Configure User Profile Service Application

Question

User Profile Service Application is a shared Application of SharePoint 2010 used to manage user's profiles of organization, synchronizing profiles with active directory and creating My Sites for users.

1)  Open SharePoint 2010 Central Administration

2)  On Quick Launch, Click on Application Management and then click "Manage Service Applications" Under Service Applications Section.
3)  On Manage Service Application Page click on "New" and select User Profile Service Application.

4)  On Create New User Profile Service Application window type

   a)  Name : User Profile Service Application1

   b)  Application Pool Name : UserProfileServicePool

   c)  Configurable : POINT\Sharepoint_Farm User

After typing these values click on "Create" Button at down.

Service Application will create. After Creating Service Application, we will start necessary services for service application

 

5)  On Quick Launch menu of central Administration site click on "System Settings" then click on "Manage Services on Server" Under servers Section.

 

6)  On Services on Server window find out

   a)  User Profile Service and click on start.

   b)  User Profile Synchronization Services and click start.

7)  To see timer job, on Quick Launch of central Administration site , click on Monitoring and then click on check job status under timer jobs section.

Under Running Jobs We Must have "ProfileSynchronizationSetupJob"

 

8)  Ensure that both the services have started.

   a)  User Profile Service.

   b)  User Profile Synchronization Services.

On Quick Launch menu of central Administration click on "System Settings" then "Manage Services on Server" Under servers Section and check it.

 

9)  Also ensure that Forefront Identity Manager Service and Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service Has started.

 

10)  Restart IIS Server.

   a)  Go to start, right click on command prompt, then click run as administrator.

   b)  Type IISRESET

 Go to Administrative Tools then click on Services and check it.

11)   Now open our service application

On Quick Launch of central Administration site, click Application Management then "Manage Service Applications", then "User Profile Service Application1" Link. We will have following page, where we can manage user profiles, synchronization with Active Directory, setup My Sites etc.

 

Creating connection with Active Directory

1)  On Quick Launch of central Administration Site, click Application Management then "Manage Service Applications", then "User Profile Service Application1" Link.
2)  On Synchronization Connections page click on "Create New Connection"
3)  On add new synchronization connection page use following values.
   a)  Connection Name: POINT Active Directory Users.
   b)  Type : Active directory
   c)  Forest Name : POINT.COM
   d)  Account Name : POINT\SharePoint_Farm

4)  On Quick Launch of central Administration, click Application Management then "Manage Service Applications", then "User Profile Service Application1" Link.
And click on "Start Profile Synchronization". Synchronization Process will start; look at right side on page we have status "Synchronizing"
It will take 10 to 15 to finish this process. Press F5 until Synchronization status is Idle. 


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