SharePoint 2013 User Profile Service - AD Import

Question

Hello,

We recently migrated SharePoint 2013 farm to Azure. We decided to use the AD Import for User profile service. We have some custom properties used for our MySites to display templates based on the organization the employee works for.

I would like to know if I run a full sync, what are the ramifications? Will all the MySites go back to using the default templates?

Thanks in advance.

Thanks,

Rajashree

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Rajashree Baradur

Answer 1

Full Sync does just that - syncs all properties with Active Directory to the UPA. The UPA isn't directly involved in MySites (MySites just displays the values from the UPA).

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Trevor Seward

        

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Answer 2

Hi Rajashree,

My site won’t go back to using the default templates.

Profile Synchronization in SharePoint Server 2013 is to synchronize user and group profile information that is stored in the SharePoint Server 2013 profile store with profile information that is stored in directory services and business systems across the enterprise.

How to sync on-premise AD with Azure for your reference:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/canitpro/archive/2014/05/14/step-by-step-syncing-on-premise-ad-with-azure-active-directory.aspx

http://www.lumagate.com/news/the-future-of-sync-from-your-on-premise-to-azure-ad

Thanks,

Dean Wang

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