There is not much out there about MIM and SharePoint 2016 with FBA or SAML user profiles. Using Active Directory Import is still the same as it was in 2013. Below we will be going through how to set this up for SAML(ADFS) and MIM. This guide assumes the environment has been setup from these […]
Author: Adam.Sorenson
SharePoint Support Escalation Engineer
Over 10 years supporting SharePoint OnPrem
SharePoint 2013/2016 – Migrate from Windows claims to ADFS
Many farms are moving from Windows Authentication(NTLM or Kerberos) to SAML. This migration and change requires a lot of planning. This guide is only to give a frame work of migrating some of the simpler farms. This guide also assumes that the ADFS server is already setup and just needs to be configured. The difference […]
SharePoint – FBA – 8306 – The security token username and password could not be validated.
Forms based authentication(FBA) can have general bucket errors. In this blog post, I will be going over the 8306. This one seems to stump many people and can be difficult to trouble shoot if we don’t know where to start. What flavor of FBA? FBA can come in various deployments with the backend being […]
The Pitfalls of Resetting the Config Cache
I see many SharePoint admins resetting the config cache but not knowing what it is or what it does. This seems to be a go to action for anything wrong with SharePoint along with IISReset, PSConfig, and rebooting the servers. What is the Config Cache? The config cache is a copy of your objects table […]
User Profile Picture Import with Active Directory Import(Dirsync)
UPDATE 8/16/17 My colleague, Josh, wrote a great post on his blog detailing the benefits and considerations when moving to ADI. https://joshroark.com/sharepoint-considerations-when-switching-from-fim-sync-to-ad-import/ UPDATE 1/16/19 New version of this script and details located here: https://adamsorenson.com/sharepoint-profile-picture-import-1-3/ SharePoint 2013 introduced Active Directory Import. This is built on a technology called DirSync. There are many advantages with using Active […]