Can we Sync the “Contact Information” section inside the users' my-site from active directory

Question

I have accessed some my-sites for our users, and i find that each site have a section named "Contact Information" as follow:-

so i have these questions regarding the above:-

1) can we sync all these info or part of these info from active directory ?

2) now if users enter these info manually, and later on we manage to populate these info from active directory, then will the data entered by the users get overridden ??

Answer 1

Yes, you can. That is the purpose of the User Profile Synchronization Service. You need to configure the Import field mapping from AD to the User Profile. This is done in the User Profile Service Application | User Profile Property settings. Choose each property, select the AD field you wish to import from. This will cause the existing data to be overwritten by the AD values.