User information guidance (SharePoint#1282)

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+title: User information
+ms.date: 01/18/2018
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+# User information
+
+## Summary
+
+User profiles contain each user's personal information and enable you to search for and connect with people within your organization. User profiles are a core feature in Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint.
+
+## Available options
+
+### User information in Office 365
+
+_**Applies to:** Office 365_
+
+#### Related resources
+
+##### Articles
+
+- [Working with users in Microsoft Graph](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/api-reference/v1.0/resources/users)
+- [Work with user profiles in a SharePoint Multi-Geo tenant](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/multigeo-userprofileexperience)
+- [Adding custom app data to Microsoft Graph now in preview](https://dev.office.com/blogs/adding-customer-data-to-resources-in-Microsoft-Graph-preview)
+
+##### Videos
+
+- [Demystifying the Office 365 profile experience - BRK2127](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrhJmfAGQ5K81XQ8_od1iTg)
+
+##### Solutions
+
+- [Introducing the API for Bulk Updating Custom User Profile Properties for SharePoint Online](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/bulk-user-profile-update-api-for-sharepoint-online)
+
+##### Samples
+
+- [Microsoft Graph Connect Sample for ASP.NET 4.6 (REST)](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/aspnet-connect-rest-sample/blob/667aba34122950185f11fe80b7768cf642c9b407/README.md)
+- [Microsoft Graph Snippets Sample for AngularJS (REST)](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/angular-snippets-rest-sample)
+- [Microsoft Graph iOS Objective C Snippets Sample](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/ios-objectiveC-snippets-sample)
+- [Office 365 Android Microsoft Graph Snippets](https://github.com/microsoftgraph/android-java-snippets-rest-sample)
+- [Get incremental changes for users](https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/docs/concepts/delta_query_users)
+
+### SharePoint user profiles
+
+_**Applies to:** Office 365 and SharePoint Server_
+
+In SharePoint, user profiles represent SharePoint users. User profile properties represent information about the users and also about the properties themselves. For example, properties include the account name or email address of a user and the data type of a property. You can use the server object model to programmatically create, retrieve, and change user profiles, profile subtypes, and profile properties.+
+
+#### Related resources
+
+##### Articles
+
+- [Work with user profiles in SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/work-with-user-profiles-in-sharepoint)
+- [User profile manipulation in the SharePoint add-in model](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/user%20profile%20manipulation-sharepoint-add-in)
+- [User profiles REST API reference](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/10757ed1-6e86-474f-89e0-6dec6aa66a2b%28Office.15%29.aspx)
+- [Work with user profiles and organization profiles by using the server object model in SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/how-to-work-with-user-profiles-and-organization-profiles-by-using-the-server-obj)
+- [Get user identity and properties in SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/sp-add-ins/get-user-identity-and-properties-in-sharepoint)
+- [User segmentation in SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/general-development/user-segmentation-in-sharepoint)
+- [Pattern: Retrieving user data](https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Transformation/blob/master/InfoPath/Guidance/Patterns/Retrieving%20user%20data.md)
+- [User Personalization and OneDrive for Business Operations Using add-in model](https://github.com/OfficeDev/TrainingContent/tree/master/O3658/07%20User%20Personalization%20and%20OneDrive%20for%20Business%20Operations%20Using%20add-in%20model)
+
+##### Videos
+
+- [User Profile Bulk update API demonstration](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X_2T0SRUBk)
+
+##### Solutions
+
+- [User profile solutions for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint Online](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/user-profile-solutions-for-sharepoint)
+- [Upload user profile pictures sample add-in for SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/upload-user-profile-pictures-sample-app-for-sharepoint)
+- [Personalize search results sample add-in for SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/personalize-search-results-sample-app-for-sharepoint)
+- [Migrate user profile properties sample add-in for SharePoint](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/migrate-user-profile-properties-sample-app-for-sharepoint)
+- [UserProfile.MIMSync toolset](https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP-Tools/tree/master/Solutions/UserProfile.MIMSync)
+- [User Profiles PnP PowerShell cmdlets](https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/pnp_powershell/userprofiles-category)
+
+##### Samples
+
+- [User profile manipulation using CSOM](https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP/tree/dev/Samples/UserProfile.Manipulation.CSOM)
+- [User profile bulk property updater](https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP/tree/master/Samples/Core.BulkUserProfileUpdater)
+
+### Azure AD profile data
+
+_**Applies to:** Office 365_
+
+#### Related resources
+
+##### Articles
+
+##### Solutions
+
+- [Introducing the API for Bulk Updating Custom User Profile Properties for SharePoint Online](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/dev/solution-guidance/bulk-user-profile-update-api-for-sharepoint-online)
+
+##### Samples
+
+- [Use Azure RedisCache to Cache Office 365 User Profile Information in an Office 365 Add-in](https://github.com/SharePoint/PnP/tree/master/Samples/AzureAD.RedisCacheUserProfile)