iterating through user profiles

Today i was busy on migrating some userprofiles and for some reason i had to iterate through the existing userprofiles in the MOSS 2007 environment.

I got a nice, lovely errormessage saying that I wasn't allowed to enumerate through all userprofiles, because i didnt have the rights to "Manage user profiles".

Dave Hunter's Blog (http://www.davehunter.co.uk/Blog/default.aspx) provided me the solution:

iterate through a set number!

<br />// get the server context<br />Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext ctx = Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext.GetContext(HttpContext.Current);<br /><br />// get the user profile manager<br />UserProfileManager userProfileManager = new UserProfileManager(ctx);<br /><br />// set the number of profiles to iterate through<br />int numberOfProfiles = 400;<br /><br />// loop through the user profiles<br />for (int i = 0; i < numberOfProfiles; i++)<br />{<br /> try<br /> {<br /> UserProfile profile = userProfileManager.GetUserProfile(i);<br /><br /> // do some action on each currentProfile<br /> }<br /> catch (Exception ex)<br /> {<br /> // failed to get user profile<br /> // log the error<br /> }<br />}<br /><br />