Category: SharePoint 2016

This is an interesting “gotcha” that came up recently: Problem: The Active Directory Import (UserProfileADImportJob) timer job does not run.  It’s enabled and scheduled to run (default every 5 minutes), but never runs.The result is that the user profiles never get imported. Cause: All the servers in the farm that are running the User Profile

Problem: Consider the following scenario: You have SharePoint 2016 set up to import user profiles from Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016. You have configured User Profile Pictures (PictureURL property) to import from Active Directory Attribute ThumbnailPhoto. See my related blog post here. You run the Sync, and everything is successful including the Export sync step.

Update: 3/18/24 — Added fact: the C2WTS is deprecated in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition. Update: 3/31/22 — Added a reference to a related post from my colleague Mike: Unable to start the C2WTS Facts: 1. In SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (SPSE), the C2WTS has been deprecated. The service still shows up in Central Administration, but the

Update 11/16/22: I’ve just tested this in the latest (November 2022) builds of both SharePoint 2019 (16.0.10392.20000) and SharePoint Server Subscription Edition (16.0.15601.20226). The problem still occurs in those builds. This is a good one. It appears to be both random and intermittent (it’s actually neither), and is extremely hard to track down. It’s known

Here’s one that was a problem in SharePoint 2013, was fixed, but never ported to SharePoint 2016, so we had to fix it again. Consider the following scenario: You are importing user profiles from Active Directory (AD).  This can happen using any of the profile import methods for either SharePoint 2013 or 2016. 2013: SharePoint

Here I cover how to use Fiddler and IE Developer Tools (F12) to troubleshoot People Picker problems in SharePoint 2013 and 2016 within the context of a problem I recently came across. Problem: Certain users are not resolved in People Picker.  The client-side people picker control shows no results, but doesn’t throw an error either. 

  There are a couple known issues with user profile pictures when your Mysite web application uses Trusted Provider (ADFS / SAML) authentication. Symptoms There are two different known symptoms with the same cause and solution: #1When running User Profile Synchronization, nothing is imported or exported. In the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) client, we see