Comments on: User Profiles: Why do my changes not show in other sites?

By: Adil Baig

Adil Baig — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 10:56:51 +0000

Hi,
I think my profile sync has overwritten the profiles but not sure. ne ways, bottom line is user had 'about me' field in the edit page but now they dont after i run a profile import.
I did what the post says.. i unchecked the replicable, also i checked user can override. and set the data source to “not mapped”. but on saving the settings for property. i come back on the user info list and my edit page still dont hjave that property.
important note: my site is enabled but my users are not using it. they are new and still comfortable with the edit page. but now the problem is.. half the perprty they had previously are not there any more.
MOSS profile is surely complicated nad frustating!!

By: Neil Hodgkinson

Neil Hodgkinson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:01:05 +0000

Lars. Just wanted to comment on your comment.

The Preparetomove operation was deprecated as part of the changes in the Infrastructure Updates, not SP1. It does catch a lot of people out though so thanks for adding it to this excellent post.

By: AndrewWoody

AndrewWoody — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:48:56 +0000

Thanks Lars, this is definately a new one on me.

By: Lars Bo

Lars Bo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:45:33 +0000

Great post Andrew,

It sums up all relevant information regarding profile synchronisation I have seen. However, having read this and countless other blogs we were still having problems. It turned out that an “STSADM -o preparetomove” command that no one remembered issuing two years back had flagged our portal for no synchronisation. This will rarely be the case, but in case anyone finds themselves in a similar situation here is a good post on the subject:

http://blogs.gotdotnet.com/toddca/archive/2009/...

The solution was running STSADM -o preparetomove with the -undo parameter (note that this is only valid for pre SP1 systems).

By: Billoo

Billoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:15:17 +0000

Hi Andrew,
I am facing a similar problem. The user's title was changed and it is displaying the new title in his mysite, but in “People and Groups “, his old details are displayed.
Action Performed
stsadm -o sync
Profile Import Full and incremental
Any inputs would help

By: Anthony Sheldrake

Anthony Sheldrake — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:48:27 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this one up. The concept of an active user was a new one on me so it’d have taken me a long time to get to the bottom of this problem without your post.

By: bekz

bekz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:41:59 +0000

Hi Andrew,

Do you know how the Sync by Full/incremental timer identify the user info enty in WSS web application. i.e. SSP has the details stored in SSP DBs now what is the key in mapping the user profile in SSP to WSS web app?

Really cool article and appreciate your efforts!

Regrads
bekz

By: nuts

nuts — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:51:44 +0000

Awesome detail !!!

Well Andrew I am facing an issue where USERINFO table of my particular (Individual) web application has own detail about “SHAREPOINT\SYSTEM” where Display name should be System Account.
But in my case for some of the web application it showing different name and for some its coming with System Account.

As this is SharePoint\System account it dosent required to get updated from the UserProfile_Full table of SSP . That is what I understood ( correct me if i am wrong)

When i checked the USERINFO table of particular web application is showing me the diffrent name so question is does it make sense to change manually in that table of database ? if not than is there any way i can get rid of this problem.

Let me know if you need more information and Thanks in advance.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:37:56 +0000

great post. Since you’ve looked at ssp and profile properties more than most, I’m hoping you’ll entertain my question.

I’m having trouble getting my ssp profile to reflect at the site level for seemingly active users. These are profile settings which should be replicating according to the ssp. It did work perfectly well for a day, which upsets me farther.

I did find a 3rd party sync tool on codeplex, which isn’t the most efficient, but it does get the job done–however it only works on old profiles, created before the ‘break’. Have you ever heard of any of this? it’s madness. both my ssp’s have the same issue, and there is no connectivity problem updating the ssp from the applications below it. No errors anywhere I’ve seen, sync jobs say they’re working fine.

By: Andrew Woodward

Andrew Woodward — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:57:04 +0000

Sync is one way it takes information from AD and populates SharePoint, you really need to look at a solution for getting the AD information correct or reducing the information you sync where it is know to be incorrect in AD.