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The public view of the user profile is visible to all other portal site users when
they click your name in the portal site. For example, when viewing search results,
you can click the author name to view the public user profile for the author.
Adding User Profiles
After clicking My Site a user profile is automatically created for you. During profile
creation SharePoint Portal Server attempts to retrieve data from the Active Directory
directory service which is configured as an import source. Users who do not have
user profiles available by using Active Directory directory service as an import
source must enter their user profile properties manually. Once user profiles are
added or imported, you can update information by editing each user profile. Editing
a user profile does not change the set of properties displayed in that user profile.
You can add, edit, or delete the individual profile properties on the Manage Profile
Database page in the User Profile Properties section.
Add a user profile manually
You can add user profiles manually if you do not want to or cannot import user
profile information automatically from an Active Directory directory service. For any
properties that you do not specify manually SharePoint Portal Server will attempt to
import values from the Active Directory directory service specified in the configuration
settings.
1. Use one of the following methods:
■ On the Manage Profile Database page in the Profile and Import Settings
section, click Add user profile.
■ On the View User Profiles page, click New Profile on the toolbar.
2. Type values for the required properties and for any other properties you want
to include for this user.
3. On the toolbar, click Save and Close.
4. To leave this page without adding a user profile, click Cancel and Go Back on
the toolbar.
It is also possible to edit and delete user profiles using the View User Profiles
page, which is shown in Figure 23-1. If you delete a user profile, you also delete the
properties and values for that user. Personalized links and alerts for that user are also
deleted. The personal site for that user is not deleted. Before deleting the user, you
should use the Manage Personal Sites option in the User Profile, Audiences, and Personal
Sites section on the Site Settings Administration page to delete the personal
site and copy items from the personal site for archiving purposes. Although you can
import any properties mapped to Active Directory directory service during the next
scheduled import, you permanently lose any custom properties that you added. You