SharePoint Audiences
One of the values of profiles is to understand your users so you can fulfill their needs. SharePoint Portal Server takes this an extra step with the concept of audiences. Users can belong to one or more audiences so they can receive targeted content. Web parts and content can be mapped to audiences. For instance, your company might have offices in 16 cities. You could use audiences to refine the company news section to highlight items of interest to local offices.
SPS uses rules to assign profiles to an audience and provides two ways to map people to rules. First, you can link an audience to a Windows security group. This approach makes it quite easy to segment users with the information already contained in their Windows ...
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