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Gary Lapointe and Mathew McDermott recently published an article on this topic in SharePointPro magazine. It is available online here:
http://www.sharepointpromag.com/article/sharepoint/monitor-sharepoint-user-profile-changes-129846
Synopsis of the article:
First you enable logging via the STSADM tool (no PS available for this)
stsadm -o ...
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This is what I follow. The most important thing to note is if you screw up somewhere along the way you have to blow away your service application before trying again.
Update
Very rarely I have to remove the FIM certificates when things are really broken with the user profile service:
Stop the SharePoint Timer Service
Stop the User Profile Service if ...
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Have you already set up synchronization from AD and got that working?
You need to
upload images to AD. I use PowerShell for this
$photo = [byte[]](Get-Content C:\abc.jpg -Encoding byte)
Set-ADUser myUser -Replace @{thumbnailPhoto=$photo}
setup mapping in User Profile to thumbnailPhoto
run Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -MySiteHostLocation http://my ...
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I think in the case of the User Profile Service Application databases the recommendation is to replicate, rather than propagate these between farms. I don't think you can attach a User Profile database from one farm to another.
If your user profile data is mainly coming from Active Directory I would suggest you just re-import the AD profiles in the other ...
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When you attempt to access the new site, the User Profile Service Application is called resulting in the error. It looks like this service wasn't created correctly.
Try recreating this service according to the following steps:
Make a record of any user profile configuration you've made.
Delete the User Profile Service Application.
Update to the latest ...
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I think it is a known side effect when installing June CU.
You can either uninstall .Net 4.0 or force FIM to use .Net Framework v2.0
It is explained here in detail:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/patrick_heyde/archive/2011/07/02/sharepoint-2010-junecu-2011-available-side-effect-info-amp-solution.aspx
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There are workarounds to utilize local account when installing on Win7, but you wont want to do that in a production because:
you wont be supported by Microsoft
your farm wont scale
you can count on having weird issues that you will most likely not
find documentation on.
In order for you to setup synchronization, when you configure the sync you need to ...
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What that usually means is that your Active Directory isn't configured or managed the way that SharePoint expects. Grab your AD guy and have him sit next to you while you go to Central Admin -> Applications -> Service Applications -> User Profile Service. On the dropdown next to your default AD connection, there will be an option called "Edit Connection ...
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I think you were looking for a way to remove the accounts from the search results? If so, you can create a crawl rule to remove them from the results. You can create a managed property for the account name and exclude it from the results.
See this thread:
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This is full 'road map'
Central administration > Application Management > Service
Applications > Manage service applications
click User Profile service
People > Manage User Properties
select desired property > menu Edit
scroll to bottom
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Sharepoint 2010 has the ability to log just about everything ranging from your dog barking to the server has crashed.
Not all of it as activated by default though.
Have a look at Monitoring > Configure diagnostic logging in your Central Admin.
Under SharePoint Portal Server there are a couple which you need to tick:
SPS People
User Profiles
Personal ...
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Just to accomplish what John said, you can create a schedules task for the following PowerShell script:
$UserProfileService= Get-SPServiceApplication 42gg4bda-1hd0-4df6-bfgg-54gd4df33ff
$UserProfileService.StartImport($true)
P.S. Full Import can be intensive though so be very careful with the schedule.
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Usernames display as "domain\username" when User Profile Synchronziation has not yet been configured or there is issues with the service application / synchronization once it has been setup. Here is the MS TechNet information on how to configure User Profile Sync - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee721049.aspx.
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You can map User Profile properties to BCS connections as long as there is a unique identifier on your SQL data that can map to a unique property in the User Profile. Here is a blog post that can walk you through it:
http://www.kowalski.ms/2010/07/20/sharepoint-server-2010-supplementing-user-profile-imports-using-bcs/
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The disabled/deleted accounts will no longer be imported, and will no longer be available in the User Profiles record set. That's the short answer. But I bet what you really wanted to know is what effect this will have on the active users' experience and SharePoint sites and documents created by a now disabled/deleted account. I'm no definative voice, but ...
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You can have User profile synchronization and schedule the synchronization incremental timer job with the frequency you need.
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Try to delete the User Profile Service, and its proxy and recreate a new one. I had to do the same thing whenever it didn't start..
UPDATE:
Also try out this microsoft technet article:
http://technet.microsoft.com/library/gg750257(office.14).aspx
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There are two jobs, User Profile to SharePoint Quick Sync and User Profile to SharePoint Full Sync, that synchronize the User Profile database information with the UIL. Sometimes this stops working (properly) and in that case you need to run:
stsadm -o sync -listolddatabases 0
stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 0
The first command will list Content ...
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The number could change based on when your user profile sync is scheduled. Profiles can be added or removed based on those sync schedules.
Then you have the crawl schedules where the profile changes will be reflected in the index.
It is possible that a crawl ran, but that something prevented it from reading all of the profiles, but that were picked up ...
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To isolate the problem during setting up of User Profiles sync, it is very common that you may not get to the actual error straightaway. The right way to get the actual error message is to use the Synchronization service manager (MIIS Client).
Path to MIIS Client can be found here:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization
...
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I found my solution from this blog.
Go to your Central Admin website
Go to "Application Management"
Go to "Service Applications -> Manage Service Applications"
Click on "User Profile Service Application"
Click on "Synchronization -> Configure Synchronization Connections"
Click on your connection and select "Edit Connection Filters" from the menu
Add a new ...
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There are no specific need that i know of to know what user installed the farm. You do need to know the farm account, but that will already be present when you try to start the sync service.
Also this sync service needs to be local admin when service is started (this permission should be revoked after service has started). This is the no. 1 reason for the ...
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A quick search has revealed nothing out of the box or third party available for this. However likely you could script something since there are plenty of API's that interact with Active Directory, you would have to:
1) Pull all information out of your Forms based provider (be it SQL Server, XML File, FaceBook, etc.)
2) One at a time, use the active ...
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Basically first troubleshooting step is to work out is this the sync service mucking up or SharePoint.
Is the Sync service actually putting first/last name into the Name attribute on the users list?
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As Anders says, the information is coming from your User Profile Service Application.
After a user is removed from Active Directory, it is not removed from the User Profiles immediately. It is something like the second time it syncs. and doesn't see it that it goes from the UPA. This may be why you are still seeing this user in the Organization Browser.
It ...
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InfoPath Form Services does not support claims based authentication (that's what MS Support told us, when we faced a similar issue with Nintex Workflow.asmx about a month back).
If you look in the IIS logs you will see that the calls to the UserProfileService.asmx are getting made as nt authority\anonymous user instead of the currently logged in user. This ...
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Oke so this was very dumb, it turns out i had to tick the "Enable news feed on My Sites" box, in the "Setup My Sites" Menu in the user profile serve application. Now all the newsfeeds work!
The problem with the sync from Active Directory not working was due to the account used to get the information. We used a standard account to do this, and we were able ...
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Why would you want to do that? If you've setup your user profile service, you can use that to sync your user profiles into SharePoint. It does a bunch more stuff, but basically that's it.
If you want to do things like provide access to your portal to everyone in your AD, you can just grant rights to NT AUTORITY\Authenticated Users and all users will have ...
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You should check if the user exists with before you ask for the profile:
if ( profileManager.UserExists(_userName) )
{
user = profileManager.GetUserProfile(_userName);
}
It might also be a good idea to check if the login is valid (eg. the user has logged in before). You can use EnsureUser() for this
SPUser user = site.RootWeb.EnsureUser(_userName);
...
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Microsoft has confirmed this bug in the Oct 2011 cumulative update. According to this MSDN blog post the fix should be included in the Dec 2011 cumulative update and should be released around December 27th.
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