One of the most popular script on this blog is the Profile Picture Import. I’ve helped a few people configure this to running daily or weekly depending on how many frequently you would like the profiles to be updated from Active Directory. Identify the service account The easiest way to have this script to run […]
Author: Adam.Sorenson
SharePoint Support Escalation Engineer
Over 10 years supporting SharePoint OnPrem
MIM Portal fails to load after changing Masterpage or Theme
If you’re unable to do anything in the MIM portal, you might want to check your master page settings. Many times, Admins will change the Look and Feel of the site collection that MIM Portal is provisioned on. This will change the master page which will toss this nice error on almost every link in […]
SharePoint – ADI Mappings
We have been seeing more issues with Active Directory Import (ADI) in the recent months due to the confusion of mappings. My colleague, Josh, wrote a great article on the issue with Work Email not populating. Upgrading from 2013 or FIM to ADI Mappings in 2013 with using the User Profile Synchronization Service (FIM) showed […]
PowerShell Script: Check user profiles
I have been asked many times how to check if Active Directory Import is working. With User Profile Synchronization, we had the FIM client to show what was updated during the MOSS_Export step. The script I wrote uses DirSync which allows for incremental checks against Active Directory. This will create a cookie.bin that will keep […]
SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 5 User Profiles
SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 1 Planning SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 2 Trusted Identity SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 3 Migration SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 4 Web Applications SharePoint SAML Migration Guide – Part 5 User Profiles The User Profiles are usually overlooked when migrating to SAML. This will […]