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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 property for all users by either overwriting it or completely deleting it.

By going to UPS Administration > Manage User Properties I tried the following things:

  1. Delete "Job Title". » Doesn't work as Delete is grayed out.
  2. Edit "Job Title" to now get its data from some random AD property instead of title (e.g. division). » The data already contained in the property for the users is not deleted nor edited (I have a user having e.g. "Blue division" in active directory division, but he still has the old title data)
  3. Tried playing around with the policy settings (Required/Replicable etc.), no luck.

After every change I did a full synchronization.

What I am asking is how I can overwrite all users' "Job Title" attribute with a new value I specify or delete the attribute or get it from some other AD field.
In general: Why isn't the new data applied when I select a different field from AD the data shall be imported from?

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  • Check to see if the property is editable in the User Profile Service App / Manage User Properties / Allow Users to Edit values for property
    – sween_sp
    May 5, 2012 at 15:28
  • No, it's not. I don't want users to change it anyways.
    – Dennis G
    May 6, 2012 at 16:36
  • We had a similar issue where we had to unlock it, update it, then lock it again so users couldn't update. We couldn't update it fom PowerShell or code unless it was unlocked.
    – sween_sp
    May 7, 2012 at 13:25
  • unlocked <- what wizardry are you talking about? :-) How would I unlock the field?
    – Dennis G
    May 7, 2012 at 16:06
  • Sorry! I meant temporarily make it editable, our definition of "unlocked". We set the property.IsUsereditable = true in code, Update, Commit, then set it back to false. The code below will set editable to true via PowerShell.
    – sween_sp
    May 7, 2012 at 16:39

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Here is the powershell we used to unlock our field:

$PortalURL = 'http://yoursite'

$oSite = Get-SPSite $PortalURL
$oSiteContext =[Microsoft.Office.Server.ServerContext]::GetContext($oSite)  
$oUserProfileManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($oSiteContext)

$oFieldNameProp = $oUserProfileManager.DefaultProfileSubtypeProperties | Where {$_.Name -eq 'FieldName'}
$oFieldNameProp.IsUserEditable = $true
$oFieldNameProp.Commit()
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  • All you're doing is let the user edit the field - I was talking about synchronization from Active Directory.
    – Dennis G
    Feb 14, 2013 at 15:37
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    Right, I was just trying to say that we had a similar situation where we had to edit a property that didn't take our changes either. Once we made it editable, re-synced, then changed the property back to uneditable, it then maintained the changes. We didn't allow users to edit either. This was in code.
    – sween_sp
    Mar 6, 2013 at 15:17
  • Understood. IsUserEditable = $true. Do a full profile synch --> Property is synched and set IsUserEditable back to false.
    – Dennis G
    Mar 6, 2013 at 15:50
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You can "disable" this property by removing the options to show in user profiles, show in edit pages and also make it non editable.

Then, you create a new property and call it what ever you want and map to the correct AD field for import or import/export.

See this question which I answers myself about how to even map to a Termset:

Setup Department Profile property as Term Set and Sync back to AD

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    Problem is you can't really disable it unless you want to break standard behavior. The Organisation Browser (Silverlight) uses the job title property to display right underneath the usernames - you cannot edit which property it uses. Sure, you can create a new property, but that ain't the "real" job title field ;-)
    – Dennis G
    Feb 14, 2013 at 15:36
  • You are correct. The only thing you really can't control is that Silverlight control. I wish MS allowed us to specify which fields are displayed in that control. Wouldn't be too difficult to replicate that though.
    – Fox
    Feb 15, 2013 at 8:52

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