People Search Interesting Customizing Information

The following blog lists some good information about SharePoint People Search, and some problems / limitations which you will probably encounter when extending the Out of the Box People Search functions:

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-people-search-lessons-learned-covering-basics/

Extending ... both programatically and not

http://blog.mastykarz.nl/sharepoint-people-search-lessons-learned-programmatically-running-search-queries/

Changing the stuff on the My Profile page:

http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog/archive/2009/03/05/SharePoint-User-Profiles-and-My-Sites.aspx

Programatically customizing Site Navigation in SharePoint 2007

http://www.toddbaginski.com/blog/archive/2007/12/26/how-to-programmatically-customize-site-navigation-in-wss-3.aspx

Nice detailed blog with lots of explanantion on how to customize programatically. Personally, we are looking at deleting all items in the Quick Launch, and possibly recreating them from scratch as necessary during the creation of a MySite as per Steve's blog here.

Adding Search Options in MOSS 2007 People Search

Although the Out of the Box People Search is quite nice, most clients would want to extend the people search with their own custom search options.

Fortunately, as with the adding of properties to the Advanced Search Box, this is fairly straightforward to achieve. The following article http://www.sharepointblogs.com/aaronrh/archive/2007/05/21/adding-additional-properties-to-the-moss-people-search.aspx explains how to do this.

Essentially the most important step is adding the following to the properties in the People Search WebPart:

<property name="NewProp" managedname="NewProp" profileuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:sharepoint:portal:profile:NewProp">