How to track User Profile Sync Issues in SharePoint 2013

User Profile Synchronization is a default feature that we gets with SharePoint 2013. When we need to migrate User accounts, properties to SharePoint we are using User Profile Synchronization. But due to various reasons we are failing to do so. 

To Track those issues we are getting a cool utility with SharePoint 2013.

It is miisclient located in /15/Synchronization Service/UIShell

After Open this utility we can see all synchronization attempts and the results.

It is called "Synchronization Service Manager on SERVERNAME".

There we can identify all attempts, time, status and Errors.

Here it says, "Replication Access was Denied" when trying to sync.

SharePoint 2010 User Profile Sync

                  1. We have to create user profile connection in central administration

                                             2.Populate data from AD

 3.Restart User Profile Synchronization service 

4. Edit User Property (Picture property) 

5. Map with AD property (ThumbnailPhoto)

6. Start the User Profile SYNC

7.Run the powershell command

"Update-SPProfilePhotoStore -CreateThumbnailsForImportedPhotos 1 -MySiteHostLocation http://SharePoint-T02/my"


8.Verify Images in "http://Intranet/my/User Photos/"

 

DONE :)

Now AD user images should display in Mysite of all users.

NB:- SharePoint 2010 should be updated with SP1 to get the images from to SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 User Profile Sync filtration

We can have a filtration to user profile sync in SharePoint 2010.
If we don't need to sync deactivated user accounts we can have a "Exclusion Filter".
We can use any attribute to reduce the load of sync.