User Profile Service FAQ

This article is about a few User Profile Service related questions.

1. Solution for resolving User Profile Service Struck in Starting         stage on SharePoint   

Ans:

2. What are the windows services required to be started to configure the user profile service application?

Ans:

        1) Forefront Identity Manager Service

2) Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service

1) Forefront Identity Manager Service: this service will be used to import users from AD to                          SharePoint.

2) Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service: Enables integration and management of                  identity information across multiple directories, systems, and platforms. If this service is                         stopped or disabled, no synchronization or password management for objects in connected data                sources will be performed.

Note 1) Above two services should not start manually

2) These services should be run on the Application server only

        3) These services are only in SharePoint 2010 and 2013

3. How many databases will be created during the configuration of the User Profile Service application?

    Ans: 3 

            1) Profile DB: This database will store user and organization profile data. 

            2) Sync DB (Synchronization Database:): This database will be used to store configuration and                 staging data to synchronize profile data from external sources such as Active Directory.  

            3) Social DB(Social Tagging Database:): This database will be used to store social tags and                         notes created by users.

4. What is Active Directory/LADP Port to create a connection between SharePoint and AD?

    Ans: Port is 389

5. What are the User Profile Synchronization types:

        1) Incremental Sync: it will import changes from the previous Full import

        2) Full Synch: it will import all user properties from Active Directory

6. What are the User Profile timer jobs:

        User Profile to SharePoint Full Synchronization 

        User Profile to SharePoint Quick (Incremental) Synchronization 

        UPS - System Job to Manage User Profile Synchronization 

        UPS - User Profile Language Synchronization Job 

        UPS -  User Profile to SharePoint Quick Synchronization

        UPS - Social Data Maintenance Job 

        UPS - Social Rating Synchronization Job 

        UPS - User Profile Change Cleanup Job 

        UPS - Activity Feed Cleanup Job 

        UPS - My Site Suggestions Email Job