Powershell: Creating and updating profile property

Hi Friends,

I have recently create a user profile property using power shell commands. I am just sharing the code i used to create and then edit the properties like description, privacy settings, display settings etc of the property.

Code to add/edit:

if ((Get-PSSnapin -Name Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null )
{
Add-PsSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell
}

[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("microsoft.sharepoint.portal")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("System.Web")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint.Taxonomy.dll")
function CheckNull($obj, $name)
{
if ($obj -eq $null)
{
Write-Host $name "is null" -ForegroundColor Red
return $true
}
return $false
}
$siteurl = "http://sp2010server/"
$site = Get-SPSite -Identity $siteurl -ErrorAction Stop
$ctx = [Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($site)
$upm = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ctx)
$upcm = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileConfigManager($ctx)
$comProp = $upm.Properties.Create($false)
$comProp.Name = "Company"
$comProp.DisplayName = "Company"
$comProp.Type = [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PropertyDataType]::StringSingleValue
$comProp.Length = 50
$comProp.PrivacyPolicy = [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.PrivacyPolicy]::OptIn;
$comProp.DefaultPrivacy = [Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.Privacy]::Public;
$comProp.IsVisibleOnViewer = $true;
$upm.Properties.Add($comProp)

I want to share some of the basic properties which you can edit while updating the property using Power shell.

• [string] $displayname : used if we want to change the display name under Property Settings.


• [int] $length: used to edit "Length" of the property value again under Property Settings.


• [string] $description: used to edit "Description" of the property value again under User Description.


• PrivacyPolicy: used to edit "Policy Settings" of the property value under Policy Settings.


• DefaultPrivacy: used to edit "Default Policy Settings"of the property value again under Policy Settings.


• [bool] $userOverridePrivacy: used to edit "User can override" of the property value again under Policy Settings.


• [bool] $isReplicable: used to edit "Replicable" of the property value again under Policy Settings.


• [bool] $isUserEditable: used to edit "Edit Settings" of the property


• [bool] $IsMultivalued: used to edit "Description" of the property value again under User Description.


• [bool] $isColleagueEventLog: used to edit "Show updates to the property in newsfeed" of the property value again under User Description.


• [bool] $isAlias: used to edit "Alias" of the property value under Search Settings.


• [bool] $isSearchable: used to edit "Indexed" of the property value again under Search Settings.


• [bool] $isVisibleOnEditor: used to edit "Show on the Editor Details Page" of the property value under Show Settings.


• [bool] $isVisibleOnViewer: used to edit "Show in the profile properties section of the user's profile page" of the property value again under Show Settings.


• [int] $maximumShown: used to edit "Show updates to the property in newsfeed" of the property value again under Show Settings.

Hope this information will be helpful.

Thanks for Time :)