Friday, January 8, 2010

A bug in SharePoint User Profiles and Search

The users complain that the persons left our company are still searchable in SharePoint. I configured Source as Custom source in Configure Profile Import in User Profile and Properties. In this custom source, I configured it not load Disabled account from AD. Here is the link to another post about this: http://davidnotions.blogspot.com/2009/06/using-user-filter-to-limit-user-profile.html.

So I did a full import and View user profiles and see there’re lots of profiles (they are disabled accounts) in View Profiles Missing from Import. As per Microsoft (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointserver/ha011604221033.aspx ), it seems these accounts should be removed after three-times full import. Unfortunately I did three-times full import and they were not removed. I have to say this is a bug.

So I have one more administration job: monitor Profiles Missing from Import and manually delete profiles in this list.