Hiding some user profiles temporary from search

Question

I'm trying to find a way to hide a user profile in SharePoint temporary from the People search result.

What are the possible solutions?

Is it possible for me to set some kind of crawl rule to skip some user profiles based on a flag? or Can I lock a user profile?

Thanks, Siriwat

Answer 1

Do not know what do you mean saying lock a use profile! I prefer the first one, just add crawl rule. It is not different at all.

Answer 2

1. You can delete the user from the import source (AD, LDAP etc) and then recrawl. That will remove him (although thats more permenant than anything)
2. Depending on how good your XSLT is you can edit the results and you should be able to throw in an statement that looks at the username and show everyone but that user.
3. You can also remove the user programatically and recrawl, however, I'm pretty sure the user will show up again per the profile import schedule, which you can delay for however long you need to hide this user. I would put the code here but stackoverflows editor is absolutly abysmal. Give this blog post a shot.

Personally I recommend option 2 as you have the most control there, no need to compile anything, and no need to muck around with the SSP.

Answer 3

If the solution is temporary then go for editing the XSL template, If you want to remove the user permanently then add the crawl rules to exclude the specific user.

For removing a single user, adding a rule and re-crawling the AD will not scale up an also an added burden to your indexer.