FIM Modification type

Question

We're using FIM to bring over attributes from account forests into an exchange 2010 resource forest.  Over the past few weeks we noticed that updates to existing users in the accounts domain are not coming through.  When looking under Management
Agent Operations we noticed that when changes to existing users in the accounts domain are trying to sync the modification type is set to Add instead of None.  This results in the attribute changes not coming across b/c FIM thinks this is a new user in
resource forest.  How do I change it so the modification type goes back to none instead of add.

Answer 1

1. Make sure you have such user in metaverse - in a console, pick Metaverse Search and search such user.
2. Check your join rules in Management Agent's properties - if user exists in a metaverse, find attribute or attributes that could say if userA in metaverse is exactly the same person as User15 from DomainB (maybe use UserPrincipalName or adGuid ?)
3. Pick one of adds and generate full synchronization preview. Check if it has joined to existing metaverse object. If so, invoke Full Synchronization on this agent. There should be a lot of "Joins".
Once joined, users would be "updated" instead of "added".
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