User Profile Inactive Profiles Not Deleting

Question

In the SharePoint farm we have, the inactive user profiles (those are disabled in AD) are not being removed when i am running the my site cleanup timer job. I verified the configuration of User Profile and found the following steps

1. I have configured my site host for the User Profile
2. When I run the profile synchronization I observe that in MISCLINET (Forefront Client) it’s marking the profiles for deleting (i.e., it showing deletes value to 138 which are the total inactive profiles I have)
3. But when I query the Profile Database(UserProfile_Full table) it’s showing the bDeleted = 1 instead of 0 for all the profiles.
4. And I observed that the inactive profiles are not being moved to the "Missing from Import Sub type".
5. Then, when I run the my site clean up timer job it’s finishing the job in 0 seconds which means that the job is not running successfully.

I am following this MSDN article for solving it http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaevans/archive/2012/06/25/top-recommendations-for-managing-the-my-site-cleanup-timer-job.aspx

Answer 1

You can use below workaround.

The “SharePoint Active Directory Import” does not mark the profile to be deleted either with incremental or Full Import when they are the disabled and only way to remove the obsolete users is as mentioned HERE https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff681014(v=office.15).aspx#RemoveObsUsers.

1 Run Full Import

2 Post that run Use SharePoint Management Shell to Run following

a) $upa = Get-SPServiceApplication -id <Identity of User Profile Service Application>

b) Set-SPProfileServiceApplication -Identity $upa - PurgeNonImportedObjects $true