Configuration Tab (Office SharePoint Server)

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Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2008-08-25

The Configuration tab of the Replication Engine is used by the administrator to configure profile data replication settings. The account running the service has Manage user profiles permissions on the Shared Services Provider (SSP) of the source and destination servers.

The elements of this tab are described as follows.

Source Server section

  • Source URL
    Specifies the URL of the SSP MySite Web application. The Source URL value can be auto-populated to other fields when you click Apply.
  • Change Token
    Lets the Replication Engine retrieve the change token of source server and display it in this field. When data in a user profile is changed, it is logged in a configuration database. An example of a change is when a user goes to their profile page and edits either the About Me or Skills property. The change log is uses UserProfileChangeWebService. Incremental replication checks the source for new changes on regular basis using the UserProfileChangeWebService and a change token (for example, ChangeToken=“1;3894;07/25/2006 21:33:17”;).
  • Refresh
    Retrieves the change token of source server.

Destination Servers section

  • Destination URL(s)
    Specifies the URLs to which the Replication Engine should push profile data. Typically, they are the URLs of the destination My Site host sites. To change the destination URL list, click Add, Edit or Delete.
  • Add
    Adds a URL specified in the text box to the Destination URL(s) list.
  • Edit
    To change a destination URL, you must select a URL from the Destination URL(s) list, edit the URL in the text box, and then click Edit for the changes to take effect.
  • Delete
    Deletes a URL from the list. To delete a URL from the list, you must select a URL from the Destination URL(s) list, and then click Delete.

General section

  • User Domain(s)
    Specifies the Active Directory user domains associated with the source. Use this field to identify for which users (based on domain) to replicate profile data, for example, Contoso.

    Note

    The User Domain(s) list only applies to full replication.

  • Add
    Adds a user domain specified in the text box to the User Domain(s) list.
  • Edit
    To change a user domain, you must select a user domain from the User Domain(s) list, edit the URL in the text box, and then click Edit for the changes to take effect.
  • Delete
    Deletes a URL from the list. To delete a user domain from the User Domain(s) list, select a user domain from the User Domain(s) list, and then click Delete.
  • Incremental Replication interval (seconds)
    Specifies the time span in seconds that the Replication Engine should wait before querying the source for changes to replicate. The range is between 1 and 10,000. The default value is 5.
  • Wait time between replication failures (seconds)
    Specifies the time span, in seconds, that the Replication Engine should wait before contacting the destination with changes to replicate (after receiving a failure on the first attempt). After a second failure, the Replication Engine captures the failure in the Windows Event Log, for example, (IncrementalRecoveryReplicator/3313). The range is between 1 and 10,000. The default value is 300. The event ID 3313 represents an error and event ID 1121 represents an informational message.

Properties to replicate section

The items in this section display the list of properties available for replication. There are two editable columns, Replicate and Source. The other columns are available just as metadata about the property.

  • Property Name
    Specifies the name of the property. Static.
  • Display Name
    Specifies the display name of the property. Static.

  • Replicate
    Select this check box to indicate which properties should be replicated by the Replication Engine.

    Note

    You should perform user profile imports on all source and destination SSPs before replicating. This will insure that you are only replicating the data you need and avoid from having to use the Replication Engine to replicate data from a directory source such as Microsoft Active Directory.

  • Source
    Identifies the source of the profile data as either coming from the user directly or provided through a feed. The list has two source types, User and Feed. User indicates that the property is mastered with the user and Feed indicates the property is mastered as a data feed, such as a Business Data Catalog import. This setting is used by incremental replication to determine how the profile data should be replicated. Marking properties as Feed helps identify properties that are mastered in the current (source) SSP for all users, regardless of which SSP the user’s profile record is considered to be mastered. Typically, values for those properties are not populated by the user. Values for properties identified as user-provided will be replicated to all destinations except for the destination containing the user’s master profile record; as identified in the trusted My Sites host locations list. For properties marked as user-provided, the master profile record is considered the source of the information and therefore does not need to have the information replicated back to it. For additional information about the Feed value, see User Profile Replication Engine (Office SharePoint Server).

    Note

    Remember to save changes by clicking Apply before replicating.

  • Multi-Valued
    Indicates whether this is a multi-value field. This column is not interactive.
  • Type
    Specifies the property type, which is pulled directly from the profile store when the Retrieve Property List button is clicked.
  • Choice List
    Specifies if property has choice lists enabled, which is pulled directly from the profile store when the Retrieve Property List button is clicked. Choice List is currently defaulting to No, even for properties where it is enabled. If the value of this field is important to your scenario, then check the user profile store of the source before replicating.
  • Total
    Specifies the total number of configurable properties. The total number will be two less than the total number of properties reflected in the Shared Services Provider Administration Web site. The two missing properties are AccountName and GUID. AccountName is the master account of the user profiles and will be replicated to the destination. The value of GUID is auto-generated by Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 (SP1) and will be different from the one in source.
  • Retrieve Properties List
    Retrieves the user properties list from the source server by using the Web service.
  • Apply
    Saves configuration data to a configuration file that will be read by other tabs. If there is a full or incremental replication running, the data would not be automatically populated to the tab of a running job. This is done as the user should know the status of the running job instead of the new configuration data.
  • Restore
    Discards the unsaved changes and restores previously saved data.

Remarks

All changes in this tab are not applied to other tabs until Apply is clicked.

If there are tasks running in other tabs, new changes made on this tab will not be applied until the tasks are re-started. For example, say you make some changes on Configuration tab and click Apply while a full replication operation is running. On Full Replication tab, the changes are not applied. When you stop full replication, a message is displayed, saying that the configuration is changed. The changes will then populate to the Full Replication tab when you restart the operation.

See Also

Concepts

Full Replication Tab (Office SharePoint Server)
Incremental Replication Tab (Office SharePoint Server)
Recovery Tab (Office SharePoint Server)