Configure User Profile Properties

SharePoint 2010 supports customizing the details about users that are imported into user profiles by modifying the properties defined by the User Profile service. If your organization has created custom attributes in Active Directory, those attributes can be mapped onto custom properties in the user profile and imported along with the built-in attributes. SharePoint 2010 also supports the new capability of exporting property values from the user profile to update the attributes in Active Directory.

Configuring a Property for Import

You may need to modify the import settings of an existing property to change the attribute that the data is drawn from or to have it import from a different synchronization connection. ...

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