Temp-Contract Worker User Profile Synchronization in SharePoint 2013

Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone could provide some feedback on what is the best practice for configuring Temp or Contract worker user profile services in SharePoint 2013. We have had lot of issues within MySites when we make these types of workers AD account inactive
and then active again when they come back on projects. The user profile synchronization does not work correctly and MySites has issues loading the profile etc. Also in the same context are there best practices for Name/Title/Department changes as well.
thank you for your feedback!
AJ
Ajay Mandal

Given what you describe I assume you've created a user profile Sync connection filter to remove disabled AD accounts from the user profile sync. That's why you are running into problems. When a user is missing from the import their profile is
deleted within an hour or so, but their MySite isn't deleted for 14 days (to allow time for a manager to clean it off). If the user is reactivated within the 14 day period their old mySite is still there, but is no longer referenced by the new profile
that is created. So When the user goes to their profile it tries to create a new mySite where one already exists. It can't do that.
The same thing will happen if you delete the contractor's user account, but then recreate them in AD when they return. The only way to fix it is to make sure both the profile and mySite site collection in /Personal/ have been deleted before re-adding
an old contractor.
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Hi Prakash,
Use the script in this blog to retrive user profile properties from a certain section.
http://stevemannspath.blogspot.in/2013/05/sharepoint-20102013-using-powershell-to.html
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Next, we loop through the profiles and retrieve the account name (for identification purposes) and the property we are interested in finding:
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FULL SCRIPT
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[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.SharePoint")
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint.Administration")
[void][System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Sharepoint.Taxonomy")
[System.Reflection.Assembly]::LoadWithPartialName("Microsoft.Office.Server")
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$profileTypeProp.IsVisibleOnViewer = $true
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} else {
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Write-Host "Unable to connect to term store"
} else {
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Need more effort to change this code to work for your requirement.
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Emir
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Most of them, yes. What are you specifically looking to do?
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The full packages are available:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/stefan_gossner/archive/2014/05/08/april-2014-cu-for-sharepoint-2013-has-finally-been-released.aspx
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Anyone tried using LDIF file in the User Profile Synchronization Process?

Microsoft pushied an article recently talking about using LDIF file in the SharePoint's user profile synchronization.
Configure profile synchronization using a Lightweight Directory Interchange Format (LDIF) file (SharePoint Server 2010) http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff959234.aspx
Currently I am unable to obtain the required "Replicate Directory Change" permission set up by the AD admin. So I thought of exploring this alternative since I still have AD search permission right now.
So far, I was able to set up the MOSSLDAP-LDIFMA, and use an import.ldif file to add, remove and update user profiles. However, there are some problems that I can't resolve. One of key problems is, the LDIF-imported records can't be
sync'd with login-based records.
In my environment, when a user login SharePoint via Windows authentication, a new profile would be added, under the account name "domain\username". Meanwhile, when an LDIF record imported, there will be another profile created under the account
name "domain:domain\username", or "domain:username". That is, there would be two profiles for each user.
Based on my understanding, it is very likely the user profile synchronization is based on the user's account name. But in document and sample files provided, I can't find out any clue how to prepare the ldif file so that it will update the
matching records, instead of creating new ones.
Any help? Thanks in advance.

Has anyone managed to get this to work?
It's nice that Microsoft offers the ability to import user profiles via LDIF into SharePoint, but it is useless if the account name is not correct after the import. I have tried multiple imports from the LDIF to get a user account to show up as "domain\username" but
it always ends up as "domain:domain\username", or "domain:username". or a variation
of these 2 with a colon separating the domain form the username. i see that multiple people have had the same problem, but unfortunetaly can't seem to find a solution. Also I see Bradley mentions that he was able to import accounts using get-QADUser,
but he doesnt mention what the accounts import as or if it resolved the domain colon issue.
Thanks in advance for any help or information anyone can provide.
cheers,
Zed

User Profiles Synchronization Error Event id 5553 - Every hour

I am getting these 2 events logged in the event viewer when the user profile synch is attempted:
First event:
Second Event: (although we don't always get this error with the one above)
failure trying to synch site 6c02f82c-2029-4ca0-990b-d14786b95d88 for ContentDB 8185106e-233e-4302-bbc5-d0fb2252c64a WebApp 2b659ceb-e7b4-46d4-b2a1-1a9679a357c3. Exception message was Cannot insert duplicate key row in object 'dbo.UserMemberships' with
unique index 'CX_UserMemberships_RecordId_MemberGroupId_SID'.
The statement has been terminated..
Does anyone know why this is happening and how it can be fixed?
failure trying to synch site a12d2e6b-8227-45cd-b232-594f70d1abd1 for ContentDB 1fa8ce0f-f219-4f43-af9f-c5dc57257f4d WebApp 54c24445-8543-493c-857b-5a57df27c722. Exception message was Procedure or function profilesynch_MS_DeleteWeb has too many arguments
specified.
The 'profilesynch_MS_UpdateWeb' procedure attempted to return a status of NULL, which is not allowed. A status of 0 will be returned instead..

When I run the stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases 5 <- no matter whst number is here I get:
"A failure occurred during the processing of this command. Check diagnostic logs for more information."
There is nothing in the ULS logs
Same problem here.
Hoping this will fix a slightly different issue though. My issue is the profile doesn't update with changes in Active Directory and therefore there isn't anything new for the content databases
to sync with.
If I delete my personal profile in the UPS Service -> Manage User Profiles and then click on MySite -> MyProfile it recreates my profile with the new Active Directory values
(without having to do a UPS Sync) and I don't know why these values exist but of cause in doing this I lose all the non AD imported values.
I've been working on this for nearly a week now. I've learnt a lot about the UPS but still no solution. Great article on how the Sync works by the way if anyone is interested can be found here
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/spsocial/archive/2010/05/04/conceptual-view-of-how-user-profile-synchronization-works-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx
I have been recommended to perform stsadm -o sync -deleteolddatabases in the following post but I am unable to do so.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepointadmin/thread/bc3cd2ff-dc12-4223-a80b-e4cae616e861

User Profile Synchronization not displaying Title field correctly

Hello,
I've an issue with User Profile Synchronization (SP 2010). The Title field is displaying correctly for most of the users but still there are few user for them the Title field is blank. However in "User Information List" it displays the Title field
properly for those users. But in Central Administration when I check the User Profiles it's blank.I have already run Full Profile Synchronization few times in Central Administrations. Every time it's shows as successful but still no luck, still the Title field
is blank for some profiles.
Can anybody help on this? Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
Firstly , I need to verify the followings:
Whether the title field of user information list is changed if you type a value in user profile page and perform full sync.
Whether you have upgraded to SharePoint 2010.
If you have upgraded to SharePoint 2010, you need to make sure the user information list is mapped or connected to AD directly. More information, please refer to the post below:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sharepoint/en-US/926abf50-83a0-4e9c-a4cb-4848fcf4f88d/sharepoint-2010-userprofile-title-field-empty?forum=sharepointgeneralprevious
If this issue still exists, please create a new User Profile Services Application, and compare the result.
Here are some similar posts for you to take a look at:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/0b9b5747-80b2-4a2e-8e8e-c918bc9d6cbd/user-profile-synchronization-not-working-correctly?forum=sharepointadmin
http://blog-sharepoint.blogspot.in/2010/08/user-information-list-not-synchronised.html
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Wendy
Wendy Li
TechNet Community Support

How to start user profile synchronization services

Hi i am not able to start "user profile synchronization service"
When i click on Start user profile, it will show starting, after few minutes again it will stop.
How to resolve this

Check permission of service account used for the user profile/sync service application.
Ref link: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9062721a-4066-42f9-bd90-8c2376abad5e/user-profile-synchronization-service-got-stuck-in-starting-mode-and-stops-after-a-few-minutes?forum=sharepointadminprevious
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PowerShell script doesn't appear to work as scheduled task in sharepoint 2013

PowerShell script doesn't appear to work as scheduled task in sharepoint 2013, it works as normal manual execution
MCTS Sharepoint 2010, MCAD dotnet, MCPDEA, SharePoint Lead

Hi,
To run PowerShell Script as scheduled task in SharePoint 2013, you can take the demo below for a try:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/meamcs/archive/2013/02/23/sharepoint-2013-backup-with-powershell-and-task-scheduler-for-beginners.aspx
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Patrick Liang
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User Profile Synchronization for FBA Users in SharePoint 2010: Any successes?

Ok, so I've got my user profiles importing using forms authentication and my configured authentication provider (ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider) and profiles are importing (account name is domain\username).
However when the user logs in they don't receive this profile. Instead a second one is created in the format i:0#.f|provider|username and is not synced to their AD account (our business requirements require that we use FBA for authentication against Active
Directory).
Has anyone tried or had any success in syncing FBA profiles?

I opened a support case on this issue and talked with Microsoft support (for 5 days).
What they told me is that you can NOT have both Windows accounts and FBA LDAP accounts both synchronize with the same Active Directory. The reason they say is that the account GUIDs are the same and the UPS will see that as a duplicate so it does not add
the LDAP account after the same Windows account has been synchronized into the profile database.
They tell me I have to write a script to synchronize the FBA LDAP accounts. I told them this is a product defect and I shouldn't have to write a script to do what the Profile Service is suppose to do out of the box. Microsoft needs to provide a hotfix for
this defect.
Andy Fitch

The User profile synchronization Full , runs for 1 second successfully

Hi!
On our sharepoint 2013 farm we can run the user profile incremental synchronzation timer job without issues, it runs for about 2-3 min.
However when trying to run a Full import, we observe that the full user profile synchhronization job only runs for a second and is finished. There must be something wrong..
The user profile service and synchronzation service are up and running. The connections to Active directory are present and working (incremental synchronization works).
Have anyone experienced this?
brgs
Bjorn

Hello Bjorn,
You should not run Full incremental until anything on UPA is broken. It should be only ran in case of disaster and recovery.
Thank You, Pallav S. Srivastav ----- If this helped you resolve your issue, please mark it Answered.

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