While it might be nice to have users keep their information up-to-date in their profile, many times companies and organizations like to keep Active Directory (AD) (or an employee database that may feed AD) as the main source for user information. Therefore, in SharePoint, they may not want the user population to be able to edit their profile.
Navigate to Central Administration and click on Manage Service Applications under the Application Management section:
On the Service Applications page, scroll down and click on the User Profile Service Application link:
Navigate to Central Administration and click on Manage Service Applications under the Application Management section:
The Manage Profile Service: User Profile Service Application page appears. On this page click on Manage User Permissions within the People section:
The Permissions for User Profile Service Application dialog appears.
Within the Permissions dialog, you may add users and change their permissions accordingly. Do disable editing of profiles, select the All Authenticated Users entries and then uncheck the Follow People and Edit Profile option:
You may disable the creation of personal sites (My Sites) as well as tags and notes usage here also. Click OK once the modifications are completed.
Guess what?? This doesn't work!
If Create Personal Site is checked, users may edit their profile regardless if the Follow People and Edit Profile is checked. So the only way you can turn this off is if you uncheck Create Personal Site as well as Follow People and Edit Profile.
