SharePoint 2010 For Dummies, 2nd Edition

Chapter 15

Managing Your User Profile

In This Chapter

Viewing RSS news feeds of your SharePoint lists

Displaying RSS feeds from Outlook

Viewing RSS feeds of other sites

Subscribing and managing alerts

People are central to any business, no matter how big or how small. Without people, also known as employees, a business wouldn’t run. How people interact with each other creates the culture of a business, and part of that culture is how people figure out who does what job, who knows who, who knows what, and how someone might be able to help you do your job better. That culture, to some extent, can be reflected in SharePoint user profiles, and the better the user profile, the more likely you’re going to get your job done more effectively. And, the more likely others are going to be able to find you easily when they need to.

Creating a Holistic Profile Experience

The first part of your creating your profile is to take a look at what properties are there by default. Many of the basic properties come from Active Directory (AD), but depending on how SharePoint was set up, you could also ...