Dec.16, 2008, under .NET, MSDN, Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server, TechNet, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Windows SharePoint Services
Updates to a user’s profile properties can be performed with the following:
Retrieving User Profile Properties for the Current User
by liquidpooled on Dec.16, 2008, under .NET, MSDN, Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server, TechNet, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Windows SharePoint Services
Retrieving a user’s profile properties can be achieved with the following block:
Creating Custom Profile Properties through Code (C#)
by liquidpooled on Dec.16, 2008, under .NET, MSDN, Microsoft, Office, Sharepoint Server, TechNet, Visual Studio 2005, Visual Studio 2008, Windows SharePoint Services
I recently needed to add several custom profile properties through a web part for tracking a users’ security preferences for a particular web application.
The following is the method used to create four new properties in the SSP: