A question just came in from one of our customers and it’s not the first time, so thought I would share my edited response. The question went a bit like this :<\/p>\n
“Do I need to have the SharePoint User Profile Service running to use DocRead?”<\/em><\/p>\n When DocRead creates a Reading Task \u00a0for a user\u00a0(anywhere in the Farm) it will add that user to the\u00a0to the ‘Readership.Users’ table. This table is used as the basis for many things in DocRead including licensing.\u00a0So if your organisation has 5000 employees but only 50 of them have a Reading Task assigned to them, there will only be 50 users in that table (and 50 CALS required).<\/p>\n An organisation’s user accounts usually existing in Active Directory. In some cases they can exist in other stores, such as Extradium. Either way, the username and password given by that user store is utilised to logon to SharePoint. The first time a user logs in to SharePoint, some very basic information is brought into SharePoint and stored in an internal list within the site collection. This happens even without the User Profile Service even running<\/u>. (SharePoint Foundation works like this as it has no concept of a ‘User Profile Service’).<\/p>\nA quick primer on the SharePoint User<\/strong>\u00a0Profile Service<\/strong><\/h3>\n