UPSA Creation In SharePoint 2013 Using PowerShell Method

In this blog, you will learn how to configure a User Profile Service Application in SharePoint Server 2013. The User Profile Service is a shared Service in SharePoint Server 2013 and this is responsible for SharePoint user synchronization in the various settings.

Ex - 1

When you create My site settings, we need a user profile Serivice Application to synchronize with the database to retrive the audience settings and the profile details.

Here, I will quickly explain about how to configure the user profile Application through UI method.

Goto SharePoint 2013 Central Admin-->Application Management-->Manage Service Applications-->Service Applications tab to enable the ribbon--> create a UPSA.

Here, we will see about PowerShell method and it is very simple to create for admins.

Syntax

#Creating new Application pool in IIS
$AppPool = New-SPServiceApplicationPool -Name HostedAppPool -Account (Get-SPManagedAccount "Gowtham\SPdev")

#Creating User profile Service application in new App pool.
$UPSA = New-SPProfileServiceApplication -Name UPA -PartitionMode  -ApplicationPool $AppPool

Once User Profile Service is Created ypu can Verify the UPSA fields and their types,

Syntax:
[void][reflection.assembly]::Loadwithpartialname("Microsoft.Office.Server");
$getsite=new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite("https://gowtham.sharepoint.com");
$Context = Get-SPServiceContext $getsite;
$site.Dispose();
$uuserprofilemanager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($Context);
$userProfile = $uuserprofilemanager.GetUserProfile("Gowtham\SPdev");
$userProfile.Properties | sort DisplayName | FT DisplayName,Name,@{Label="Type";Expression={$_.CoreProperty.Type}}

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