Sometimes the User Profile Synchronization service may not start properly, stucks in starting mode or simply remains in a "stale" state. Also it may happen, when you have used a PowerShell Script but with some missing or incorrect settings, which then will cause the sync service to fail as well. So...

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it is some time ago, I was working on a case with a problem on using the Move-SPProfileManagedMetadataProperty cmdlet. As per TechNet: “Perform post-upgrade steps for an in-place upgrade (SharePoint Server 2010)” - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc262889.aspx <excerpts>...

Some time ago, I worked on a case, where the membership displayed on the MySite ran out of sync. ISSUE On My Site page ( …/MyMemberships.aspx…) we usually see the memberships to sites the user is a member of (see figure below): For some reason, we still have memberships for...

Yesterday, a good fellow (Zsolt Illes) notified me about the new cmdlets, introduced by SharePoint 2010 SP1 and that this information is available and published on Spencer Harbar’s blog with more details. Here’s just a short “cut out” for your convenience, by courtesy of Zsolt...

From a recent support incident, I stumbled over an interesting thing… Consider the following: Your User profile service application and the Profile import and Sync is working like a charm but for some reason, we get bulks of Event warnings in the application log… so we dived into it...

Recently we have found a new issue with the “My Profile” page and there especially with the “AskMeAbout – Web part”. How found? You have installed a SharePoint 2010 (Build 5123 or higher) in english and additionally you have installed the SharePoint language packs...

As a follow up to my previous post on " User Profile Sync - SharePoint 2010 ", I'll wrap up with some very good links and other currently known issues we discovered with User profile sync stuff in SharePoint 2010. If you have not started to setup and configure the User profile Service at all, don...

We had an issue with Running Central Administration over SSL as already posted by Spencer. Good News! There is a fix in work and is in planning for the October CU! ( KB 2394320 ) What is the issue?: When you have changed your Central Administration (CA) to listen on Port 443 / SSL and you have...

Today I’ll notify you about an issue I recently discovered when you delete the user property SPS-Local (Office location) in SharePoint 2010 which breaks then the My Profile page! Action: You have User profile service application provisioned and a running user profile import connection. The My...

Symptom You have a running User Profile synchronization Service, configured with an Active Directory connection and in addition a Business Data Catalog (BDC or also known as Business Connectivity Service - BCS). You have the User profiles from the Active Directory connection mapped to the Business...

After you have installed the hotfix package 2352342 or 2281364 in SharePoint Server 2010, the Event ID 3 Error is logged. We observed, that after applying the august CU the following error shows up in bulks in the event application log of the server the User Profile Synchronization service is running...

Since RTM Release, we had lot’s of cases regarding problems with “user profile synchronization service” in SharePoint 2010 RTM. There is already many stuff out there about it and some of them are very good, some others are not so good. I completely revised (more revoked) my post to...