Accessing UserProfile information Annonymously

Question

I am trying to run a piece code to figure out if a user has a mysite or not. Following is the code:

UserProfileManager profManager = new UserProfileManager();
UserProfile profile = profManager.GetUserProfile(Constants.MembershipProvider + ":" + username);
if (profile == null || profile.PersonalSite == null) {
      valueToReturn = false;
}

So the code works just fine when accessed under the context of a logged in user, but gets an access denied when trying to run annonymously. I tried wrapping the code with SPSecruity.RunWithElevatedPrevilege but to no avail.

Any idea how I can access the data for annonymous users?

Thanks.

Answer 1

let me see if i understand you correctly: if user is anonymous, does it make sense to check if it has a my site at all? It sure would have to share that site with alot of users :-)

hence you should avoid the call all together if user is anonymous.

several ways to see is user is anonymous. SPContext.Current.Site.Web.CurrentUser is one, another could be to wrap your call in an SPSecurityTrimmedControl and set target on SPBasePermissions or AuthenticationRestrictions.

hth Anders

Answer 2

The problem is that even when running using RunWithElevated is that the constructor of the UserProfileManager, internally is using the SPContext. Therefore it's causing to fail when executing your code.

Answer 3

Unless SharePoint is setup to run anonymously you cannot execute the web services anonymously. What you can do though is set the code to run under a specified account before you run the GetUserProfile statement.

Answer 4

Another thought is you could create a webservice that is your above code and then call that webservice and specify credentials from your anonymous page in the code behind.

In my experience anonymous and sharepoint can get very weird and unexpected sometimes.