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This Distributed Cache host may cause cache reliability problems

I have a phantom or orphaned server in my farm and I'm not sure how to remove the entry as the server is not joined to the farm any longer, although part of the farm seems to think it is. In central ...
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Do I need to update FIM 2010 in SharePoint 2013?

I was wondering if I need to update FIM 2010 that comes with SharePoint 2013? There are some patches available here and the version I have is 4.0.2450.51, which is even below the RTM version. My ...
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Fim error while running synchronization. - Invalid credentials.

When i am running user profile synchronization, i am getting the below error in SharePoint 2013. The screen shot is from Synchronization service manager. How to resolve the below error?
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FIMSynchronization error - 6801

I have just taken over an environment. I am not too familiar with SP and am temporarily managing the farm. Every night there are errors from FIMSynchronizationService. Example one below. In the UPS I ...
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FIM service is 'Starting' then failes to start

We have been having a problem with FIM not starting from Central Admin with SharePoint 2013 with the below error showing in event viewer several times before it has tried too many times and stops the ...
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Failed to configure ILM, will attempt during next rerun.

I am setting up a brand new SP2010 farm. The FIM service fail to start. In log I found following. May I know how can I troubleshoot it? ILM Configuration: Setting file permissions. ILM ...
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Which FIMSynchronization Service Accounts should be used

I am having a problems with UPS I've configured it correctly on production and UAT, everything works perfectly! The problems starts when I am trying to configure UPS for both my TESING and DEV ...
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SharePoint User Profile Synchronization Service not starting

I upgraded my user profile service application from SP2010 to SP2013. I upgraded only ProfileDB and Social DB and created a new Sync DB for SP2013. After creating user profile service,when i tried to ...
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Profile being imported even if the OU containing the user is excluded

We are exluding a given OU from the profile import (OU=OLD): However, a user belonging to that OU still shows up in the people picker: Since the implementation of SharePoint here is really recent, I ...
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Not able to start FIM Services

I am trying to configured new SharePoint 2013 SP1 farm environment on one VM and another VM has sql server 2014. I am getting an issue when trying to start FIM service and FIM synchronization service ...
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Failed to configure ILM

UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Failed to configure ILM, will attempt during next rerun. Exception: System.FormatException: Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and ...
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User Profile Import from Different environment

I just wondering if there is a way to import User profile from different environment. For instance copy the user profile import from Production environment to PreProd environment. Both environment ...
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User Profile Synchronization Service does not start due to Serialization Error: "String was not recognized as a valid DateTime"

I'm Trying to start User Profile Synchronization Service on a Sharepoint 2013 system but it does not and it reports the following error in ULS: UserProfileApplication.SynchronizeMIIS: Error updating ...
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FIM Synchronization service wont start - Sharepoint 2010

User Profile Service and User Profile Synchronization services in Central Administration site is started but FIM Synchorization Service is stopped. When i try to start it, gave me this error: ...
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User Profile Service - missing user profiles from AD

I have 2 SP 2013 SP1 environments, testing and production. Both have user profile service application (using FIM agent) configure to get profiles from AD. Both the farms have similar service ...
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FIM Syncronization Services fails to start - User Profile Synchronization won't start

User Profile Synchronization was working ok and after one restart FIM Synchronization Services fails to start and User Profile Synchronization won't start. I have follow harbar.net article for setting ...
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Change language on SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1

Can you change the core language? I managed to download a Swedish version of SharePoint Foundation 2013 SP1 and install it. Now I'm having problem with installing Forefront Identity Manager portal ...
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Both AD Import and SharePoint 2013 AD Sync (with FIM) fail to import users

2 Server Environment: SharePoint 2013 On Server 2008 R2 SQL 2008 R2 AD is 2 domain servers - primary and secondary - Server 2003 w/ 2003 AD Functional Level SharePoint User Profile service is ...
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FIM Synchronization service wont start

I am trying to sync SharePoint with AD. When starting FIMsynchronizationService the below error message appears: "windows could not start the forefront identity manager >synchronization service ...
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How to Sync user data from multiple sources BDC and AD?

I have a user profile that has fields from multiple sources. fields form AD and fields from BCS -> SQL DB. Everything is working, except if the DB is down, the fields get populated with empty data. ...
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Error Creating or Editing Synchronization

Today I made the mistake of clicking "select all" on a large group of domains in a synchronization connection in the user profile service. After I saved the connection I saw this error on the ...
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Do I need FIM on a single SharePoint 2010 Server?

I have installed a SharePoint 2010 on a single server. It's a Windows Server 2008 Active Directory. Do I need FIM installed? I currently see both services as Disabled And since I have an issue ...
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User Profile Sync - User Names displayed as MVID=

Noticed that during the final couple stages of an incremental active directory sync for my user profile service, the FIM Synchronization Service Manager lists the users distinguished names as MVID=(...
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AD Sync strange behavior

Sync is running fine. It updates and adds users. However, some of the employees in the same OU are not being added when FIM runs. Any reason for this?
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User Profile full sync overwrites AD and SharePoint with old values for Title property

I have configured a User Profile Service Application to export the Job Title attribute to the Active Directory "title" property. The SharePoint Title property is not configured to import or export it'...
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FIM throwing massive errors on AD Synchronization

since 5 days we are running into massive errors, when our AD synch is running. The error code from the event viewer looks like this: EventID 6801 The extensible extension returned an unsupported ...
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Profile Synchronization exception in FIM

I get the following exception when performing user profile synchronization in FIM to import user profiles from Novell eDirectory to our SharePoint 2010 server. System.NotSupportedException: ...
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Post upgrade - FIM Sync issue

Upgraded my production farm to FEB 2012 CU from OCT 2010 CU a couple weeks ago and things went ok for the most part nothing major issue wise, however I ran a full sync in my User Profile Service ...
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