SharePoint: People Picker error: “user does not exist or is not unique” – similar account names

Consider the following scenario: SharePoint 2013 or 2016 servers are in the contoso.com domain contoso.com has a trust relationship with the corp.fabrikam.com domain. The peoplepicker-searchadforests property is configured like this: “forest:contoso.com;forest:corp.fabrikam.com,corp\SPadmin,*****“ You use People Picker to find a user. If the users account name (samAccountName) is unique, you have no issues adding it to SharePoint.

SharePoint 2016: AD Import Profile Property Mappings aka: my profiles are missing email address

Update 4/10/20: We’ve found a number of customers manually mapping profile properties for AD Import because that’s what they had done in previous versions of SharePoint using FIM Sync. There can be problems in certain scenarios when doing this. For example, if you manually map “WorkEmail” property to the “proxyAddresses” AD attribute, that explicit mapping

SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 4 – 2016

This is part 4 in a series. You can find other parts here: SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part1 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 2 – 2010 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 3 – 2013 SharePoint: The complete guide to user

SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 3 – 2013

This is part 3 in a series. You can find other parts here: SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part1 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 2 – 2010 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 4 – 2016 SharePoint: The complete guide to user

SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 2 – 2010

This is part 2 in a series. You can find other parts here: SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part1 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 3 – 2013 SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 4 – 2016 SharePoint: The complete guide to user

SharePoint: The complete guide to user profile cleanup – Part 1

Part 1: High-level Concepts If you have certain users that still show in the organization chart web part or “people search” results after being deleted or disabled in Active Directory, then it’s likely that the process to automatically clean up those user profiles is not working. Throughout the lifetime of SharePoint, there have been several