User Profile Service Application Configuration In SharePoint 2013

User Profile Configuration (Step by Step Guide)

In this post we will discuss how to configure the User Profile Service application in SharePoint 2013 the same step will suite for SharePoint 2010 as well.

1.    Open the Central Admin, Go to System settings and Open “Manage Services on Server”.
2.    If User Profile Synchronization service is in Stopped mode, Try to start it.

 

If you clicked the start in User Profile Synchronization Service you will redirect to the Service Account configuration page like the below.

 

 

Now the service is in starting mode mean while you can go to Services.msc and look on the below service both will disabled mode after some time automatically it will running with the credentials which provided in central admin for configuring the user profile synchronization service.

 

 

 

Go back to the Central Admin -> System Settings -> manage services on Server and check the User Profile Synchronization service it will in started mode.

 

Open the Central Admin -> Application Management -> Manage Service Applications.

 

Check the below service applications are in Started mode. If yes click the User Profile Service Application (Else Select the User Profile Service Application and choose the Manage option in the Top ribbon).

 

Select the “Configure Synchronization Settings” like the below. Then follow the step one by one like the below.

 

Choose Use SharePoint Active Directory Import Settings.

Go to the Configure Synchronization Connections link

 

Create a New Connection like the below.

 

   

 

The account which you entered should have “Replication Directory Changes” privilege in the domain which you mentioned above. If the Account doesn’t have that privilege then we won’t sync the profiles from Active Directory to SharePoint.

Select the Populate Containers option then you will get like the below and select the Organizational Unit(OC) which need to import from AD to SharePoint. In my development I don’t have a too much objects so I selected all.

 

Then give ok. Once the Synchronization connection has been created, and then requires starting the Full Synchronization in Manage Service Application. Before that look the below one which appears in left side of Manage Service Application page.

It shows as of now only 4 profiles are available with the SharePoint.

 

For the first time Synchronization let choose Full, Else choose Incremental.

 

 

When started the Full Synchronization in let refresh your page and check how many has done to check the status of that, it will shows Synchronizing else Idle.

Once my profile synchronization status come to Idle mode all my profiles from AD will available in SharePoint. In this scenario totally 5,034 profiles are synced with the SharePoint.

 

Thanks a lot, If it helps you kindly post your comment in the below.

Shivashankaran