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On 18th of May I attended the conference on SharePoint 2010 where I gave a presentation about Activity Feed functionality in SharePoint 2010. The conference was held in Moscow. If you can speak Russian please look at a video with my presentation here http://rusug.net/News/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=42 :-) Who can’t speak Russian please find my presentation in English here

http://www.lightningtools.com/stuff/SharePoint-2010-Activity-Feed.pptx

In this post I’d like to tell about my first demo from presentation. It shows default SharePoint 2010 Activity Feed which track all tags, notes, colleagues, profile update and so on. You are able to track only those activities you have selected in your My Site Web site.

1. Open “My Site” web site under any user (in our case it will be GALAXY\nick.swan), open “My profile” page, click “Edit my profile” and make sure that your default activities are ticked.

   
   
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2. Now we need to add a colleague for GALAXY\nick.swan. In order to do that click “Colleagues” tab on the “My profile” page and add a colleague. His name is GALAXY\dmitry.kaloshin in our case.

   

3. Since Activity Feed is off by default in a User Profile service application. To turn on this feature, a member of the Farm Administrators group must configure the User Profile service Activity Feed timer job. In order to do that open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, click “Monitoring” on the quick launch and click “Review job definitions” in the “Timer Jobs” section then.

   

4. Click “User Profile Service – Activity Feed Job” in the list of timer jobs and click “Enable” button on the “Edit Timer Job” page.

   

5. Now we may open for example default “Home” page under GALAXY\dmitry.kaloshin and do some actions being tracked by GALAXY\nick.swan. For example click “Tag and Notes” in the top-right corner of the page

   

6. Enter any text and click “Save” button.

   

7. Enter any note and click “Post” button.

   

8. Now open “My Site” web site under GALAXY\dmitry.kaloshin, open “My profile” page, click “Edit my profile” and do any change. For example enter some test in “Ask me about” edit box (BDC MetaMan in our case) and click “Save and Close” button

   

9. Click “Colleagues” tab on the “My profile” page and add a colleague to GALAXY\dmitry.kaloshin. His name is GALAXY\brett.lonsdale in our case.

   

10. Now open “My Site” web site under GALAXY\nick.swan, open “My newsfeed” page. You may see that all activities done by GALAXY\dmitry.kaloshin (“Tagging by my colleague”, “Note Board post”, “Profile update”, “New colleague”) are shown on the page.

    

11. Also all consolidated activities are available through ATOM feed using such URL http://mysitehost/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?consolidated=true">/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?consolidated=true">http://<mysitehost>/_layouts/activityfeed.aspx?consolidated=true

    

Hope this post explains a way to stay informed from anywhere. If you have any questions or feedback/ideas please send them over to support@lightningtools.com.

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