Gets the colleagues for the specified user using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell

Steps Involved:

1. Open SharePoint 2010 Management Shell by going to Start | All Programs | SharePoint | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Management Shell (Run as Administrator).
2. Run the following script.

Powershell Script:

##Gets the colleagues for the specified user using SharePoint 2010 web service in powershell $uri="http://serverName:10736/sites/ECT2/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx?wsdl" ## $accountName is a string that contains the account name for which you need to get all the colleagues $accountName="domainName\userName" ## Web Service Reference - http://Site/_vti_bin/UserProfileService.asmx $userProfileWebServiceReference = New-WebServiceProxy -Uri $uri -UseDefaultCredential $colleagues=$userProfileWebServiceReference.GetUserColleagues($accountName) ## Creates an GetUserColleagues.xml file in the D:\ which contains colleague information for the specified $accountName $output = New-Object -TypeName System.IO.StreamWriter -ArgumentList "D:\GetUserColleagues.xml", $false $output.WriteLine("<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""utf-8"" ?>") $output.WriteLine("<Colleagues>") foreach($colleague in $colleagues) { $accountName=$colleague.AccountName $privacy=$colleague.Privacy $name=$colleague.Name $isInWorkGroup=$colleague.IsInWorkGroup $group=$colleague.Group $email=$colleague.Email $title=$colleague.Title $url=$colleague.Url $userProfileId=$colleague.UserProfileId $id=$colleague.Id $output.WriteLine("<Colleague AccountName=""$accountName"" Privacy=""$privacy"" Name=""$name"" IsInWorkGroup=""$isInWorkGroup"" Group=""$group"" Email=""$email"" Title=""$title"" Url=""$url"" UserProfileId=""$userProfileId"" Id=""$id"" >") $output.WriteLine("</Colleague>") } $output.WriteLine("</Colleagues>") $output.WriteLine() $output.Dispose()

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