Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Vol 1 part 42. 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 8-29 Viewing Social Tagging Information There are three ways in which a user can see social tagging information On a user s My Profile page. As the result of following a tag or a colleague. On Web pages in the Office SharePoint Server farm. Hiding Social Tagging Information Three features of SharePoint 2010 help to protect privacy and security Private tags. A user who adds a tag to a Web page can indicate that the tag is private. Other people cannot see the fact that the tag was added to the Web page nor do they see the tag in the user s tag cloud. The ratings control. The ratings control only displays the aggregate rating that an item has received. It does not identify the users who rated the item or display the individual ratings that were provided. Security trimming. Adding a tag a note or a rating to a Web page creates an activity. The SharePoint security trimmer determines whether a given user has permission to view a specific Web page by using permissions information that the Search Service gathers as it crawls Web pages. If the security trimmer cannot determine whether a user has permission to view a Web page it reports that the user does not have permission to view the Web page. If the user is not permitted to view the Web page SharePoint 2010 does not display the activity. Note If the Search Service has not crawled a Web page activities that relate to that Web page are not displayed. Best Practices The following best practices will help you to develop a social tagging plan that makes effective use of the available features Educate users about which aspects of their social tagging activity are public and which are private. Ensure that users understand when to mark tags as private. MCT USE ONLY. STUDENT USE PROHIBITED 8-30 Designing a Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Infrastructure Carefully evaluate all custom code before you deploy it. A custom application can access social tagging data by using the social tagging object model. An .
