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April 05
What’s new in the User Profile Service Application
by   sharepointblog@live.com   on  4/5/2012 9:20 AM
Category:  SharePoint

​The User Profile Service Application stores information about users in a centralized location used by SharePoint’s social computing features to support natural collaboration.  The User Profile Service Application is also required when provisioning My Site personal sites, enabling certain social computing features such as newsfeeds, and the creation and distribution of user profiles across server farms or sites. 

To learn more about the User Profile Service Application see also http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662538.aspx.
 
The User Profile Service Application is based on technologies provided through ForeFront Identity Manager which provides a comprehensive solution for identity and credential management and identity-based access policies.
 
To learn more about ForeFront Identity Manager see also http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/forefront/identity-manager.aspx.
 
Since RTM the User Profile Service Application has been incrementally improved through Cumulative Updates and Service Packs to improve both its performance and resiliency.  Recent improvements include:
 
  • Parallel SharePoint, Active Directory, and Business Connectivity Services import and export support
  • ForeFront Identity Manager performance improvements
  • Reduction of full table scans and indexing specific user properties
  • Batch import of Business Connectivity Services user properties
  • Removed automatic provisioning of users and groups to ILM MA
  • Programmatic cleanup of large run histories
  • Resolution of AD-Contact objects in ForeFront Identity Manager as opposed to SharePoint Server 2010
 
As a result of these improvements there has been a dramatic reduction of the time required to import user information into SharePoint.  For example, inside of Microsoft on the RTM version of SharePoint Server 2010 with 100,000 users our profile import duration for full sychronization commonly required 2 weeks to complete and 2-3 days to support an incremental synchronization.  This same scenario on SharePoint Server 2010 with the December 2011 Cumulative Update has been reduced to 120-140 hours for a full synchronization and 6 hours for an incremental synchronization.
 
If you’re experience delays in importing users and properties or are just looking to improve the security, reliability, and performance of your SharePoint 2010 environment we recommend installing the latest Cumulative Update or Service Pack.
 
Resources
 
Download SharePoint Server 2010 Service Pack 1
Download the SharePoint Server 2010 February 2012 Cumulative Update
 
 
Bill Baer
Senior Product Marketing Manager (Microsoft, SharePoint)

 

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great info

This is great info. I recently updated to the Dec CU and noticed much better results!
 on 4/7/2012 1:12 AM

120 hours still sounds a long time

In our SharePoint architecture a full user import with 75.000 users took 12 hours to complete with SP1 and without any CU's - 120 hours sounds still a long time to me...

It is a forest with 8 domains - don't know if this has an influence...
 on 4/10/2012 5:16 PM

Organisation Profiles??

Perhaps a little off topic but i'm curious know nonetheless..

I was wondering if you have taken advantage of organization profiles and if you haven't how do you go about organizing your departments\divisions?

Also, are there any new features related to organisation profiles in the pipeline?
 on 4/11/2012 3:42 AM

Share User Profile Service Support accross the WAN

What about allowing this service to e consumed across the WAN? or at least offering a better metric than <1ms latency
 on 5/12/2012 3:33 AM

Performance

Hello,

I am new to SharePoint. I worked with Data Warehouse Solutions in the last years.
Why does it take hours to import 100000 users from Active Directory?
Usually, we are processing millions of records in ETL processing in minutes (not in hours).

Why is UPS so slow?
It's difficult for me to explain that to my bosses.
I can't believe, that SharePoint is so crappy.
Can someone explain that?

Thanks

Janusch


 on 8/3/2012 3:55 PM

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