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Import MyLinks into SharePoint User Profiles

I created this following script to import “My Links” items into the SharePoint User Profile. This might be useful for a various reason including extracting existing links from another User Profile database (see SQL query below). The script uses a CSV file containing three columns – username, title and URL e.g. DOMAIN\User1,Google, https://www.google.com DOMAIN\User1,Intranet, https://intranet DOMAIN\User2, Team, https://intranet/teamsite If you need to extract data from … Continue reading Import MyLinks into SharePoint User Profiles

SteveNovember 15, 2016November 15, 2016Leave a comment
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Get SharePoint User Profile Properties via SQL script

Have you ever had one of those moments where the User Profile Sync is set to import a property from AD and you desperately need to get the old values back but don’t want to restore the entire User Profile Service? This SQL script can be used to extract the properties from a restored copy of the User Profile DB without needing to attach it to … Continue reading Get SharePoint User Profile Properties via SQL script

SteveJanuary 14, 2016January 14, 2016Leave a comment
SharePoint, Uncategorized

SharePoint MySite Person.aspx timeout

Here is an interesting issue I had during a SharePoint 2010 to 2013 migration. In the scenario, we created a new SharePoint Intranet and used DocAve to migrate content and used an Content DB migration for MySites content and the User Profile Service. Everything seemed to migrate successfully, but when users tried to access MySites the person.aspx page would fail to load and a correlation … Continue reading SharePoint MySite Person.aspx timeout

SteveDecember 8, 2015December 8, 2015Leave a comment
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