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hiding people from pick list in SharePoint
As a policy, for audit records etc., when someone leaves the company - they are not removed from share point. Is there a way to make it so they are not shown or available on the people picker list?
I'm not experienced on SharePoint so keep answers simple please.
Thanks,
Brian
I'm not experienced on SharePoint so keep answers simple please.
Thanks,
Brian
In MOSS 2007, after a full crawl runs with AD, any profile that exists in MOSS but wasn't picked up in AD will be marked as "missing". Another timer job will eventually run and delete every profile marked as missing.
So if you are deleting ex-employees from AD, you should be good (if you are running full profile imports). If you are only disabling them, you may need to modify your profile import connection to exclude disabled accounts.
So if you are deleting ex-employees from AD, you should be good (if you are running full profile imports). If you are only disabling them, you may need to modify your profile import connection to exclude disabled accounts.
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Users are disabled.
So should we be deleting their profiles? Because if I'm reading this right MOSS will look for profiles and not necessarily whether they have an active account.
Seems backwards to me.
So should we be deleting their profiles? Because if I'm reading this right MOSS will look for profiles and not necessarily whether they have an active account.
Seems backwards to me.
It depends on how your profile import is set up. Are you importing ALL users, regardless of active or disabled? If so, MOSS doesn't care if the user is active or disabled, the user profile will remain untill the AD accoutn is deleted.
However, if you have your profile import set to only import active users, as soon as you disable someone in AD, MOSS will eventually delete their profile in the SSP.
However, if you have your profile import set to only import active users, as soon as you disable someone in AD, MOSS will eventually delete their profile in the SSP.
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but if MOSS deletes their profile - does that delete them out of the database completely? Is there some KB article that describes the intended behavior?
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and if they remain the site collections level - then any audit type trail we need would be retained?
Going to have to test to be certain.
Going to have to test to be certain.
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what is the status of this?
User profiles can be scheduled for synchronization with AD. With user profile timer jobs are in place for each web application, your users should not be able to see resigned employees in the people picker list.