Microsoft® Office SharePoint® Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Configuring and Managing Audiences

You create audiences in SharePoint Server 2007 to display and lock down content to certain groups of users, or even to just one user. Audiences can be used to target content in sites, lists, Web Parts, and Web Part pages throughout your SharePoint Server 2007 site collections. For example, you can create rules in your audience settings to only show content to users who meet a certain criteria, such as a profile property designating particular skills or a particular site, or to users who report under a certain manager or are part of a particular distribution list. Users meeting the criteria for an audience are referred to as members of an audience. Audiences embellish the personalization experience in SharePoint ...