Struggling to understand Service Profiles and jabber-config.xml

Hi,
I am doing my first Jabber 9.1 deployment and am striggling to understand the use of Service Profiles.
Lots of documentation I have seen states that the jabber-config.xml file should be manually edited then uploaded to the CUCM TFTP servers.
However much of the information contained in this file seems to be the same as that specified in Service Profiles.
When should I use Service Profiles? - do they generate the default jabber-config.xml file or do they have some other purpose?
The documentation seems confused and contradictory!
Thanks

Neither wins. The client will use one or the other depending on the platform and version.
I am struggling to like Jabber - it seems there is a lack of quality documentation and lots of gotchas for the unwary.
I can sympothize with that opinion. There is documentation but it sort of assumes you already know how the puzzle should look and only need guidence on completing individual tasks. The gotchas are a byproduct of the speed they are running development at. IMO this will settle down a bit around the 10.0 release of the *clients* (which will be after the system release of the server software). Every solution has gotchas, we're just a bit battle-weary of them on this one.
For the moment, Jabber mastery is sort of a rare skillset similar to CCX: many can script, few can do it well. Few can make Jabber "sing" at the moment.
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2b. FIM MA - Import - this imports the user from the FIM Portal including the information telling FIM to create them in AD
2c. FIM MA - Delta Sync - this synchronizes the updated information from the Portal into the Metaverse. When this synchronization runs FIM finds that the user needs to be created in AD on the next export
3. AD MA Export & Delta Import - The export creates the user in Active Directory and then the import "confirms" that the user has been created.
There are a few other ways that provisioning can happen but based on your description it sounds like the outline above should be what is happening in your environment.
Hope this helps! But I'd also recommend checking out some of the Technet articles on outbound/inbound synchronization -> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee621259(v=ws.10).aspx
Andrew.

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