We recently did an in-place upgrade of our SharePoint servers (app and web) from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2. After the upgrade the UPS did not work and web applications failed with a message: Could not load user profile The SharePoint logs showed an issue with [...]
What this means is that we’re getting a null reference exception, when the FIM management agent/connector for SharePoint finishes up. It calls a finalize method that’s part of the web service (http://sp:27741/_vti_bin/ProfileImportExportService.asmx:FinalizeProfileImportExportProcess ) that the FIM MA for SP uses. This finalize method is checking for a running instance of [...]
We experienced an issue where the people picker showed user accounts that were removed from AD and the UPS. This cause issues with our workflows etc as users would select the incorrect user from the list. Based on our understanding the People Picker should only show users from AD and [...]
When configuring a new audience in SharePoint 2010 you can use an AD security group or distribution list to define your audience. Sometimes though the DL does not show in the list when you want to select it as source. First thing to check is that the DL\Group is selected [...]
