Activity Feed Settings

Activity Feed lets users add feeds of events to their My Site web sites. Feeds might give information about activities of their colleagues, such as updates to profile properties and creation of social tags and notes. Activity Feed does not enable tracking of activities that a user does not have permissions to see.

Activity Feed is off by default in a User Profile service application. To turn on this feature, a farm administrator must configure the User Profile service Activity Feed timer job. Follow these steps to turn on the Profile Service – Activity Feed Job:

  1. On the Central Administration site, click Monitoring from the Quick Launch.
  2. In the Timer Jobs section, click Review Job Definitions.
  3. Click User Profile Service ...

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