Over the last several days I’ve been dealing with a user synchronization issue. We had a situation which may be fairly common in organizations where SharePoint adoption is a slow process and not always well thought...
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I recently set up the User Profile Synchronization services on SharePoint 2010 per a great article...
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Our domain name is: “COMPANYNAME”, we log in as “COMPANYNAME\username”. If...
Read MoreMicrosoft recommends that you perform an IISRESET after starting the User Profile Synchronization Service when Central Administration is running on the same SharePoint Server as the UPSS. However, this can be problematic...
Read MoreOccasionally I run into issues where an employee leaves a company and then comes back, this is especially true of companies that use a lot of contractors who come and go. There are times when a user exists in the...
Read MoreWhat’s going on under the hood when synchronizing data from a directory source into SharePoint? The “User” in the User Profile Service In a typical business system, a user is determined by the identity presented to the system....
Read MoreSo this bit me the other day. I had set up the User Profile Synchronization Service service and it started correctly: Everything looked good, but when I went in to kick off a sync, I got the standard SharePoint 2010 error...
Read MoreA common problem many colleagues have had is their user profile Synchronization service getting stuck on ‘starting’, this occurs for lots of reasons, including some well meaning admin seeing the service stopped on a server and...
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