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 […]
Category: User Profiles
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 […]
SharePoint 2016/2019 MIM not updating Multivalue Properties
User profiles that are syncing Multivalued properties with BDC, AD, etc. will not be pulled into the SPMA(SharePoint Management Agent) during the Delta Import step after modification or deletion of the values. Under the Hood The first step is to step Fiddler to capture the MIM server sending the request to Central Admin. […]