Metadata about a user.
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Remove old profiles from upgrade to 2010
when i upgraded our environment from 2007 to 2010 it seems everyones profiles came with it. I did a cutover upgrade so i would have thought that any profiles in my 2007 environment would have been ...
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Changing users DisplayName isn't permanent (i:0#.f|… issue)
We're having the issue where user's names shown after logging in are being preffixed with the membership provider information, e.g. i:0#.f|fbamembershipprovider|myemail@q... (note that we're using FBA ...
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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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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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605 views
Importing Active Directory fields into User Profile Managed Metadata Properties
In the simplest approach, we've created a term set for our company's departments. Our Active Directory also captures this information as a string property. When we import our users from AD into ...
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People picker and adduser find different person depending on Web Application on MOSS 2007
We get different people picker and add user results between web applications.
We have 3 domains in our user profile sync.
We checked user profiles and AD for a particular domainA\user3 and it looks ...
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383 views
Assign One User Profile Property to Another SharePoint 2010
How can I copy the value of one user property to another in SharePoint? We have a custom property called Supervisor which will be entered by the user and I want to copy this property into the Manager ...
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get context login info
I see all kinds of code to get current SharePoint 2010 logged in user. (I guess current context user from the browser client).
What is the best code? (not currently logged into machine user)
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User profile Audience Using Power shell
#Add SharePoint PowerShell SnapIn if not already added
if ((Get-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) -eq $null) {
Add-PSSnapin ...
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361 views
Using get-spuser returns null SIDs
I am very new to SharePoint (2010 in this case) and have been tasked with writing a PowerShell script that will synchronize some information between Active Directory and SharePoint users.
I figured ...
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2answers
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CSOM Query on Hidden User Information List returning nothing
I'm trying to retrieve a user's profile picture from the hidden User Information List within Silverlight. I can't use the UserProfileService.asmx because I don't have the login name nor the GUID of ...
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Cannot update profile picture
Cannot update profile picture, trying to add a picture to profiles and I recieve the follwoing error. " There was an error saving the picture. Please try again later. "
Has this been resolved? if ...
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607 views
Allow a Sharepoint group to edit profile pictures of all users in MySite
I want to create a Sharepoint (or AD) group which could edit profile pictures of all MySite users. I tried to create a Sharepoint group but even with a "total control" (or global control, I don't how ...
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706 views
User Contact List and Lync
I am struggling in creating a contact list.
Our company requires a sharepoint contact list so that the details of AD users are shown.
It would be great if the online status of users is shown.
I think ...
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1answer
590 views
Import and Export last profile picture to AD
I actually want to have a perfect sync of my Sharepoint site with my AD for profile picture. So, I need to have a bi-directionnal import of profile picture and a mean to have the most recent picture ...
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Using a custom claims provider to populate user properties (Email and Display Name)
We have a custom claims provider that calls a web service in order to provide search and resolve for users being federated from ADFS. This web service provides names, email addresses, and AD security ...
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ldap and user profile attributes
I have an extended webapp that uses the LDAP provider so users can log in without the fun windows integrated popup. I configured the User Profile Sync Application to use my Forms/LDAP Provider and ...
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unset the manager changes activity feed in SharePoint 2010
We wanted to unset the manager changes activity feed for all the users are in the SharePoint 2010 farm, have used the below code
using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Server;
using ...
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User Profile Service Application Error
I have Sharepoint Server 2010 Standard installed.
I want to configure the default "User Profile Service Application".
When I click on User Profile Service Application from central admin, it gives ...
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Customize “Show to” drop down labels in MySite Profile
Is it possible to modify display texts for 'Show to' drop-downs in user profile editing page of mysite? If yes - where should I look?
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Unable to create an instance of “ActivityManager” using Powershell?
Would like to work with the "ActivityManager" object however it is throwing an error:
$site = New-Object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite($siteurl)
$context = ...
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How to find out disk space/storage usage from photo storage in a SharePoint profile
Does anyone know how to query the amount of space that is being used by storing photos in the my sites section of SharePoint? There has been concern that syncing photos to Active Directory will bloat ...
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Sharepoint sets wrong profile picture to some people who don't have one
My problem is that Sharepoint 2010 sets by default a wrong profile picture which owns to another profile to some profile which don't have any one. But next, some profile who don't have any profile ...
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Access Denied: You may only modify your own profile, unless you are an administrator
I am getting Accessdenied error. while setting value to user profile property. This method in my custom web service. running on System Account application pool identity.
Execption:
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Before ...
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How to create page simlar to Person.aspx
We currently provide an email signature creator that employees can either use or not. The form asks users to enter information that we have in Active Directory. So, I was wondering if somebody can ...
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Using the people picker how to get the typed/selected users to save them somewhere?
Using the people picker how to get the typed/selected users to save them somewhere?
I already know how to create a people picker in an application page, however after the user types 10 users or ...
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Create app page with user/group picker?
I need to create an app page with some multiline textboxes.
In those textboxes, user should be able to type users, and put as many users or groups in the normal sharepoint way:
domain\user1; ...
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1answer
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download profile pictures powershell way
I am using following powershell (that I got from here http://spsatheesh.wordpress.com/2011/06/03/download-all-the-profile-pictures-through-powershell-using-web-service/)so I can download all the ...
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How do you customize the 'More Information' dropdown section of profile pages in My Sites?
When you click More Information, if there is in fact more information, I want to customize what information gets put in there, can you make some of those fields always display above the More ...
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update profile db with ad but without setting up the ups
Is there another way to push data from Active Directory to profile DB without using UPS. i am working on developer machine and just need one time push from AD to profile DB. Is there an alternate to ...
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Not allowing to syncronize one of the fields
I have a question concerning syncronization of user profiles with AD. Is it possible to someone how to disable
syncronization of all properties from AD, because some fields i dont want to be imported ...
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Search by samaccountname in people picker [closed]
Our current people picker works perfect, but we have about 5000 users and it would be easier for us to use the samaccountname which comes from AD.
Is it possible to do?
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Hovering over presence indicator doesnt bring pop up
I have some strange behavior. When im on user profile and i hover over the "prescense indicator" i do not get a pop up, as strange as it my seen ...
How could it be? Do i need to activate maybe ...
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How many users can user profile service handle?
I have a question regarding the user profile service. It is more functional question.
The question is how many users can the user profile service handle?
By this i mean, lets say i have a sharepoint ...
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Import user profiles from the LDAP
We have a requirement to import the user profile from "sun java directory services", the SharePoint farm account is in AD but not present in the LDAP.
By design, SharePoint does not allow up to ...
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Is it possible to swap out urls pointing to MySite with urls to custom pages?
We've developed a custom userprofile page for a costumer. This page is supposed to be linked to by all default sharepoint buttons and links pointing to the MySite.
One example is the SharePoint ...
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How to get user profile property value when privacy for property set to “Private” (only me)
I have a property in the user profile. This property has privacy settings equal to "Private" (or "Only Me" if working through UI). It means that value for this property will be shown only to you or ...
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Unable to debug in an event receiver sharepoint 2010
When i debug in the event reciever(item adding) as soon as it reached the if condition
i get the following error
unable to automatically step into the server.The remote procedure could not be ...
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Accessing A User's Home Directory Through the Web
Our school board is set up with Active Directory and we'd like to be able to allow staff to access their files from home through a web interface. Is it possible to securely expose a user's home ...
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Can't access the user profiles in a console application
I want to make some manipulation with the user profiles from a console application.
I'm trying to enumerate the profiles, with no success :
var mysite = "http://my";
...
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User profile property values are disappeared in SharePoint 2010
We have configured a user profile multi-valued property ("Certificate") and it is used in our SharePoint 2010 environment since a year. Suddenly, the values of this property disappeared when I try ...
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2answers
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Sort Order in People Search Core Results
I wish to display a list of new users on my sharepoint site. I've picked the People Search Core Results webpart and have a user list, but how do I order it by creation date? I know in Active ...
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Determining if a user should be able to see another user's profile property in code
I'm trying to create a Web Part that will conditionally display its contents if the current user has permission to see a specific user profile property. Here's what I've got so far. It seems that I ...
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list most recently added user profiles?
In a web part (either out of the box or custom), I would like to list the user profiles most recently imported from Active Directory. This would be roughly equivalent to the most recent hires. Is this ...
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NullReferenceException when instantiating UserProfileConfiguration
I'm following the instructions at How to: Create and Edit a User Profile Property. I keep getting a NullReferenceException on the call to the UserProfileConfigManager constructor. The context ...
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How to hide user properties
Can I conditionally hide properties being displayed using SPSWC:ProfilePropertyDisplayName and SPSWC:ProfilePropertyValue based on the field policy settings "Default Privacy Setting" (or the "Show To" ...
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1answer
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Retrieve only the fields shown in userdisp.aspx from User Information List
I have built a Web Part in Visual Studio 2008 to show the current user's information (this is for WSS 3.0).
I have no problem iterating through all the fields in the SPListItem, but I want to filter ...
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Event IDs 8311, 6803, 6110, and 6801 after new SSL certs installed and December CU
About a week ago I installed new SSL certificates. Few days I configured the export thumbnailPhoto attribute for the User Profile Sync. I've never actually been able to successfully export the photos ...
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Individual Blogs
Is it possible for each person in SharePoint to automatically have their own blog? I found http://answers.oreilly.com/topic/1368-how-to-create-a-blog-site-and-manage-blog-posts-in-sharepoint-2010/ ...
