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SharePoint User Profile is a centralized hub in SharePoint that stores and manages user information, allowing for better collaboration and personalized experiences within the platform. Discover how to use SharePoint User Profile to manage and organize user information with these comprehensive guides.
How to Start SharePoint user profile synchronization? To start user profile Synchronization manually, do the following: Go to SharePoint Central Administration >> Application Management >> click Manage service applications. On the Manage Service Applications >> click in the Name column of the User Profile Service Application In Manage Profile Service page >>…
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Problem: SharePoint workflows failed because the user has no email address! You can get the user’s Email address with this PowerShell one-liner: The solution is simple! SharePoint user has no email address, so add the email address to users to resolve the issue! How to update SharePoint user email address? Maybe you…
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Problem:Â I had a requirement to setup a new SharePoint 2010 environment. After everything, created a user profile service application to get users synced. Got “MOSS MA not found” error on adding a synchronization connection while configuring user profile service application. Solution: Go to Services Console (Start >> Administrator Tools >> Services) and…
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Problem:We found discrepancies in user properties between AD and SharePoint. E.g. User’s display name property is updated in Active Directory. But SharePoint still shows the old display name for the user. How to Sync User Display Name from Active Directory to SharePoint?Ideally, a proper SharePoint user profile sync setup should avoid these…
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We must enable NetBIOS for User Profile Service Application in SharePoint when Fully Qualified Domain Name is different than NetBIOS name. Ok. How to find NetBIOS name of your domain? Login to your Domain controller >> Open : Active Directory Users and Computers” (Shortcut: dsa.msc) Right-click on your domain in the left…
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Replicating directory changes permission is a requirement to configure User Profile Service Application(UPS) in SharePoint 2010 and for SharePoint 2013. We’ve to grant replicate directory changes permission on a domain to our service account which crawls and syncs AD contracts to SharePoint. Here is the step by step instructions to provide “Replicating…
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Problem: Few consultants left the company after their contract is over. Their AD account was deleted, They are removed from SharePoint site collections even. But still, SharePoint People picker showing deleted users! Root cause: Because, People picker gets users NOT only from AD, But from “User Information List” of the site collection…
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It happens sometimes. SharePoint 2007 profile import job get stuck at enumerating or importing stage and forever without an end! The remedy is simple! Just restart the Office SharePoint service! Here is how: Login to your App server, where Search service is running Go to Start >> Administration Tools >> Services (or…
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We had a user account in Active Directory: EU\susanapi. Later there was a change in User name. It become: EU\suzanapi. But even after several user profile imports, the old user name: EU\susanapi was still showing up in SharePoint, and SharePoint treated the new user account as a separate account. What is the…
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My Organization decided to use Active Directory as a central repository for user profile photos to share with Lync 2010, Outlook and of course SharePoint! Lets keep other products aside and talk about How to Import User Pictures from Active Directory to SharePoint 2010 My Site. Here is the default My site…
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