Microsoft® SharePoint® Server 2007 Bible

Searching for People

As mentioned earlier in this chapter, MOSS 2007 enables people to find other people based on their expertise and role in the organization. With careful planning, your deployment will allow easy discovery of other people within teams and around your organization. In addition to creating these relationships through common properties, you can utilize SharePoint Search to find the people you are looking for. By default, the following methods of finding people are enabled:

• The People search scope: This is a search scope that limits search results to the public profiles in the user profile store for the SSP. Regardless of the search terms used, only people who match those terms appear in search results.

• The People tab: In the Search Center the People tab provides options for finding people. You can find people by name or related subject, or by people-related properties such as Title and Department.

• Advanced search: Allows you to find people by searching specific user profile property values. Every user profile that matches the value of the selected profile will appear in search results.

• From values for user profile properties: You can find people without explicitly searching by clicking values for users to find other users with the same value for the property. These properties can appear in user profiles, user information lists, SharePoint lists, or in general search results.

• Refined searches: You can refine search results for a people search to include only results ...