In this chapter, we will cover:
Creating new user profiles
Adding and configuring new profile properties
Bulk provisioning data into user profile properties
Creating, importing, and exporting managed metadata taxonomy terms
Enabling social rating on lists and libraries
Bulk tagging content and deleting tags in SharePoint
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...