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Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Shola Salako — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:45:20 -0000

Great research, Kristof! You saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Kaushar — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:58:43 -0000

Great Post. :)

thnx a lot... it worked for me too... after a little troube in database connection.

Is it possible to push data back to external list or SQL ?

Kaushar Ali

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Service Application Publishing and Consuming Farms

Sam Tocco — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:23:37 -0000

Excellent article but I am pulling my hair out on an issue. I have followed everything in this article and checked the settings twice. I can crawl sites in both farms with no issues. On the publishing farm I get search results. On the consuming farm I cannot get any search results.

The only error I see is in the logs for the web server in the consuming farm as follows:

Error while fetching query suggestion results. Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Query.SearchApplicationIsExtendedConnectorException: Extended Connector Search Service Application cannot process queries. ---> System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplicationFault]: The creator of this fault did not specify a Reason. (Fault Detail is equal to Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.SearchServiceApplicationFault). Any ideas are greatly appreciated?

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

WilyGuy — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:43:16 -0000

The "Return items identified by this profile property" is blank? I have tried different kinds of User Properties to see if I can match it.

If I create a filter in the ECT, I can see that in the 1:many, but still no profile property.

Help?

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Nick Larter — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:40:05 -0000

Excellent post Kristof. I would've been chasing my tail for days trying to work this one out. Thanks for contributing to the community.

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Nick Larter — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 08:39:15 -0000

Works like a charm!

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Ahmed Adly — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:34:39 -0000

that's great and clear, Thx Alot
Ahmed

Re: Trials and Tribulations of the SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Service Application

Daniel Westerdale — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:15:58 -0000

I have just started to access the farm I am on. Anyway, I do get the error: " You do not have permissions to have lists and pages within My Site" , but nly when I click on the content tab on my sites. I don't yet have permissions to check the AAM so I cannot verify if the fix you describe will work. Any thoughts

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Service Application Publishing and Consuming Farms

rvallecillo — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:53:48 -0000

Had the issue described in the Update, and reprovisioning the service applications fix the error.

Re: The search request is unable to connect to the search service

Krishnachaitu86 — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 03:26:39 -0000

When i am trying to searcg for a document on share point serverv i am getting an error message as " The search request was unable to connect to the
Search Service" Can some one pls help me how to resolve it...
Thanks in advance
Chaitanya

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Tomas Paulas — Fri, 13 May 2011 08:45:27 -0000

Karl, I had the same problem and reason was that I did not do sync with AD at all. According to my findings you have to have both AD and BCD sync, because UserName is populated from AD profile sync. That means use have a match of sync properties, but there is no username on sharepoint site.

Tomas

Re: Cannot sign in because your computer clock is not set correctly or your account is invalid. (Error code: 0-1-492)

DoctorJekyl — Tue, 10 May 2011 15:37:41 -0000

well, that is tough luck:))

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Karlheinz Schlaender — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:33:35 -0000

Hi
thanks for this great post. I have followed it and checked everything twice but am still receiving that "no such user type "user" exception.... are there any other settings that I could have done wrong?
Thanks,
Best,

KH

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Sruchandani — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:51:58 -0000

Thanks for this really helpful post. However, if you have several thousand user profiles, how do you go about setting values for the property that the AD and BCS connections are joined on? For ex., in this case, Alternate Customer ID.

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Willem Oosterhof — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 03:39:35 -0000

A new update with more language files for the localised searches is available:
http://www.microsoft.com/downl...

I've run into similar problems... Changing the query language of the People Search Results webpart to a language that is a lot different to ours (Greek vs Dutch) has improved our search results. This work-around does mean you don't use nicknames...

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Aleem — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 07:22:30 -0000

Awesome!!!
Thanks mate.

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

JFK — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 06:12:25 -0000

have you fixed your error?

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Eric — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 11:17:05 -0000

This is a great post! Very detailed and articulate. Thank you Kristof!

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Joe — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:17:01 -0000

Awesome Post!

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Phonetic and Nickname Search

Maximilian Melcher — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:45:06 -0000

Hey man,

you saved us a lot of work!
Thanks for sharing!

Cheers
Max

Re: Trials and Tribulations of the SharePoint Server 2010 User Profile Service Application

Elway9798 — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:14:51 -0000

You are awesome...saved my butt!

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Enterprise Service Application Publishing and Consuming Farms

Neil_malik — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:25:31 -0000

How do you access the user profile service from the receiving farm? I'm unable to instantiate people search from the receiving farm.

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

222gap — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:53:21 -0000

Hello,

This was a great post. I have tried to implement it. However, whenever I run the Profile Synchronization, it fails on the Full Import Stage for the BDC. The error displayed on the MIISClient for this stage is Discovery Errors: CN= SPS-Dummy, missing-anchor_component. I've been fighting this for the last 2 days. Did you encounter this issue?

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Guest — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 08:14:41 -0000

Thanks so much for the post. I am following your post to supplement the user profiles with external content types.I have been able to create the External content type and external list. my questions is when you created CustomCustomerID property in user profile service application, what was the mapping in it? I will appreciate your feedback. Thanks.

Re: SharePoint Server 2010 Supplementing User Profile Imports Using BCS

Patrick Imboden — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 07:01:48 -0000

Man you're great.
Very instructive post!