Provision User Profile Service Application
The following are the steps for creating the User Profile
Service Application:
1.
Go to Central
Administration -> Application
Management -> Manage service
applications.
2.
Click on New
-> User Profile Service Application.
3.
Fill up the required information in the New User Profile Service Application
form with the following information:
4.
Go to Central
Administration -> System Settings
-> Manage services on this server.
5.
Start
the User Profile Service on the
application servers.
6.
Validate that the service is started.
7.
Using the Local
Users and Groups management console (lusrmgr.msc),
ensure that the farm admin account (svc_prdspfarmadmin)
is a local administrator in SPAS02. If not, go ahead and do this. Restart the machine after this step.
8.
Using the Local
Security management console, ensure that the farm admin account (svc_prdspfarmadmin) has log on locally rights. If not, go ahead and do this. Restart the machine after this step.
9.
Start
the User Profile Synchronization Service
onSPAS02.
10.
Wait until the service status is Started. It normally takes 2-3 minutes to provision everything.
During the creation of the User Profile Service Application,
you can specify the name of the MySites host site collection. If this doesn’t exist yet, you can use the
following steps:
1.
Go to Central
Administration -> Application
Management -> Manage web
applications.
2.
Click on New
to create the MySites web application.
3.
Complete the New Web Application form as follows:
4.
Once the web application has been created,
proceed to create the site collection.
5.
Complete the New Site Collection page as follows:
Note:
It is important to choose My Site Host
as the template.
6.
The last thing to do is to add personal as a managed path. The name of the managed path can be
changed. However for this production
build, personal was used. To do this, go to the Manage Web Applications page, select the MySites web
application, and click on Managed
Path.
7.
Type in personal
and click on the Add Path button.
8.
Once added, click on Ok.
