Question

I’m looking for a web service or web service method that supports querying the users store with criteria against a custom user property. Something along the lines of (simplified example):

Select Users Where FavoriteColor (CustomProperty) Equals "Blue"

That returns the users that match the criteria (usernames ideally). I’ve dug through the documentation for the web services and the UserProfileService and I’m not seeing anything that will meet my current needs. The service will be consumed by a Silverlight application.

I suspect I’m going to have to write a custom web service however thought I’d ask here first.

Answer 1

What about using the Client OM? Here’s a link to an article discussing querying users using the Client OM: http://www.learningsharepoint.com/2010/07/22/get-all-users-and-groups-client-object-model-sharepoint-2010/