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Author: ASorenson8 Date: 01/03/2019
SharePoint - PowerShell Script to Remove Users from Site Collection
Site collections still have users that are either disabled or deleted from Active Directory....
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 08/22/2018
Remove-SPTrustedIdentityTokenIssuer : The trusted login provider is in use and cannot be deleted
I have a post about the Migration from Windows to ADFS which utilizes the creation of the...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 06/22/2018
Unable to start User Profile Service Application - Starting
The User Profile Synchronization service for SharePoint 2010 or 2013 can fail to start for numerous...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 05/26/2018
SAML roles and SharePoint 2016/2013 with OAuth
Roles (security groups) with SAML/ADFS will not work with OAuth without some more configuration and...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 03/02/2018
Migrate Users (Move-SPUser) when moving from Windows to SAML/FBA
When adding another authentication provider to a web application like ADFS(SAML) or FBA(LDAP),...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 02/27/2018
Deleting User Profiles Using PowerShell
There are many reasons why we would want to use a PowerShell shell script to delete user profiles....
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 02/20/2018
SharePoint 2016 MIM and SAML/FBA User Profiles
There is not much out there about MIM and SharePoint 2016 with FBA or SAML user profiles. Using...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 01/31/2018
SharePoint 2013/2016 - Migrate from Windows claims to ADFS
Many farms are moving from Windows Authentication(NTLM or Kerberos) to SAML. This migration and...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 01/17/2018
SharePoint - FBA - 8306 - The security token username and password could not be validated.
Forms based authentication(FBA) can have general bucket errors. In this blog post, I will be going...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 12/23/2017
The Pitfalls of Resetting the Config Cache
I see many SharePoint admins resetting the config cache but not knowing what it is or what it does....
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 12/20/2017
User Profile Picture Import with Active Directory Import(Dirsync)
UPDATE 8/16/17 My colleague, Josh, wrote a great post on his blog detailing the benefits and...
Author: ASorenson8 Date: 05/24/2017