The July 2026 update was released July 14, 2026. This introduced many security fixes but this can cause issues with your SAML, OIDC, or FBA implementations. This can prevent tokens from being added or read from dcache. Here are some logs from my 2019 farm:07/18/2026 12:18:03.74 w3wp.exe (0x0FF8) 0x1914 SharePoint Foundation DistributedCache air38 Medium Token […]
Category: SharePoint 2016
AuthProviderTypeChangeEnabled – Preventing migrations in User Profile Synchronization
There is new logic in the User Profile Service Application that will prevent user migration between authentication providers. This means no more migrating from Windows to Trusted Identity Provider or Trusted Identity Provider during User Profile Sync. This is only available for SharePoint Subscription Edition(SE) and SharePoint 2019 with February 2023 CU. AuthProviderTypeChangeEnabled is set […]
SharePoint 2019 – Unable to Open Visio Files in Browser
Ran into a new issue with Visio Service Application and SharePoint 2016/2019. The failure is with trying to open Visio files in the browser. The Document can’t be opened because it is not a supported Visio diagram. Make Sure that the “Web Drawing URL” web part setting is set to a valid VSDX, VSDM, or […]
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 […]