Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 43. This course is intended for IT Professionals who use Microsoft SharePoint 2010 in a team-based, medium-sized to large environment. While they may have implemented a SharePoint deployment, they have limited experience in designing a SharePoint infrastructure. They likely work as a senior administrator who acts as a technical lead over a team of administrators. Members of this audience should have at least 6 months experience with SharePoint 2010. | Planning Social Computing 8-39 Organizational profiles. Organizational profiles contain detailed information about an organization such as teams and divisions. You can use organizational profiles to gain information about the organizational structure. Profile synchronization. User and organizational profile information that the User Profile Service stores is synchronized with external directory services such as Active Directory. A user profile can incorporate data from more than one source. You can schedule synchronization depending on how often you expect the relevant information to change. Audiences. Audiences enable you to target content to users based on their job or task. You can define an audience by membership in a SharePoint group or distribution list by the organizational reporting structure or by the public properties in user profiles. My Site Host. My Site Host is a dedicated site for hosting My Site Web sites. You must provision a My Site Host before you can deploy the social features of SharePoint 2010. My Site Web site. Each user in your organization who has a synchronized user profile can have a personal site. Users can manage the content of their My Site Web sites and can include features such as links tags colleagues and documents. Social tags and notes. Users can add social tags to documents to other SharePoint items and to other objects such as external Web pages and blog posts. Users can also create notes on any SharePoint page. Administrators can delete all tags for employees when they leave the company or remove a tag that they do not want. User profiles provide profile information for social computing features particularly the following The user properties that are displayed on My Site Web sites. The organizational hierarchy that is displayed in the organization browser. The tags notes and comments that users create. These features enable a user to stay informed about the content that interests them most. You should plan how to manage the .
