Category: User Profiles

Keeping SharePoint happy during your domain migration

We’ve seen a few of different problems occur in SharePoint (2013, 2016, 2019) when users are being migrated from one domain to another. They usually come up in one of the following areas: People Picker People Picker may show either or both accounts depending on which domain SharePoint is in, and how PP is configured

SharePoint – Connecting MIM to SharePoint over HTTPS

Consider the following scenario: You set up Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016. You install the SharePoint Connector software and create a SharePoint Management Agent (MA). On the “Connectivity” page of the SharePoint MA, you attempt to create a connection to a SharePoint 2016 or 2019 farm using an HTTPS (SSL / TLS) address. The connection

SharePoint: Why are active users returned by GetNonImportedObjects?

As discussed in my previous posts about user profile cleanup for SharePoint 2013 and SharePoint 2016, when using Active Directory Import, the profile cleanup process is a bit more manual as compared to FIM Sync. It consists of three steps that need to be done periodically to keep things cleaned up: 1. Run a Full

SharePoint: Capture MIM traffic with Fiddler

Microsoft Identity manager (MIM) communicates with SharePoint via a web service, specifically, the “ProfileImportExportService” web service, located at http://YourCentralAdminSite/_vti_bin/ProfileImportExportService.asmx When there are problems with the synchronization, you should always look at what the MIM client (miisclient.exe) and the SharePoint ULS logs are saying, but sometimes there is a need to dig a little deeper and

SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 5 – 2019

  As far as I know, nothing much has changed regarding profile cleanup in SharePoint 2019 as compared to SharePoint 2016. See that post: SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 4 – 2016       This is part 5 in a series. You can find other parts here: SharePoint: The