Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

re: Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

JAdkin — Mon, 13 May 2013 16:30:02 GMT

Hey Chris,

When an Admin gets "Object reference not set to an instance of an object." it is because they can not retrieve the information, this is usually due to incorrect permissions on the UPA.

Fix:

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Go to Central Administration

Select Application Management

Under Service Application select Manage Service Applications

Highlight your User Profile

Select Administrators and you are probably listed there (If not then add account)

Select User Permissions and add yourself there as well. (You will only get Full permission option)

Yes you actually need both or you will fail.

Awesome article!

Jeff

re: Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

Soumyadev — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 07:28:49 GMT

Hi,

Can you please explain how this property value can be interpretted in sharepoint 2013?

In Sharepoint 2013 the value is stored as integer and if multiple checkboxes are checked then it is returning a single integer value.

I couldn't find a documentation from MS on how to interpret this.

Thanks,

Soumyadev

re: Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

Srikanth — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:25:47 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for nice article.

For new USers how to disable this property? Do we need to run after adding new user or is there any work around?

Regards

Srikanth

re: Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

Chris We - MSFT — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:35:28 GMT

Hello Adam,

I would suggest that you look at the following items since I believe that your not getting the correct Service Context

1. Do you have at least full read on the Site Collection that you are pointing to?

2. Insure you are pointing at the Site Collection object (http://webapp/sitecollection/) and not a list, page or library.

3. Insure that the Site Collection has the UPA included in it's proxy group

4. You have to have the proper permissions on the UPA so either add your account or use an elevated account.

Let me know if this helps or if you get other errors.

Thank you,

Chris Weaver

re: Use PowerShell to Edit SharePoint Profiles

Adam — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 10:02:22 GMT

I've been trying to do this but I keep getting an error when creating the UserProfileManager object:

New-Object : Exception calling ".ctor" with "1" argument(s): "Object reference not set to an instance of an object."

At line:1 char:29

+ $ProfileManager = new-object <<<< Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($ServiceContext)

+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (:) [New-Object], MethodInvocationException

+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ConstructorInvokedThrowException,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.NewObjectCommand

My $ServiceContext object looks like this:

SiteSubscriptionId : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Any ideas?