SharePoint Profile Cleanup

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

Suneel — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 10:59:51 GMT

Hi,

I have a server where full import is done followed by a incremental import every time.

The requirement is to delete the inactive/orphaned user profiles rom SSP.

The issue I am facing is I am not able to identify the inactive/orphaned users from the profile list.

Do we have any command line statement or any other option to identify an inactive/orphaned user profile in SSP?

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

thank you for this article — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:33:23 GMT

I have close to 200,000 profiles when I know my true user base is around a 1/20th of that. I want to perform this operation, but worried I might accidently remove changes to user profiles from mysites, like description.

BTW, I i get the expected 150k + users in profiles not in the last import, will I be able to delete them from the GUI.

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

Neel — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:06:44 GMT

my sync with AD is working fine except it is not pulling the pictures in the AD.

Here is my issue, we have photos of all employees stored as xyz.jpg in the custom attribute (emp_pics_2001) with type string, but the picture url type is url (is this the culprit type change), I am using the custom attribute to map the field in the Sharepoint 2010 miis client.

I am using the below url to do the set up: goodbadtechnology.blogspot.com/.../setting-up-pictureurl-user-profile.html

i did check the profile db picture url field is NULL, i have all the other values for person except the picture.. , I have already wasted more than 2 days in figuring this out

If i just get xyz.jpg pulled to sharepoint, then i can prefix a url in front of it using powershell

I am using a full trusted service account with full permissions to the domain

please help me out..

thank you

Neel

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

Knox Cameron — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 05:03:10 GMT

In SharePoint 2003, user profiles were deleted after being missing from three full profile imports. Apparently, this changed in 2007, but this change has never been formally documented.

In 2007, the My Site Cleanup job also goes through all profiles marked "missing from import" and attempts to look up the user in AD. If it can't find the user, it deletes the profile. See blogs.msdn.com/.../how-it-works-moss-2007-automatic-user-profile-removal.aspx.

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

Bright Sky — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 21:20:29 GMT

Great Article!

I have the same issue as Kkirkpat described above. Even though I'm deleting a profile manually from the 'profile missing from import' the same profile is reappearing after the profile crawl. How can I get rid of these MOSS profiles permanently?

Any suggestion would be appreciated.

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

dropkic — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:21:40 GMT

Excellent post! This post and the link to the white paper clears it up for me. Thanks!

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

kkirkpat — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:06:30 GMT

I have a question regarding how the User Profiles actually get "cleared out".

Steps Taken...

1. created new LDAP Filter to limit a number of user profiles that match.

2. Ran Full User Import (Now am showing about 10,000 User Profiles that show up under "Profiles Missing from Import")

3. Manually ran 3 or 4 more Full User Imports. (User Profiles continue to show up under "Profiles Missing from Import").

When does Sharepoint actually delete these missing user profiles? Is there a step I am missing?

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

smearp — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 21:53:58 GMT

Thanks for catching that Chris... you are absolutely correct. I have updated the post :)

-Sean

re: SharePoint Profile Cleanup

chrislovesdana — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:04:13 GMT

Great post. I'm working on this right now and it was extremely helpful. Of note here is the fact that the MySite will only be deleted if the Automatic Site Deletion is enabled. This is located at:

Central Administration > Application Management > Site Use Confirmation and Deletion