SharePoint 2010 Administrator Ramp-Up - Part 6
Service Application - BCS and User Profile - learn how to configure the Business Connectivity Service and the User Profile Service in SharePoint 2010.
What you'll learn
This course teaches you how to configure the Business Connectivity Service (BCS) and the User Profile Service in SharePoint 2010. You will learn about the architecture of the BCS and how to create external content types to connect to backend databases using SharePoint Designer 2010. You will also learn how to configure authentication for the BCS using the Secure Store Service. We review how to configure the User Profile Service to utilize features such as user profiles, audience targeting and MySites. The course also discusses how to configure the User Profile Synchronization Service to keep user profiles in sync with user account information in Active Directory.
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About the author
Ted Pattison is an author, instructor and co-founder of Critical Path Training (http://www.criticalpathtraining.com/Instructors/Pages/TedPattison.aspx), a company dedicated to education on SharePoint technologies. For the last five years Ted has worked with Microsoft’s Developer Platform Evangelism group researching and authoring SharePoint training material for early adopters. Ted started working with SharePoint 2010 in August of 2008 and since that time has led a series of 5-day training class... more