The User Profile Service in SharePoint is responsible for synchronising user data to and from SharePoint to identity stores such as Active Directory, LDAP and many others.
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Disabling/postponing timer jobs programmatically
I wrote a utility that sync's our Oracle HR database of employees into SharePoint profiles. It loads all 150,000 employees from Oracle into an array, for each employee it retrieves or creates a ...
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User Profile Synchronization won't start
I am using sharepoint 2010 standard on Server2008 R2. I have configured and started User Profile Synchronization Service by following http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx article. My both ...
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SharePoint 2010 PeoplePicker Control Not Displaying User Data
In a test SharePoint environment, I have configured the User Profile Service, and the user profiles have been successfully populated into the UPS using the User profile Synchronization Service from ...
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SharePoint User Profile Sync to AD
One question regarding the user profile sync, we are trying to sync user photo in SharePoint back to AD picture. We have one AD forest, two domains, and in SharePoint we have two Synchronization ...
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ConnectionManager can't find connection
I'm trying to get a connection from the connectionManager, but when I run the following code, I get my connection as null (which throws a nullreference exception later) Is there anyone who knows what ...
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Service Application Error
I got a strange problem with Sharepoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service (UPS).
I have User Profile Service Application(UPA) and User Profile Service is started. Two FIM Service is stopped ...
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Migrate UPS profiles (win. classic auth.) to ADFS
my question regards to migrating from windows authentication to ADFS without losing UPS profiles data (fields from AD + unmapped fields values) and assuring synch. with AD is still working afterwards. ...
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How can user profile subtypes be assigned in batch?
Long story short, I don't want to have to go into each profile and assign them to a sub-type. Can this be accomplished in batch somehow?
Ideally , it would be great to somehow use audiences. If I ...
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Different user account names in SharePoint and in central administration
I am replacing a colleague for the support of a SharePoint 2010 intranet.
Active directory users have been imported by a User Profile service application.
I have noticed an issue and I prefer to ...
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SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization: BCS + WCF
I'm here because I'm trying to implement a scenario of user profile synchro with bcs connecting to wcf service.
Here is the context:
A remote web service is returning a full list of employee infos. ...
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Stop Local Accounts From Being Included in User Profile Synchronization
I've created connection filters that should filter out any service accounts from being imported from AD. It's worked for all service accounts except for the Sharepoint search and Sharepoint service ...
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Unauthorized access to User Profile Service web service
I have two zones for my SP2010 site collection: default (uses Win Auth- claims) and internet (uses FBA to an AD user store). I have a WP which would call the User Profile Web Service and get some ...
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AD Sync strange behavior
Sync is running fine. It updates and adds users.
However, some of the employees in the same OU are not being added when FIM runs. Any reason for this?
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Post upgrade - FIM Sync issue
Upgraded my production farm to FEB 2012 CU from OCT 2010 CU a couple weeks ago and things went ok for the most part nothing major issue wise, however I ran a full sync in my User Profile Service ...
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“HostId is not registered” when starting User Profile Synchronization Service
I'm totally stuck trying to get the User Profile Synchronization Service to run in a new SharePoint 2013 system. I've followed every possible guide and applied every known fix, but it's still unable ...
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Access service context in timer job
I have custom claims provider which uses user profile service to get some data when resolving claims for user. I'm creating UserProfileManager this way:
private UserProfileManager UserProfileManager
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User Profile Application - MOSS MA not found
I've had an interesting 2 days with a production environment which saw me rebuild a farm in 2007 and upgrade it to 2010. Nearly have everything working bar the fabled UPSA. I seemingly have some kind ...
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Delete sharepoint user property using powershell
This is the script im using to delete the sharepoint userprofile property using powershell.
#Load Sharepoint SnapIn
if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction ...
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SharePoint Services not running
I have installed SharePoint standalone in C:.
I have choose database : data and log file path in D:\ drive.
Now after successful installation, I start configuring services,
SharePoint search ...
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Problem with User Profile Synchronization Service
I have been facing the problem with my sharepoint user profile synchronization service for almost 2 months.
I have followed exactly the http://www.harbar.net/articles/sp2010ups.aspx article and yet ...
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Configuring User Profile/Managed Metadata Sync Service
As far as I know, everytime you perform a crawl on the User Profile Service Application certain Active Directory fields are converter or added (if already exist) to the People term-set. We found a ...
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Move-SPUser : pixels
Migrating users from one domain to another, I get this error on a couple of users. The migration still seems to occur.
Move-SPUser : pixels
At D:\UserMigration\MigrateUsers.ps1:10 char:28
+ ...
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How to programmatically access values on “My Site Settings” page
I'm working on an automated SharePoint 2013 production environment deployment.
I'm searching for a programmatic means of manipulating all values found on the "My Site Settings" page of CA. Reverse ...
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Sync SharePoint 2010 UPS to a csv file
I get a nightly update of all users' profile properties via csv. I would like to setup the User Profile Service App to sync to that CSV. I assume this shouldn't be terribly difficult and has likely ...
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Getting AD Information
I need to certain information. I read that it is not possible to get AD information unless you have some sort of solution that accesses it.
So the other option is the SharePoint user profiles.
How ...
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Iterating over user profiles in Sharepoint Online 2013
With the on-premise instance of SharePoint, I am able to call the GetUserProfileByIndex from the User Profile Service to iterate over user profiles. However, with SharePoint online 2013, I get the ...
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Deleted Service Application, Service Instance(s) Remain
The User Profile Synchronization Service was not properly configured and was stuck in "Stopping" state. I was able to delete the User Profile Service Application but the User Profile Service ...
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User Profile Service Application. Unable to create a New User Profile Service Application
I am trying to configure Mysite to SharePoint 2013. I first tried to start User Profile Synchronization Service on my server. In that it shown an error message "No User Profile Application found. ...
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SP2010 - User profile results with mix-and-match NETBIOS/DNS domains
First off, let me say that User Profile Service is provisioned and generally runs normally. We're running on February 2012 CU.
We're in the middle of a domain merge, combining five AD domains into ...
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Moving Users between OU's in Active directory and User Profile Sync
Currently we are going through a process of moving our users from one active directory OU to another OU within the same forest.
The issue that is now becoming apparent is that the users that have ...
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Use SharePoint web app without user profile service application
I have a requirement to allow users to change their display name, but, due to a somewhat bizarre combination of existing farm configuration and other limitations, I cannot accomplish this by making ...
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User Profile Photos not displaying in IE or Org Browser, but do in other browsers
User Profile Service is importing photos from AD. Sync and profile photos are being created fine. I've identified one profile picture that will not display in IE8, eventhough the picture exists. ...
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SharePoint 2010: How to ascertain current MySite Host
Afternoon all,
I've inherited a farm with less than perfect UPS. The quickest fix is to simply re-create it. The Service Application has been unassociated with the defaulty proxy app pool, so ...
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Best Practice changing usernames for Sharepoint 2010
We are using SharePoint 2010 Enterprise and have a User Profile service set to synchronize against AD DS.
When a user's username changes, because of marriage or mis spelling, there are a set of ...
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No results when searching with special characters in custom metadata property
We have an issue with SharePoint 2010 Search. Currently, we have a property in Active Directory, for each user, that specify their initials. We have a scheduled task that runs every hour to sync these ...
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Using User Profile Service from a different farm
This is SP2010. Our production farm has a somewhat-working (sync doesn't work, of course) User Profile Service application. Our test/dev farm doesn't have a User Profile Service app, and I'm a bit ...
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Powershell scripts: Create user profile synchronization service using sharepoint active directory
In sharepoint 2013 I have to create user profile synchronization connection using sharepoint active directory through scripts. I have created the user profile service using powershell after that is ...
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FIM Import error for one user
I have got one user that is causing the user profile sync to error, if I remove the OU the user is in from the sync it works ok. I have thought about deleting and re-creating the user, but that seems ...
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Sharepoint broke Active Directory?
Have a bit of a urgent issue here and hope I can get some advice.
I suspect that somehow Sharepoint 2010 User Profile Sync overwrote certain active directory properties with null or empty values.
I ...
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Can Move-SPUser be used to merge users if security is not a factor?
We manage all our site security via AD group memberships. We are currently in the process of folding four AD domains into a fifth domain that already exists. Our farm is in one of those four domains ...
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User Profile Synchronization: How to delete/overwrite “Job Title” property?
The UPS animal is a strange one. I just don't know how I can delete or overwrite a property completely.
I have the Job Title property (Imported from AD) filled on all my users. I want to change this ...
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SharePoint Organization Profiles
I noticed that SharePoint User Profile Service now includes a definition for Organization Profiles. I think this is a really interesting new feature, but I'm not sure how it is used inside of ...
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User Profile Sync will not sync any users
I click on Start Profile Synchronization (Full or Incremental) and nothing happens. It never shows it going through the different sync stages.
Running with farm account that has full rights
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What is the bext way to update user profile info in AD from Sharepoint?
Is there a way to update a users profile in AD from sharepoint?
Is there a web part available, one that I can develop or any other interface that I could build/use?
Thanks
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Access Denied to Domain Security groups
I created a sub site with unique permission and If I add a AD Domain security group to SharePoint group(that has Read Permission level) and If I try to login with user in that Group I get ACCESS ...
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Custom Discussion Board Join User Profile Custom Properties Linked Datasource
I have been tasked with modifying the SharePoint 2010 default Discussion Board to include two additional custom fields that have been definied in the User Profile list.
In an ideal world I would like ...
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Forefront Identity Manager Service status is blank
Forefront identity manager service status is showing as blank in services console but I'm able to successfully start User profile service and User Profile Synchronization Service.
But I couldn't ...
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User Profile Pictures
SharePoint 2010 + December 2011 CU.
Got User Profiles syncing with Active Directory and configured to pull in picture from AD.
I've got a single Site Collection at the moment, and adding users to a ...
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My Site creation failure for user after moving My Sites to dedicated web application
I have created a new web application at port 8080 with the intention of having all personal site creation (i.e. My Sites) stored in a dedicated WSS_Content database (i.e. a best practice ...
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Upload picture through CA User Profile Service
Awhile back we packed our SP 2010 farm to SP1 and Oct Cum 2011 update. Well that introduced the UPS issue with not being able to upload pictures via a user profile or the CA. On our Dev Farm, I ...
