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User Profiles Synchronization - SharePoint 2010

Scenario

Synchronize User Profiles with Active Directory for a new SharePoint 2010 installation or for existing SharePoint 2010 installation.

Solution

1. Go to Central Administration -> Manage Service Applications -> User Profile Service Application settings. Select Configure Synchronization Connections:

2. Click Create New Connection button:

 3. In the Type dropdown select Active Directory. Specify service account that has access to Active Directory and click Populate Containers to select objects that you want to import from specified Active Directory:

4. When the new connection is created go to Edit Connection Filters action screen:

 5. In our case we want to synchronize only active user accounts. So we add Exclusion Filter for Users as Attribute = userAccountControl, Operator = Bit on equal, Filter = 2. Which is exactly the the same as LDAP query (!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))
Then click Add:


6. When the Exclusion Filter appears click OK to save settings:

7. Start Profile Synchronization:


8. Wait till it's done and then look at the imported profiles to check:



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Comments

  1. AnonymousJanuary 29, 2011 at 10:20 PM

    This looks to me like a simple copy - paste from a Microsoft document. As a suggestion, much better if you have treated the User Profile Sync installation process, which is indeed a challenge. You provide this info with the assumption that you already have the UPS already running.

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  2. WillWJanuary 29, 2011 at 11:19 PM

    Dear gmbx25,
    First, just for your information, this is not a "copy - paste from a Microsoft document", but an illustrated process of how to synchronize user profiles that I have done myself. So as a suggestion, next time when you state something, please be sure that you have done your research properly and if not sure ask the owner of the blog why he/she posts something.
    Thanks for the feedback anyway.

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  3. AsifApril 11, 2012 at 7:35 AM

    Great Post, Thank you!!

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  4. WillWApril 12, 2012 at 9:27 PM

    Thanks Asif!

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