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Update-SPProfilePhotoStore executing successfully but not Profile updating photos in sharepoint 2013

I'm running this command in powershell Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos 1 -MySiteHostLocation http://mysite.mydomain.local It's executing successfully but the profile ...
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Domain users not showing in People Picker

SharePoint is completely new to me, so thanks for your patience. I have set up a standalone SharePoint 2016 instance for testing/development purposes. However, People Picker cannot resolve domain ...
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User profile - mapping AD & ADFS

I have the exact same users in AD and ADFS - when I attempt to import the user profiles from these sources I end up with duplicate users, i want to essentially 'merge' the AD and ADFS users for SP ...
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SPFieldUserValue.User.Email giving an deleted email address on prod

Am very new to SharePoint. I have got stuck into a strange issue. On Prod server SPFieldUserValue.User.Email giving an email address which as been deleted. Actually, there were 2 users with the same ...
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Can we generate email signature page using SharePoint Mysite

Hi I am looking for best way to generate email signature including Company logo image in SharePoint (Mysite and AD). So if user click on a link, it should open up a page with his following details: ...
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Syncing AD Security Groups to Office 365 to use in SharePoint

The organization that I work for has about 2400 employees who we will want to allow access to a site collection. However, only about 150 of those will have Office 365 licenses. We would like to set ...
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Permissions to AD group does not work until refresh

I have an AD group "superusers" which has direct access to some list items in a list. Using Check Permissions show that even though the AD group is listed with access to the list item, it does not ...
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Allow custom non-AD CRM users with SharePoint online login

Trying to figure-out if it's possible to allow for non-AD users from a custom CRM system (where users credentials are stored in a custom SQLServer DB) to login with their credentials on SharePoint ...
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Get Profile Name and Photo of all AD users from AD using CSOM

I want to get all the AD users profile name and photo directly from AD using CSOM. Is there any way to do this without getting from user profile service?
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Questions on SPUser

I have a few questions related to the User object in SharePoint. When I use AD users, if I Disable a user in AD and run profile synchronization and get the SPUser instance for this user, I have no way ...
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HTTP 500 Internal Server Error in SharePoint 2013

There are two SharePoint 2013 farms - Production and Development. We have an AD account which runs a couple of WCF services. If I login with that account to any computer (tried a couple)/or open IE ...
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Checking if user is in AD group

One of the fields on list is User Picker where often are place AD groups. Authentication is set up with claims. While presenting the item, users which are in this AD groups (and others mentioned in ...
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If a User has no permission on site, Workflow throws null exception when trying to send Email

I have run into this problem many times and not yet able to find solution to it. Scenario: A user John is present in AD but have no permissions on the site. A user filling out InfoPath form selects ...
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SharePoint Navigation Audience Targeting Not Working With AD Group

We're using SharePoint 2013 as an intranet portal and want to customize what global navigation links users see based on their AD group membership and I'm having a hard time getting it to work. I have ...
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Searching Users in AD through REST in sharepoint?

Any ideas on trying to find/search users by id in Sharepoint by a REST query? At the moment I am playing around with the clientside people picker to search for users https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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sync Ad custom atrbute with userprofiles

I have tried and failed to use the built-in UI to map some custom properties from an AD over to SharePoint. That is when I went over to a Powershell script that can do the same. The problem I'm ...
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JavaScript: add AD security groups to list item permissions

I use the code below to group permissions on list items. This works fine for SharePoint groups. How'd I do this for AD security groups? (SP2013) restrictToGroup = function( a ) { var ctx = new ...
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If AD group gets a rename will SP automaticly understand its same group just different name?

If AD group gets another name will SP automaticly understand its same group just different name or do I need to remove it and add it again in site permissions?
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Remove users and their MySite using CSOM

I have a scenario in which I have to remove the users from SharePoint after they have left the company. Say, I have 5 users who left the company. So I'll write a CSOM code to read the names from a ...
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SharePoint 2013 - User Profile Pictures does not replicate to AD using Profile Synchronization

I am working with SP 2013 Intranet Site. I am working on a issue where I can upload a photo to User My Site and it gets replicated to AD and then to Outlook. However, existing photos in User MySites ...
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Synced user cannot be found - EnsureUser - AD - SharePoint 2013

I've created 1500 mysites (pre-provisioning), but there are 25 user that don't get their mysites. All users can be found after running a sync, but when I try to check for a user with powershell I ...
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User profile synchronization - AD - "&" character triggers update on users

When doing a sync against AD almost every user get updated. And this happens every time I'm doing a sync! When I look at FIM it looks like SPS-Deparment detects changes because AD has a different &...
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User Profile Synchronization Won't Update Profiles in SharePoint 2013

OK, so just as the title suggests, I am not able to see changes made in AD reflect in my SharePoint 2013 environment. I have successfully created a User Profile Synchronization application (CA > ...
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Organization Browser of any user (not just current user)

I want to get organization browser for any user not just current user that is logged in. How can I make it happen? any advise? : ) note: I cannot use visual studio.
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Exclude expired accounts from the UPS import

I need to be able to exclude users from the import from AD that have an account that is expired BUT not disabled. We currently filter like this Attribute Operator Filter ...
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Can't find AD data connection when importing pictures from AD

I want to syncronize the pictures in AD with SharePoint 2013, but I can't seem to find the AD data connection. I'm following this guide. But when I go to select the AD data connection when adding a ...
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User profiles service and AD

I have selected specific ou's to sync for user profiles and added exclusion filters. After an initial full sync I have gone back and un-ticked some OU's. Performed a full sync but the profiles are ...
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Name change not shown in Sharepoint

Our SharePoint 2007 farm imports user info from AD daily. We have found a problem with one user (there may be more). This user has changed her surname - it was changed on AD and imported to ...
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Copy Person item value to another site

Which is the best way to copy item with person column to another site ? Situation: I have source site A and destination site B with the same structured custom list. I have to copy item from A to B. ...
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Login Name in User Information List is in Lower Case

In AD, the login name is in upper case (example: CONTOSO\JANE.DOE). In the user profile found in the SharePoint User Profile Service Application, it's still in upper case. However, in the SharePoint ...
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External Access to Sharepoint 365 Site

My organization has a ASP.Net Extranet site that uses the standard .NET SQL membership provider DB using forms authentication, and we also have a Sharepoint site on Office 365 for our internal users ...
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Workaround for testing to see if a user belongs to Active Directory (AD) group within standard SP Group

I recently implemented a JS/jQuery solution that checks for all of the SP groups to which a user belongs adds the group names classes to the body tag of the pages I am building. It worked very well ...
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User Profiles email property not getting updated in SharePoint

We have SharePoint 2013 on-premise site, where users from "ABC" AD domain are accessing the site. Now some of the users got new account and email on "XYZ" domain, but still they are part of "ABC" ...
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Missing departement in user profile

I have a user whose account does not display department in the user list in a site SharePoint 2010. For example, user2's departement does not appear in the list. But this departement information ...
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Get Sharepoint Permissions\Roles (custom) of a user from AD Group that is part of SP Group via CSOM

SharePoint 2013 + provider-hosted app. User is part of AD group. AD group is part of Sharepoint group. Sharepoint group has custom security permissions assigned. How do I check whether user has some ...
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AD Groups of one domain/farm( 2013) not showing up on SharePoint(2007) in another domain

I have SharePoint 2013 and 2007 environments, i have created test AD groups on 2013 farm and would like that to show up on 2007 farm. Note - 2013 and 2007 are different domains SharePoint 2013 Farm - ...
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SP 2013 AD import leaves out some user accounts

For some reason doung an AD import leaves some user accounts 'missing. The account I'm using certainly has "Replicating Diredtory Changes Permissions" but still a no go. Odd thing is if someone from ...
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SPUser.Groups and AD

I have a set up like so: USER is in an AD Group, the AD Group is in turn in a SharePoint Group. When I call SPUser.Groups on the USER, the SharePoint Group is not returned. Is this just how it ...
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SharePoint 2013: Sync Active Directory Detail Information with SharePoint Users

I am setting up a new SharePoint 2013 environment and the customer is requesting that the detailed information from Active Directory (phone #, email, fax, etc.) be synced with the user information in ...
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Remove Replicating directory changes on a user - AD - powershell

I'm having problem in my production environment with User Profile Synchronization Service that is stuck on starting. I'm not able to reach the AD but the hosting company does. I think they might have ...
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User synced from AD with wrong Name

I'm on a Sharepoint 2013 On Premise farm and I have a problem with one user. It gets synced with the wrong name and email (from another user - both are AD Users, both have different SIDs and they're ...
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Line breaks in streetAddress AD attribute not shown on MySite

We currently use the AD attributes co, st, streetAddress, l etc. to hold a user's address data. Even though streetAddress is not a multivalue attribute in AD, you can enter multiple lines, simply ...
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how to check if user is logged in from FBA account or AD account

I want to check through the code that the user logged is is from FBA membership provider database or from AD account
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User deleted and re-added to AD - Profile now empty on MOSS

A user was accidentally deleted from AD and re-added once we realised what happened, now the user is unable to access the SharePoint site they work within. I re-added the permissions to the specific ...
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People picker does not find users in other domain with two-way trusted connection

Our customer has two domains with two-way trusted connection between them. On one of them they have a SharePoint farm. The problem is people pickers only find users that exist in the domain which has ...
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Check User permission not working when user add by a AD Group

Following code returns True if the user has been added to a certain SP Group directly. However it returns False if the user is added via an AD Group. How do I fix it so that it returns true even if ...
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Is it possible to mail to an AD group and use this AD group for permissions?

I am using SharePoint 2010. I have a site which gives Contribute permissions to some SP Group. Inside this SP Group I have a AD group. This AD group has is from type "Security". When I try to mail ...
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user not synchronized in 'my settings' once the UPN was changed in AD

we changed some upn in AD and the usernames did not updated and could not login. Once we restarted the server with sharepoint apps they could log in but if they go to username > My settings they still ...
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People Picker Port Tester Failed to DNS Test

I have a Problem with People Picker in Sharepoint 2013, I have One Domain Server with windows server 2008 and one Server for MSSQL 2012 and Sharepoint 2013. "we have a small network with 14 users at ...
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Add AD group to SharePoint Online using REST API

Is it possible to add an AD group into SharePoint. I've created a user group in the Office 365 portal, which appears to be stored in AD. Is there a way of searching for this AD group and adding it. ...
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