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630 Part VII: Information Management in SharePoint <strong>Products</strong> <strong>and</strong> <strong>Technologies</strong><br />

SharePoint Services to facilitate team collaboration. This topic is discussed in<br />

detail in Chapter 30, “Default Tools to Customize SharePoint Services.”<br />

■ User profiles. User profiles allow you to search for <strong>and</strong> connect with people<br />

within your organization based on information people publish about<br />

themselves.<br />

■ Audiences. SharePoint Portal Server allows you to target content to people<br />

according to their membership in a particular audience.<br />

■ My Site. My Site is a personal Windows SharePoint Services site that provides<br />

personalized <strong>and</strong> customized information for you.<br />

■ Alerts. SharePoint Portal Server can alert you about new or updated information<br />

on topics that match your interests.<br />

If a corporation has divisions or customers in different countries or multilingual<br />

regions, the need arises to provide information <strong>and</strong> content in multiple languages.<br />

This chapter discusses how personalization services can be used to implement multilingual<br />

scenarios.<br />

Personalization services can be provided by a corporate portal site <strong>and</strong> consumed<br />

by different divisional portal sites through SharePoint shared services. This<br />

chapter discusses the personalization services of SharePoint Portal Server 2003.<br />

User Profiles<br />

User profiles enable you to search for <strong>and</strong> connect with people within your organization.<br />

User profile information is also used to generate a personal site in the portal<br />

site for individual users. Users can personalize their view of this site, called My Site.<br />

In addition, user profile information is used by index <strong>and</strong> search services to provide<br />

better search results, <strong>and</strong> it is used in targeting content to audiences. You can import<br />

user profile information directly from Active Directory directory service or enter it<br />

manually. You can also customize the properties of the user profile according to the<br />

needs of your organization or to map to Active Directory properties, such as Territory<br />

or Geography.<br />

As a portal site user, you can view <strong>and</strong> change your own user profile from My<br />

Site, a default area in the portal site that provides personalized information for you.<br />

You can change only profile properties that are marked as editable by profile administrators.<br />

You can view your own profile by using either the private view or the public<br />

view. You can edit your profile from either view, but the actual profile details are<br />

only displayed on the public view by default. The private view contains private<br />

information that is viewable only by you. Portal site users with the Manage Profiles<br />

right can manage profiles <strong>and</strong> quick links only. Other private information, such as<br />

your Private Documents Library, is only viewable to you <strong>and</strong> global administrators.

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