To use only SPUser objects isn’t always sufficient. To get other properties we have to retrieve user profiles. Giles Hamson gives an example how to get and how to update user profile properties with powershell. Here is an example how to get all work phones: $url = "http://intranet/" $site = Get-SPSite $url $context = Get-SPServiceContext $site $profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($context) $profiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator() while ($profiles.MoveNext()) { $userProfile = $profiles.Current $name = $userProfile.

In my previous post I needed the accound id of the current user for posting new list items. To retrieve the id, we can push this to the client from the code behind, or get the current user using Client Object Model. To provide a more generic way we can write a js function which get the current user. But we must even provide some callback functionality, otherwise we don’t know if the operation was successful or not.

Want to hide my site link without disabling social features. Well, the simplest way to do it is to use css: #mp1\_0\_0\_Anchor { display: none; } ```If you want to hide my profile instead, just hide #mp1\_0\_1\_Anchor: #mp1_0_1_Anchor { display: none; } .ms-MenuUIUL li[text=‘My Site’] { display: none;} ##### Disable the my profile feature An even better solution is maybe to disable the ability to change the profiles. [Just remove the permission to "user personalization.