So you fire up your new SharePoint 2010 server, build out your site(s) and give users access. Then about a month later some users get an email from your SharePoint Server. You think to yourself… “I didn’t set anything up to send emails.” You grab a copy of the email and you see SharePoint is sending out colleague and keyword suggestions to some of your users. Yeah, this timer job is turned on by default. I like the idea behind this type of data being sent out, but only for certain environments and when I ask it to. I would never use this in a DEV or QA server. As you can guess, one of the first steps when I fire up a new server now is to disable the job below…
User Profile Service – My Site Suggestions Email Job
