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Rashid Aziz | SharePoint 2010 time zones setting programmatically. SharePoint SPRegionalSettings.GlobalTimeZones ID List. Adjusting DateTime according UserProfile TimeZone and Server regional Settings in SharePoint - Saurabh Khatri. My Sites troubleshooting. Published: March 24, 2011 This article provides information to help IT professionals troubleshoot My Sites We encourage you to give us your feedback.

Your comments, suggestions, and troubleshooting tips can be incorporated into future versions of this content. You can send your feedback to us at ITSPDOCS@microsoft.com. When the SharePoint administrator creates and configures My Sites for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010, he or she, or end users, might encounter any of the following error messages or issues: When the SharePoint administrator tries to enable self-service site creation for the Web application that hosts My Sites, he or she might encounter this error message.

This error can occur when the Web application that hosts My Sites does not have a site collection at root path. My Sites require that a site collection exist at the Web application root (which displays as / in the user interface). To resolve this error, in Central Administration, do the following: Troubleshooting SharePoint (People) Search 101. I’ve been nerding it up lately SharePointwise, doing the geeky things that geeks like to do like ADFS and Claims Authentication. So in between trying to get my book fully edited ready for publishing, I might squeeze out the odd technical SharePoint post. Today I had to troubleshoot a broken SharePoint people search for the first time in a while. I thought it was worth explaining the crawl process a little and talking about the most likely ways in which is will break for you, in order of likelihood as I see it.

There are articles out on this topic, but none that I found are particularly comprehensive. Background stuff If you consider yourself a legendary IT pro or SharePoint god, feel free to skip this bit. When you provision a search service application as part of a SharePoint installation, you are asked for (among other things), a windows account to use for the search service. You can see this in the screenshots below. How people search works (a little more advanced) Right! Make sense? Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453.

Error: Replication access was denied. error code: 8453 Reason: You will get this error, while you are trying to crawl the people from Active directory in SharePoint 2010. During the people search configuration, the the number of people will not be crawled in SharePoint 2010. C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe In this tool, if you "Run" the Profile Import, under the "Operations" tab, you will get the above error message. Solution: The resolve this issue, we must provide the access rights to the service account of the "User Profiles" service. The user should have the "Replicating Directory Changes" Permission in the active directory. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Thats it... Rational Guide to implementing SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Synchronization. Print | posted on Friday, April 23, 2010 7:47 PM Introduction There's a ton of stuff out there on User Profile Sync in SharePoint Server 2010.

Some of it’s good, some of it’s frankly terrible. TechNet has some of the best material, but unfortunately TechNet’s format restrictions are counter-intuitive. Therefore this article presents an end to end, “rational guide” to setting this up. [UPDATE: 01/10/2010] TechNet has recently updated its Configure profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) topic, which is greatly improved and now a first class resource.

I urge you to check this out. There are a couple of contentious setup requirements in here. You should really read the Architecture Overview below to become acquainted with the moving parts involved, but if you are impatient, you can skip to the procedure itself. If you are having problems, firstly ensure you are following the steps below exactly. Architecture Overview [UPDATE 11/09/2010] a new, corrected version of the diagram. Wrap Up. Maintain profile synchronization (SharePoint Server 2010) Published: October 11, 2012 Summary: Learn how to maintain User Profile synchronization settings in SharePoint Server 2013 after you configure User Profile synchronization.

Applies to: SharePoint Server 2013 In this article: Before you begin this operation, review the following information about prerequisites: SharePoint Server 2013 lets you handle several different user migration scenarios. The following are examples of the scenarios handled for Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS): Account name (sAMAccountName) changes in the AD DS where the user exists.

To rename users or to change user domains There are two reasons why obsolete users or groups can exist in the SharePoint Server 2013 user profile store: Obsolete users: The My Site cleanup timer job is not active. To find and remove obsolete users and groups by using Windows PowerShell Verify that you have the following memberships: securityadmin fixed server role on the SQL Server instance.