How can I fire a query on User Profiles in the SP 2013

Question

I have to fetch the User Profiles list with filters like - First_Name starts with A or Department_Name = "Test" and get the count of those users and all users without Search Service/KQL. Simply I have to fire an query (Like- SQL/CAML) to get the list of users profiles. I have to implement this in the Custom WebPart.

Answer 1

Profile Manager Search method searches 'FirstName', 'LastName', 'PreferredName', 'UserName', 'Office', 'Title', 'Department', 'WorkEmail', 'SPS-SipAddress', and 'AccountName'. The method performs a "begins with" sort of search, so you get a match when the search pattern strings match the first characters in any of the searchable properties.

This is how you can search for anything starting with "A" programmatically:

using (SPSite site = new SPSite("https://spsite.yourcompany.com/"))
{
  SPServiceContext context = SPServiceContext.GetContext(site);
  UserProfileManager profileManager = new UserProfileManager(context);
  string searchPattern = "A";
  ProfileBase[] EmpSrchResults = profileManager.Search(searchPattern);
  foreach (ProfileBase EmpProfile in EmpSrchResults)
  {
      Console.WriteLine(EmpProfile.DisplayName);
  }
}   

Another alternative is to use PowerShell to get all your results filtered at once and write the results to a CSV file as shown below :

$siteUrl = "https://spsite.yourcompany.com/"
$outputFile = "D:\Shared\CSVProfiles\$(get-date -uformat '%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S-%p').csv"

$serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext -Site $siteUrl
$profileManager = New-Object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext);
$profiles = $profileManager.GetEnumerator() | Sort -property  @{Expression={$_["FirstName"]}} | ?{$_["FirstName"] -like "A*"}

#Following line will give you the count of the filtered results
$count=$profiles.Count

Write-Host "Exporting profiles" 

$collection = @()
foreach ($profile in $profiles) 
{  
 $profileData = "" | select "AccountName","FirstName", "LastName"
 $profileData.AccountName = $profile["AccountName"].Value
 $profileData.FirstName = $profile["FirstName"].Value
 $profileData.LastName = $profile["LastName"].Value
 $collection += $profileData
}

$collection | Export-Csv $outputFile -NoTypeInformation

Write-Host "Profiles Created Successfully"