I have a post about the Migration from Windows to ADFS which utilizes the creation of the -UseDefaultConfiguration switch. A few days ago, I created a Trusted Identity Provider with -UseDefaultConfiguration. I did not need it in my test farm anymore, so it was time to delete it. This failed with this exception: PS […]
Author: Adam.Sorenson
SharePoint Support Escalation Engineer
Over 10 years supporting SharePoint OnPrem
Unable to start User Profile Service Application – Starting
The User Profile Synchronization service for SharePoint 2010 or 2013 can fail to start for numerous reasons. This post is for when the User Profile Service Application(UPA) is stuck on Starting. This prevents anybody from creating connections or syncing users. This will prevent the User Profile Service Application from functioning properly. ULS shows the topology.svc […]
SAML roles and SharePoint 2016/2013 with OAuth
Roles (security groups) with SAML/ADFS will not work with OAuth without some more configuration and patching. OAuth affects 2013 Workflows, Office Web Apps, Provider Hosted Apps, Cross Farm Publishing/Consuming scenarios, Hybrid, etc. There are a few steps and requirements that are needed for this to work. KB 3203164 has some great information on this topic […]
Migrate Users (Move-SPUser) when moving from Windows to SAML/FBA
When adding another authentication provider to a web application like ADFS(SAML) or FBA(LDAP), SharePoint sees these users and roles(groups) as entirely different users and groups than Windows counterparts. The backend Active Directory might be the same along with usernames and passwords but to SharePoint these are different users. Different Users, Different Permissions I’ve deployed ADFS […]
Deleting User Profiles Using PowerShell
There are many reasons why we would want to use a PowerShell shell script to delete user profiles. We don’t want to use or trust the My Site Cleanup job. We have a batch of stub user profiles that need to be deleted. We just want to delete some user profiles for testing purposes. We […]