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Enterprise Services Farm and separate My Sites gotcha when synchronizing the picture from AD
Fri, 03/23/2012 - 21:23
Hi,
If you implement the following architecture (extracted from Technet at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc560988.aspx ) :
with the User Profile Service application hosted on a different farm than the My Sites and without using the replicator engine, you will encounter a problem with the Profile Picture synchronization if you get the picture from Active Directory.
Tags: SharePoint User Profiles + BCS + XML Serialization problems when data is not sanitized
Wed, 07/13/2011 - 12:14
Hi,
Let me tell you a (true) story that happened to me recently...I was playing around with SharePoint for one of my customers and faced a problem I never encountered before. To my surprise, I didn't find anything on the web describing that issue and of course, describing how to fix it!
The User Profile engine is certainly one of the most complex component of SharePoint. Looking at ForeFront Identity Manager can give some headaches...
Well, here is the scenario that can lead to some troubles :
- Your primary UP data connection is Active Directory