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Renamed users in AD are showing up wrong in Sharepoint - redo
I see that this question has been asked before. But I don't think it is the same conditions. We have two new users who where set up in AD incorrectly. Lets say account 001 was named for John Smith and account 002 was named for Mike Jones. The mistake was caught by our AD people, and they corrected it by naming 001 for Mike Jones and 002 for John Smith. However, they still appeared wrong in SharePoint.
I went to the SSP, deleted the profiles of both users, then did a full import. When it was done, the profiles showed correctly in the SSP. I went back to the web application to add them in, and they still came up wrong.
Now the really strange part. This web app is made up of dozens of site collections. I look up their names in one, they are wrong. I look up their names in another, they are right.
What gives?
I went to the SSP, deleted the profiles of both users, then did a full import. When it was done, the profiles showed correctly in the SSP. I went back to the web application to add them in, and they still came up wrong.
Now the really strange part. This web app is made up of dozens of site collections. I look up their names in one, they are wrong. I look up their names in another, they are right.
What gives?
Go to your people settings, select the user and delete him from the site collection. (it's an option on top of the username) once you go to the user's detail (not the userprofile page).
Then re-add him to the site collection.
Site Action > Site Settings> All People and then check of the users you want to delete, then go to Actions and click on Delete user from Site Collection
Then re-add him to the site collection.
Site Action > Site Settings> All People and then check of the users you want to delete, then go to Actions and click on Delete user from Site Collection
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Yes, the users have logged in since the sync. Still shows up wrong for them.
Created a new site collection and added both users in with their names showing correctly.
Deleting the users from All People, then adding them back in, did not solve the problem on the site collections that where showing the users incorrectly.
So when you add a user, and click the Check Names icon, where is SharePoint pulling the information? From the SSP, or directly from the AD? If directly from a AD, I might want to look to see if all of our 7 domain controllers have the correct info for these two users. But it would seem strange that one site collection would go to controller A, while another would go to controller B. Anyone want to shed some light on the process?
Created a new site collection and added both users in with their names showing correctly.
Deleting the users from All People, then adding them back in, did not solve the problem on the site collections that where showing the users incorrectly.
So when you add a user, and click the Check Names icon, where is SharePoint pulling the information? From the SSP, or directly from the AD? If directly from a AD, I might want to look to see if all of our 7 domain controllers have the correct info for these two users. But it would seem strange that one site collection would go to controller A, while another would go to controller B. Anyone want to shed some light on the process?
Dong, are you sure you selected the button : Delete from Site Collection? It needs to be that specific button, removing them from a group will not solve your problem.
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Sorry, also add in -web "http://____" to the command to specify the site
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Yes, I am deleting them from the site collections.
Something else. After deleting the users, I added them to one of the site collections that was having the problem. In the Add Users page, I added their accounts and did the Check Names. Oddly, both of them came up with the name of the first user, John Smith. I accepted that to add them in to a group. And on the group members page, the Name column shows John Smith, John Smith. But, if you hover over the names, the info box pops up and shows their correct information. Crazy.
I'm not familiar with PowerShell, so I'm not ready to try that. Anyone have a like STSADM command to accomplish the same thing?
Something else. After deleting the users, I added them to one of the site collections that was having the problem. In the Add Users page, I added their accounts and did the Check Names. Oddly, both of them came up with the name of the first user, John Smith. I accepted that to add them in to a group. And on the group members page, the Name column shows John Smith, John Smith. But, if you hover over the names, the info box pops up and shows their correct information. Crazy.
I'm not familiar with PowerShell, so I'm not ready to try that. Anyone have a like STSADM command to accomplish the same thing?
You need to get familiar, STSADM is going away. :)
Just bring up the SharePoint Mangement Console on the web server, and type the command. It's really easy.
Just bring up the SharePoint Mangement Console on the web server, and type the command. It's really easy.
dong, try Achilles powershell command. Just open the powershell window in your start folder under SharePoint 2010 and run his command. You will need to learn powershell eventually and this small change might be a good opportunity to start with it :)
Tss, 1 min quicker Achilles, I'm getting slow :)
lol
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Sorry, this is MOSS 2007. Does the PowerShell command apply?
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One more bit of strangeness. If I enter the user IDs in the Add User page, then click Check User, they come up wrong. If I find the user using the Browse tool, searching on their last name, then come up right. From there, I added them to All People. They showed up correctly. I though I had this licked. I deleted the users, then attempted to add them back in using the previously failed Check User method. Failed again.
Also, I checked each and every DC in our network. Both users come up correctly on all. So where is SharePoint pulling this wrong data? Correct in the Browse, correct in the AD, correct in the SSP, incorrect when you try to add them in with Check User.
Also, I checked each and every DC in our network. Both users come up correctly on all. So where is SharePoint pulling this wrong data? Correct in the Browse, correct in the AD, correct in the SSP, incorrect when you try to add them in with Check User.
update please
Have you tried adding them to a completely new SIte Collection, one that they have never had access to ? If not, do so, and see if they properly display there.