Category: Manager / Group Membership

Update 2/22/21: The problem that early SharePoint 2019 builds had with getting the timer job to process the staged manager and group membership entries, (the “NoILMUsed” issue) has been fixed. More about that in the “SharePoint 2019” section below. Update 5/21/20: Added some PowerShell and SQL queries to help determine the state of managers and

Update 2/22/21: The problem that early 2019 builds had with getting the timer job to process the staged manager and group membership entries, (the “NoILMUsed” issue) has been fixed. More about that in the “SharePoint 2019” section below. I want to thank my colleague Dhiren for doing most of the leg work to figure this

Update 4/15/20: I have now tested this with AD Import and both SharePoint 2016 and 2019. It’s the same problem in both versions. This problem manifests itself in a few different ways: You create an Audience based on “Member Of” the “Domain Users” group. You notice there are only a couple (or maybe even zero)

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

Overview: This is a fairly visible problem within SharePoint.  It can cause the organization chart to show old manager info, or not work at all.So what to do if your user profiles show no manager value, or maybe a user has changed managers, and it’s not being updated? This is a complicated topic for a

Important: This little quirk only occurs with the “SharePoint Profile Synchronization” (aka: FIM Sync) option in SharePoint 2010 and 2013.  It does not occur with the “Active Directory Import” (aka: AD Import) option available in SharePoint 2013 and 2016.  If possible, I recommend switching to AD Import.  You can read through switch considerations in my