I’ve written several blog posts on the “Check Permissions” function and its reliance on the “External Token”, including one for SharePoint 2013 with Windows authentication, which you may consider as some good pre-reading to this post, as it discusses the External Token and the details around trying to refresh that token non-interactively. Suffice to say

Today I’m writing about a little-known SharePoint People Picker property that can influence your People Picker results. First some background: In SharePoint 2010, People Picker searched all two-way trusted Active Directory (AD) forests by default. In SharePoint 2013 and above, only the local forest is queried, but similar to Exchange, we also leverage the mxExchMasterAccountSid

  When using Trusted Provider (SAML / WS-Fed) authentication within SharePoint, we use a browser cookie to keep you authenticated. The default name of that cookie is “FedAuth”. If you have multiple web applications and / or multiple SharePoint farms that use Trusted Provider auth, using the same cookie name for all of them can

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

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

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

  Consider the following scenario: Your users authenticate to SharePoint using “Trusted Provider” authentication. This is also known as SAML or WS-Fed authentication, typically provided by AD FS, Ping Federate, Okta, SiteMinder, etc. After SharePoint upgrade or security patching, users are no longer able to authenticate. They may see a “Server Error in ‘/’ Application”