User profiles in SharePoint 2010 allow for an entire new set of functionality. With user profiles, custom and out-of-the-box components can store user-specific information in a profile database along with other details about the user. System components can use user profile information to provide better and more personal experiences to users. In this chapter, we'll see how you can provision user profiles using PowerShell to prepopulate user information for your user profiles.
As you make a full use of SharePoint 2010 user profiles, you will see how extensible user profile functionality is and how you can take advantage of creating custom profile properties to store specific information about users in your system. In this chapter, we'll see how you can create your custom user profile properties and populate them with values.
Managed metadata is new feature in SharePoint 2010 allowing users to store centralized metadata terms. Since terms can be managed centrally and used anywhere...