Admin account appearing in People Search Results

Question

I have created a Staff Directory by using the "People Search Results" page available in SP 2010. I followed these instructions: http://www.chakkaradeep.com/post/Put-People-First-%E2%80%93-Building-a-Staff-Directory.aspx

The search results and refinements panel are both working fine.

The problem I have is that one of the admin accounts (setupAdmin) is appearing in the search results. I have tried configuring the UPS to exclude this account by editing the connection filters. The setupAdmin account does not have a first or last name in AD so I have set filters up for both givenName and sn:

givename is not present sn is not present

But after a Full Profile Sync and a Full Search Crawl the setupAdmin account still appears in the search results.

Does anyone have any ideas why and how I can resolve this please?

Nigel

Answer 1

You could add a filter to the UPS connection to remove accounts with the prefix of the SharePoint service accounts. For example, if your accounts are all "svc_SP*" you could have a filter that ignores those in the UPS sync, which would obviously prevent search from indexing the profile.

I tend to use my setup account as a test for MySites and UPS--obviously doing this would prevent that from being a possibility.

Edit: if you're going this route, you'd want your rule based off of the userPrincipalName (login).