Hi Jeremy,
I came across some information and remembered your post. You are correct in that MOSS User Profiles can only import OOB from AD or LDAP (master connection). The BDC can only be configured only as a secondary connection. This renders User Profiles useless when building Forms Based Authentication solutions. Check out the “User Profile Imports” section HYPERLINK "http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx#MOSSFBAPart3_UserProfile"http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977430.aspx#MOSSFBAPart3_UserProfile I don’t know if this will suit your requirements but Microsoft and others did release a tool on CodePlex called Profile Import Tool that allows you to import users into User Profiles when running FBA. I don’t think it is specific to FBA applications. HYPERLINK "http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbox"http://www.codeplex.com/sptoolbox HYPERLINK "http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-1-SharePoint_2007_Utility_-2_-_PI_-_Utility_to_Import-Export_actual_user_profiles.aspx"http://blah.winsmarts.com/2007-1-SharePoint_2007_Utility_-2_-_PI_-_Utility_to_Import-Export_actual_user_profiles.aspx cheers Clayton James From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Thake Sent: Thursday, 24 April 2008 11:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzMOSS] SharePoint 2007 SSP User Profile Import Connections Limitations The organisation I am working for at the moment has an Active Directory set up of Users and Contacts. Running a ldifde query to output all Users and Contacts (below) provides me a list of 936 items. ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(|(objectClass=User)(objectClass=Contact)))" If I use this query within the Import Connection in the SSP in Central Administration . HYPERLINK "http://wss.made4the.net/Lists/Posts/Attachments/668/image_2.png"image When I start a full import I only receive 894 user profiles. HYPERLINK "http://wss.made4the.net/Lists/Posts/Attachments/668/image_4.png"image This coincides with if I run, although I only get 892. ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))" So it looks like it is just ignoring the Contact's. Running: ldifde -f usersindomain.csv -r "(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))" ...returns 44 items. 892 + 44 = 936 which makes sense, but who are the other 2 User Profiles being imported? Looking at the User Profile Crawl Log I receive errors: HYPERLINK "http://wss.made4the.net/Lists/Posts/Attachments/668/image_6.png"image So basically it appears that it cannot support this objectClass. This is a shame because I am really pushing our organisation to use Out of the Box functionality as much as possible for various reasons. Customising this would require managing the Contacts in Active Directory using the API and maintaining that they stay in sync with the the User Profiles Repository within SharePoint. This means designing, developing, testing and maintaining yet another application on top of the SharePoint platform. My understanding of Business Data Catalogue (BDC) functionality is that it can only extend on a base subset of profile data. So you can crawl in from Active Directory the Users and if there are properties stored about that User in another repository outside of Active Directory, you can match using an identifier and update the property in the User Profile. It cannot create "Users" that exist in the secondary repository mapped by BDC that are not in Active Directory, it's purely an extension. If anyone knows a solution for this please feel free enlighten me ;-) Thanks, Jeremy Thake ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1476 - Release Date: 31/05/2008 12:25 PM No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 269.24.4/1476 - Release Date: 31/05/2008 12:25 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzMOSS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com
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