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

AndrewWoody — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:28:35 -0000

Steve, I agree that the 'Off-Line' database option is one of the worst thought out/UI bits of SharePoint. My recommendation has always been to just set the maximum number of site collections to 1 when you want to stop new ones being added.

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

samcvnath — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:54:09 -0000

Can you let me know if it is possible to populate a sharePoint list using this webservice. the requirement is that user’s profile info to be fetched for member directory in different community portals within our organization. need to display this for each portal with search/taggging feature activated.

the User information list, where i create a custom view allows me to display selected replicable information from profile properties but not able to filter or search using custom query strings passed as this webpart on the page does not allow conections. this also does not allow all visitors to see the member list as only the added members to that group can view it.

awaiting your response eagerly,

Swami

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

Steve Wigren — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:19:41 -0000

If you take a content database offline it also will not sync with the SSP profiles. You'll see this message for each off-line database in the SharePoint logs if you run stsadm -o sync:

Aborting sweepsynch for guid instance .... due to null or non-online content database

We had made the content db's offline so that no more site collections could be created in them, but it looks like you can't do that if you want user info to be updated.

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

PlateSpinner — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:49:25 -0000

For what it's worth, it appears that the "stsadm -o sync" command will just force the "Quick Profile Synchronization" job. The regular "Profile Synchronization" job will just wait for the next time on the schedule.

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

Adil Baig — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:56:51 -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!!

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

Neil Hodgkinson — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:01:05 -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.

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

AndrewWoody — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:48:56 -0000

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

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

Lars Bo — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:45:33 -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).

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

Billoo — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:15:17 -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 :)

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

Anthony Sheldrake — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:48:27 -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.

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

bekz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 09:41:59 -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

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

nuts — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:51:44 -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.

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

anonymous — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:37:56 -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.

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

Andrew Woodward — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 03:57:04 -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.

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

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:19:30 -0000

Great Post!

The problem I am having is that the information in active directory is not current and when an user changes his/her information under my site settings like telpehoneNumber the information is been updated in active directory. We got configure the Profile Import to run x time on the morning but the information is not been updated. Should I need to run the stsadm synch tool?

Once again thanks for this great post.

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

Anon Friend — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:03:59 -0000

I have the same problem as described above, however the domain name remained the same (we use a combination of letters and numbers) only the email address has been changed. The user information list shows the new email address, but the SIP address has not updated. When we add the user to a new site they weren't a member of, the correct, new information is shown, it only seems to be sites they were already a member of. We've tried removing them from th esite and adding them back in, but that doesn't work.... Does the above command still apply? How would we use it?

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

Andrew Woodward — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:16:00 -0000

You need to use the command

stsadm -o migrateuser

-oldlogin [domain\name]

-newlogin [domain\name]

[-ignoresidhistory]

See technet article for more info.

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

Anonymous — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:07:00 -0000

Hi Andrew. Firstly I'd like to thank you, great Post.

We are having a situation where a user got married (Changed surname) so account changed

from "domain\oldlastnameA"

to "domain\newlastnameA"

This user now logs on succesfully but the prefered name in the User Information List is still "lastname, oldlastname". Why has the prefered name not been updated? Is there a bug or something I can check?

Thanks again

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

Andrew Woodward — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:45:00 -0000

There is no way that I have found to update the Active status of the user without 'making them active' or as you say using an unsupported database update.

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

Anonymous — Sun, 04 May 2008 17:40:00 -0000

So it seems that in situations where users are only Readers at the root site but have Contributor or greater access further down, they will never be considered active at the root. Their UserInfo can end up being different there than in their active sites where the Profile sync updates it regularly. Is there a way to flag a user as active without raising their permissions or resorting to database manipulation?