Dec 09, 2016
SharePoint 2016 user profiles synchronisation service provides a central location for configuring and managing the core elements of personalisation settings. It consists of:
User profiles: stores the detailed user information.
Profile synchronisation service: synchronises user profile information with external directory services such as active directory domain services.
Audience: enables you to target content to a specific set of user membership.
My site host: Stores of the user personal sites aka my sites.
My sites: user personal sites.
In order to configure the user profile service application:
- Create a service account for the service application
- Grant the farm admin account replicating directory changes permission
- Register the service account as a managed account
- Start the user profile service instance
- Create the user profile service instance
Once the user profile synchronisation service is provisioned properly, you need to configure the active directory import. There are two import modes:
Active directory import: This method enables you to import user information from AD DS into SharePoint user profile properties.
External identity manager synchronisation: SharePoint Server 2013 was bundled with the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Sync service to support complex user profile synchronisation scenarios with different identity providers.
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