Configure Employee Lookup

1.Configuring User Profile Import
1.1 From Central Administration, go to the Shared Services Administration site
1.2 Click on User Profile and Properties under User Profiles and Properties section.
1.3 Under Profile and Import Settings, click on Configure Profile Import

2.Defining a Data Connection
2.1 Click on View Import Connections in Configure Profile Import to define a source for the user profiles
2.2 Click on Create New Connection
2.3 In the Add Connection screen, input the following properties:
* Connection Settings
o Type: Active Directory
o Domain Name: <your domain name>
o Select Auto discover domain controller or Specify a domain controller (pick from drop down list)
o Port: 389 <default AD port>
o Time out (in seconds): 120 <default time out>
o Select Enable Server Side Incremental so that you can increase user profile import efficiency
* Search Settings
o Click on Auto Fill Root Search Base or specify yourself in the Search base
o User Filter: use this to specify which profiles are imported by using LDAP query
o Scope Level: are the user profiles imported only from the first level of the subtree or from the entire subtree?
o Page size: limit the amount of data that is imported for each page
o Page time out: limit the amount of time spent attempting to access a server that is not responding

3.Initiate User Profile Import
3.1 In User Profile and Properties, click on Import Schedule and set it up for anytime you require. Go back to User Profile and

Properties.
3.2 Click on Start Full Import. From here you can keep refreshing the screen to see the progress. This takes approx. 1 min per

100 user profiles (depending on your server).
3.3 Once complete, view the Import Log and filter to see if there were any errors.

4.Enabling the Employee Lookup Web Part Search
1. Go to Shared Services Administration for your SSP
2. Under Search section click on Search settings
3. On Configure Search Settings page click on Content sources and crawl schedules
4. On the Manage Content Sources page, click the arrow to pull up the context sensitive menu next to Local Office SharePoint

Server sites
5. In the drop menu click Start Full Crawl
6. Verify that crawl started (status changed to Full Crawl) and wait until crawl has completed (status should change to Idle)