Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Problem with Audiences

Daniel Barton — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 00:24:45 GMT

Greg, I'm having a problem getting audiences to work on MOSS 2007 Beta 2. I know I need to upgrade to RTM so if this is a bug with Beta 2 let me know.

When I try to create an audience it takes me to the first page where I enter the audience name, description and owner. When I hit "Ok" to proceed I get the following error: "This page is accessible only from an SSP admin site."

Any ideas?

Thanks, Daniel

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

MSCOM.NET — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:01:27 GMT

I am trying to use Content Query List Web part with Audience Filtering to show items from a list

List type = Annoucements

Content type Group = List Content Type

Content Type = Annoucements

It works fine of defined audiences but not for Sharepoint Group. Is it supposed to work like this or i left any configuration step somewhere.

Thanks,

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Michael Goodloe — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:08:48 GMT

Help: Once I configure the SSP the URL fails to load any content for the SSP page. What should I do to resolve?

Using the full SP 2007 release (not Beta Tech Refres)

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Nidhi Seth — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:32:24 GMT

I started the full crawl, then realised that it imported disabled users also, thus stopped the crawl and added a filter to eliminate disabled users. But when I started full import again , it missed a lot of users stating that "deleted by Gatherer as this object was not found in the last full import". Please suggest can I get the remaining users in SharePoint.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

David Marsh — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 13:11:03 GMT

I am overriding the ViewFieldsOverride property in the Content Query Web Part to return just the fields I want. The CQWP does not want to return fields that are of type LookupMulti? Does anyone know if this is possible? I am almost sure I have the right field type. I have also tried the CommonViewFields property with myfieldname and field type of LookupMulti but it also does not work. Any help would be appreciated. eg. <property name="ViewFieldsOverride" type="string"><![CDATA[<FieldRef Name="Title" Nullable="True" Type="Text"/><FieldRef Name="Categories" Nullable="True" Type="LookupMulti"/>]]></property>

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Greg Mattox — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:57:53 GMT

Below are responses to questions/comments above.

Problem with Audiences - by Daniel Barton

Response:

Yes there is a bug in beta2 related to SSP admin pages. This has been fixed for RTM.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 - by MSCOM.NET

Response:

It should work for Audiences, DLs & SharePoint Groups. As long as the SharePoint Group is in the same site collection as the content you’re targeting it should work. Are you able to target the items using SharePoint groups?

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 - by Michael Goodloe

Response:

Are you sure the account you’re using has site collection admin rights to the SSP and rights to the service you’re trying to administer? For pages such as the Manage user profiles page, you will need to have the manage user profiles right given under personalization services permissions.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 - by Nidhi Seth

Response:

Sounds like there is something wrong with the filter you’re using. The deleted by gather message means according to your filter (query) we cannot find this person in AD so we’ll delete them assuming that you no longer want a profile for this person or they’re no longer in AD.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007 - by David Marsh

Response:

Can’t really help much with this one as the Content Query Web part is more related to publishing. Check for updated help content on the Content Query web part.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Jason Noble — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 07:29:57 GMT

In the very last step you state that this daily process is configurable...where? can I set it to run more often?

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Goran Husman — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:54:29 GMT

How can I change the schedule for updating Office links? Can it be manually forced?

And thanks for excellent info!!

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Greg Mattox — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 03:42:07 GMT

The registry key that controls the frequency is here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingFrequency

However if you're trying to update it for everyone you should use group policy and place it here:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policy\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingFrequency

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Mart — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 06:04:18 GMT

I am having a problem with search permissions, users can access everything, the NTFS permissions are not working

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Junaid Raza — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:10:19 GMT

Great Post, I have one question, i have MOSS 2007 portal with SSP and a lot of MySites and many workspace and otehr sites in Portal, some inheriting rights from parent some having custom authentication. Is there any way in MOSS 2007 RTM to reset all the rights in all portal sites to something like 'Factory Default' ?

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Anu — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 07:28:16 GMT

Whether it is possible to do Audience targeting at page level(some pages should be access only by admin and manager) rather than content level of a page

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cafearizona — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 06:18:25 GMT

I want to turn off the wiki and blog creation capability of the mysite. Can I do that with a feature staple. The applications may want to turn it back on after phase I deployment. I see the capibility in the top level sites...but not the mysites. Thanks for your consideration.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Bob — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:24:03 GMT

I've configured Published links to Office client applications as per your instructions. When I go into an Office 2K7 appplication like Word and in the save diaglog box under My SharePoint sites there are no links showing up.

My audiences have been created and compiled. They are working in other parts of the portal. So I can confirm that my audiences are setup and working. I have one ShareServices configure.

Can you also be more specific as to how I change the update frequency via the following registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingFrequency

Can seem to make sence of the extisting value.

Thanks,

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

williep — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:21:58 GMT

Does anyone know why a Full Import in MOSS 2007 doesn't update the manager's field when it's the only field that's been changed? The only obvious difference between the other fields that get updated is the managers field has a reference type and the others are string.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

BaileyC — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:47:08 GMT

Is there a way to manually re-start the service for Office in order to get the Sharepoint tab to show up? I really dont feel like waiting 24 hours to start my testing... anyone know?

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Jean St.Godard — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:01:33 GMT

I have an issue when creating rules for my audiences, I'm trying to make a rule based on groups but the AD groups don't show up.

Any ideas how to fix this.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Mehul — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:30:58 GMT

Hi i am not able to find out Content Query Web Part from the list of all the web part

so could you help me out in this regards

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shah-mehul — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:35:44 GMT

I am not able to find out Content Query Web Part in the list of the webpart while creating new webpart

so sould help me out in this regards

Mehul

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Bob — Thu, 17 May 2007 06:24:49 GMT

G'day

I'm playing with the User Profile import tool trying to import users from an ADAM store. Since I had no luck, I thought I'd make sure it was working for AD, and then converted the import source to apply a filter - which also worked, but doesn't remove all the users I imported last time. I don't fancy manually deleting 50 items at a time 100 times (5000 users), but I might have to (this was a limitation in 2003) ... so is there another way (short of hacking the db) of doing this via a GUI? I thought I'd check the web service reference (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa981571.aspx) but it doesn't appear to support Deletes ...

Thanks

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Ole — Tue, 29 May 2007 16:07:37 GMT

Hi,

I am currently working on that "Published links to Office client applications" feature. I just added a link to that list but on the client side nothing happened. On the "My SharePoint sites" tab only the My Site will appear, not any other site.

On my SharePoint server there is no registry key as described above.

Can you provide me with some more details regarding the configuration and debugging with that feature?

Thanks

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Raghu Iyer — Thu, 31 May 2007 22:15:19 GMT

How can we delete MySite of a particular user ? Is that possible?

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Olaf — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:19:25 GMT

Hi,

I just tried to setup the links to office clients. Unfortunately only the mysite link will apper in the dialogs. Not any other link being configured in the central administration will be shown up.

So I checked the configuration with this blog posting once again. I was waiting two days for the links to appear (because of the service that will run only once a day, as mentioned above). The next step was to take a look at the registry settings. But on my machine that is running very well there is no registry key like HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingFrequency.

Are there any other reasons for this misbehaviour known or any knowledge base entries regarding this topic?

Thanks

ISSUE - Outlook/SharePoint Interop - Documents won't sync to Outlook

SharePoint without religion is lame — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:33:58 GMT

Issue : One of our customers was seeing an issue wherein site users migrated from v2 to v3 were unable

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Hima — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:10:49 GMT

I am unable to see Content Query Web Part from available webparts in MOSs 2007.

Do I need to change any settings for that?

Opening Sharepoint published InfoPath forms in browser

Michael Goodloe — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 06:56:25 GMT

I have several Infopath form published to Sharepoint. On some workstations the form links sent by notifications in email, open in what I prefer, in browser mode. Yet on other workstations, they only try to launch the form with Infopath.

Is there a workstion setting to be configured that controls this?

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Lisa Coombs — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:16:55 GMT

I have configured SharePoint Server 2007 and successfully imported my users from Active Directory. I followed your instructions for setting up audiences and people search, but the People search function doesn't work. It appears that the location of the profile import is not being crawled. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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Jan Lange — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 14:34:01 GMT

If you are having trouble finding some of your security groups when adding them to an audience then change the User filter, under Search Settings to this: (|(objectCategory=group)(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)))

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Waresy — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:10:48 GMT

[Quote]

WillieP wrote:

I logged this as an issue with Microsoft and I've just been informed that

this is indeed a bug that will be fixed in the release of Service Pack 1 -

which is scheduled for release in Q4 2007 (Hopefully November).

The only work around at the moment is to change another attribute in AD

along with the manager attribute.

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sgdave@ambac.com — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 18:12:52 GMT

for the picture field, I am using the www field in AD. But, for some users the mappped field in sharepoint reverts to a different location and also ends up changing the field in AD, when.

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Emanuele — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:49:44 GMT

Hi all, I'm a newbie of MOSS 2007, I have to synchronize the "AD distribution groups" with the MOSS Grops (I have to copy the distribution groups from AD to MOSS 2007).

I've just finished my first custom application, I need to allow the users to search for the same groups they find in AD in the "people and grops" field I put in my MOSS application.

Does anybody have some tips for me?

Thank you in advance,

Emanuele

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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:29:41 GMT

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2367925&SiteID=1

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Mahendar — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:06:32 GMT

We have been trying to create an Audince and rules based on the windows secuirty Groups, but i dont see SGs ( Our SGs are ccreated with no alias, they just have the display name) in the list or in the search. I cannot see them in the users list after importing the profiles.

I have used below filter to import profiles.

(|(objectCategory=group)(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)))

Can someone help me on this? is there any other setting i need to set to appear all my SGs?

Thanks a lot for help.

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Don Woods — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 22:06:54 GMT

Hi all,

I'm facing a weird problem when I'm trying to use forms authentication with Sharepoint. I've created a custom Membership provider and I've configured Sharepoint to use this membership provider. Authentication works fine and then to authorize the users to enter the SHarepoint site, I create the users in SHarepoint and add them to the "Viewer" group. I use the following code:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite(this.Page.Request.Url.ToString()))

{

using (SPWeb thisWeb = site.OpenWeb())

{

thisWeb.AllowUnsafeUpdates = true;

SPUser newUser = thisWeb.EnsureUser(<username>);

newUser.Email = <user-email>;

newUser.Name = <full user name>;

newUser.Update();

thisWeb.SiteGroups["Viewers"].AddUser(newUser);

thisWeb.Update();

}

I noticed that I cannot fill in any more attributes using this method. I then tried to use the UserProfileManager class to update the user attruibutes of this user. However, I cannot locate the newly created user. I'm using this code:

using (SPWeb oWebsite = SPContext.Current.Site.OpenWeb("/"))

{

SPUserCollection collUsers = oWebsite.SiteUsers;

foreach (SPUser oUser in collUsers)

{

Response.Write("<b>"+SPEncode.HtmlEncode(oUser.Name) + "</b><BR>");

}

My problem is, how do I create users and also assign attribute values(like phone,address etc. ) ?

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Dan — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 14:56:07 GMT

I find your site very useful for importing audiences etc.

I am trying to create a personalised homepage and I tried unsuccessfully to link 'Current User Filter'webpart to 'My Inbox'webpart. Ideally, I would like to be able to display a greeting to the user and their email, on the same personalised page.

The 'Connections'feature in those two webparts, are preventing me, from doing this.

Is there a solution to this problem?

Regards,

Dan

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Manjit — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:02:07 GMT

"Note: The service that updates the client runs daily, this is configurable, so if you don't see the link wait at least 24 hours"

The above line is mentioned in your article above, but I am not able to understand which service can be configured so that we should not wait for 24 hrs and on which machine is that service available.

Hope to see a reply soon, as this is Urgent for me.

Thanks.

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Nigel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 11:33:50 GMT

I am receiving an error when I import user profiles. I have checked all required import connection settings and all seems ok. But when I run the import it seems to fail giving the following error in the log.

"The format of the specified domain name is invalid."

Thanks in Advance

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fracop — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:24:05 GMT

"Note: The service that updates the client runs daily, this is configurable, so if you don't see the link wait at least 24 hours"

Clear the following registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingTimestamp and then restart Office 2007. Next time you do file Open/Save As the list of available My SharePoint Sites will be refreshed.

Also if you have added Document libraries as Published Links make sure you only specify "http://servername/sitename/library" as URL and NOT "http://servername/sitename/library/Forms/AllItems.aspx"

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sou — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:52:08 GMT

Hi,

I’m trying to import user profile information from Active Directory to MOSS 2007.

Then I want to know the status whether the import succeeds or fails 2 times or more in the past.

Does anyone know about this??

Thanks.

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Charles — Sun, 04 May 2008 11:42:10 GMT

I have installed MOSS 2007 Enterprise. However, i do not get the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingTimestamp and consequently cannot see SharePoint libraries in Excel. Do I have to create these keys manually on the client machine? Also I cannot find information about the LinkPublishingFrequency registry value: it's not in my registry either. should I create it?

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bob e — Thu, 15 May 2008 18:34:32 GMT

Here is a strange one.

One of our users accidentally deleted a site. To get the site back we restored the entire site collection to a temporary web application (port 7777). Once the site was exported/imported back in its place the temporary application was deleted. Unfortunately all the "My SharePoint Site" links have been changed to a path on the deleted port (intranet/7777/sitename/default.aspx. We don't know how to correct this. Obviously this presents a lot of confusion as users get an error message.

re: Getting Started with Personalization in MOSS 2007

Thumesh — Thu, 29 May 2008 00:38:52 GMT

Hi,

Could you please tell me how we can automatically display the sites under My site tab which are created in My site.

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Preston Park — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:42:23 GMT

I have cleared the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Common\Portal\LinkPublishingTimestamp key, deleted the key, deleted the SSP and re-created it, thrown a shoe at it - the old links will not go away and the new ones will not show.

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Jaxy — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:58:58 GMT

Looks like I am having a unique issue here as no one mentioned it above..

For some reason I cannot see the My SharePoint Sites tab when I do Open or Save As in Word 2007. I there anything I need to do to make it available in word 2007?

Thanks,

Jaxy

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Kevin — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 01:51:55 GMT

I can't get my pepole search result to display the Active Directory's manager field, the value always shows blank in the search result. However the user profile (in shared services) shows values. Any idea?

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nrawlinson — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:16:36 GMT

I've got the document library audience targetting working as described, but the functionality from the Content Query WebPart is not good, as far as I can see.

A user doesn't get the option to edit the document, it only opens read only. From the document library itself, the user is prompted whether he/she wants to edit the doc.

Is there something I'm missing or does enabling audience targetting make SharePoint less efficient from the user's viewpoint?

A SharePoint adventure in "Publish Links to Office"

edhild's WebLog — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:48:29 GMT

So I had a need to do a little thing such as get a link to a MOSS site to show up in the "My SharePoint