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Microsoft Sharepoint Products and Technologies Resource Kit eBook

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

also lose any values for properties mapped to Active Directory that have changed<br />

since the last import.<br />

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Figure 23-1 Add, edit, or delete user profiles on the View User Profiles page<br />

Importing User Profiles<br />

Note If you delete a user profile for a user that remains in Active Directory<br />

directory service, that user profile is automatically recreated the next time<br />

user profiles are imported. If a user account is deleted in Active Directory, it<br />

will not be deleted automatically from the profile database during the next<br />

import. Instead, the SharePoint profile will be marked as deleted. Then you<br />

can use the selector on the Manage User Profiles page to manually delete<br />

the user profile. Remember that this action deletes only the user profile—<br />

you’ll still need to delete permission assignments <strong>and</strong> the user’s My Site<br />

manually.<br />

You can import user profile information from Active Directory. This saves time in<br />

entering user information for every user in your organization, because otherwise all<br />

user profiles will have to be added manually. However, the user information might<br />

not include all the properties you want to show for each user. Also, if you do not<br />

import user profiles from Active Directory, you will lose some audience features <strong>and</strong><br />

the ability to create audiences based on SharePoint-specific criteria. We do not<br />

reconnect back to Active Directory to dynamically pull the user profiles for Share-

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