How to search people?

Question

I want to be able to search users like I search documents in my site. I know this is possible, I have used it over a several Sharepoint sites. But I couldn't get it working for my site.

I don't need My Site feature. All I want is to be able to search and view profiles of users.

Could you please give direction to this poor newbie?

Answer 1

I think this link will help you http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-people-search-lessons-learned-covering-basics/

Answer 2

If you are interested in using a coded solution you can look at using a FullTextSearchQuery also:

FullTextSqlQuery q = new FullTextSqlQuery(ServerContext.Current);
q.ResultTypes = ResultType.RelevantResults;
q.QueryText = "SELECT UserName, Email, PreferredName FROM SCOPE() WHERE \"scope\" = 'People' AND Department = 'IT'";

ResultTableCollection tables = q.Execute();
ResultTable results = tables[ResultType.RelevantResults];

Stolen from here.