MarC on May 17th, 2010

This is a post without a solution (yet). I’m always having some kind of trouble with installing this SharePoint 2007 service.
I use these settings:
 
The description with this service states that: To use the Directory Management Service you need to provide the SharePoint Central Administration application pool account with write access to the container you specify [...]

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MarC on February 3rd, 2010

When I was looking on the internet for some info about User Profile import in SharePoint 2007 I found the blogpost of Duarte Nobrega about LDAP User Filters. Some examples of the filters are:
Default user filter:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))
Exclude accounts with no email address:
(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User)(!(userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))(mail=*))
Exclude disabled accounts:
(&(objectCategory=person)(objectClass=user)(!userAccountControl:1.2.840.113556.1.4.803:=2))
Read more at the source.

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In a series of posts I shall update you about my experiences with building a Windows 2008 Server with RMS and SharePoint 2007.
I try to install everything on one server. Windows 2008 AD DS is already installed.
When installing RMS on an AD DS server the AD RMS service account, which normally has to be a [...]

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admin on February 16th, 2009

For many people working in the business for a long time, like me, it is well known that Pre windows 2000 accounts can not exceed 20 characters. I just thought lets blog about this one time because at the past two customers I installed MOSS farms with I asked the system admins to make to [...]

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MarC on January 27th, 2009

In this post I told about a problem I had at a customer SharePoint farm with creating MySites. Well, the problem is solved now.
Some profile properties were “required”. In the past these fields were filled automatically from the AD but some of those AD fields did no longer have content. These fields are “optional” now [...]

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