October 2010 « The UC Corner

Memberships in Sharepoint 2010 User Profile

You might have noticed the Memberships tab on a user’s My Site (http://mysite/_layouts/MyMemerships.aspx?accountname=domain%5Cusername), and wondered what exactly is listed there:

What you see is Distribution Lists that the user is member of. You also see Sharepoint Sites that the user is a member of (=the user is member of the “Member” group for the site. All sites on the levels below will also show if the “Member” group exists in these sites).

The “Sites” memberships depends on Search. If you cannot see any sites memberships, try running a full crawl.

The Distribution Lists memberships depends on the User Profile and User Profile Synchronization. A common issue can be that you import user profiles from a selected OU in AD as per best practise. If, however, your groups are placed in another OU at the same level or levels above, Sharepoint will not now about these membership. So, if you can’t see any Distribution Lists on the Memberships page, change the Synchronization Connection for the User Profile Service Application to include the OU where you have your groups and run an import.

You might also notice that Security Group Memberships are not shown. They are, however, displayed in the Newsfeed:

FeatureUpgrading not firing in Sharepoint 2010 Sandbox

So,

you create a sandboxed solution in in Visual Studio 2010 for Sharepoint 2010, and you use a feature receiver to handle upgrades. You add a CustomUpgradeAction to your feature.xml file to fire some code when feature is upgraded.

You forget that you cannot simply write to the event log or the Sharepoint (ULS) logs in a sandboxed solution, and add some code like this:

SPSecurity.RunWithElevatedPrivileges(delegate()

        System.Diagnostics.EventLog.WriteEntry("My Company, solution x", ex.Message);

});

in the FeatureUpgrade method to write something to the event log, maybe to check what went wrong if you have some errors in your code.

You will see that the FeatureUpgrade method is not firing when upgrading. You won’t get any errors either, and attaching to the SPUCWorkerProcess.exe for debugging won’t help either – nothing happens.

To make things work, you have to remove the statement writing to the log, this prevents the event receiver to function properly.

P.S. If you add a statement like the one above to the FeatureActivated method, you will at least get an error message so you know what’s happening.

Review of LG GD880 Mini (No chocolate)

I have written a review of LG’s GD880 Mini. This is a nice looking LG without the Chocolate name. Although it’s not as extreme as BL40, I wouldn’t say it justifies the “Mini” name. However, it’s still a very elegant phone both in looks, screen and menus. Also, it’s also a bit cumbersome and has flaws in some areas.

Read the review (in Norwegian) in VG here.

Read the full review (in Norwegian) here.

Error exporting User Profile Property (picture) to AD

I had set up a small Sharepoint 2010 farm, DB server, App server and WFE. The User Profile Service Application was running, and profile synchronization worked fine. However, I also wanted to export some properties back to AD, in this case the users Picture.

I mapped the Picture field to the AD attribute thumbnailPhoto, set the direction to export and started a Full Synchronization. (This blog post provides excellent information)

Nothing happended. (Well, the sync went just fine, but the Picture field was not populated. The problem was I couldn’t see any errors either, the export was not just happening. First I assumed this was a permissions issue, but then I should’ve seen errors in the logs, and granting permissions de luxe for the sync account didn’t help either. I opened miisclient.exe (no errors here neither), and when viewing a user profile that had set the Picture field, FIM still reported “Initial value” as empty. So I took a look in the Sync DB and viewed the “dbo.mms_metaverse”-table. Here I had a column “SPS_MV_OctetString_PictureURL”, but this was also empty for all users. Hmmm. Strange, the picture was in Sharepoint, I could see it with my own eyes, but it just wasn’t syncing.

Solution:

In the C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\Bin\miiserver.exe.config file, add the following lines:

<system.net>

</defaultProxy>

</system.net>

Then I restarted the server (the FIM services would probably have been enough), ran a full sync and the pictures was being exported. Somehow a rule on this network caused FIM not to get the changes from the User Profile Service Application (strange though, that import including custom fields and mapping worked fine). Anyways, inserting this dummy proxy made it work.

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