User Profile Properties do not synchronize

I’ve come across this issue a while ago, but after seeing this issue surfacing several times, I’ve decided to blog about it :-)

This problem might appear very deceiving almost like some user profiles are being ignored while other profiles are getting their properties updated just fine.

The problem is fundamentally within the way SharePoint is handling profiles updates :-)

SP finds a profile based on profile’s account name and matches it to AD account, but synchronizes properties by matching profile’s SID to the AD SID. Which means that if the profile had been recreated or corrupted this is not going to synchronize because this profile when it comes to AD does not exist anymore. SharePoint will first try to see if the profile exists based on the account name, and surely enough it will find it, this is why it will not recreate it, but it will not update any properties since SIDs will not be the same.

Delete this profile in SharePoint and do the import.

And refer to the following Thing that should or should not be done to SharePoint admin account

Preview or play Video files in library

There are many ways of displaying video in a sharepoint site, my personal favorite is by Manoj Iyer from http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/05/play-video-into-sharepoint-page.html blog.  But I often heard that the requirement is to have a video player almost imbedded into a video library.  Something that would allow to pick a video file without leaving the list of files and start playing it. something similar to the following picture.

 

Well, it's very easy to create with Sharepoint designer

Let's start:

1. Create a Web part page, I’ve chosen the one with left column and body and named it Preview.aspx.

2. Open this page in the edit mode and insert Content Editor Web Part. Once you inserted the Content editor Web Part and pasted the code from http://www.sharepointkings.com/2008/05/play-video-into-sharepoint-page.html blog... I modified this code, but this modification does not change any functionality only height and width of the viewer, here it goes:

<div id="Player"> </div>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getParameter(szName)
{
// Get value out of supplied parameter
var szUrl = window.location.search;
szUrl = szUrl.toLowerCase();
szName = szName.toLowerCase();
var szValue = "";
var nBegin = szUrl.indexOf(szName);
if (nBegin != -1)
{
szValue = szUrl.substring(nBegin + (szName.length + 1));
}
var nEnd = szValue.indexOf("&");
if (szValue != "" && nEnd != -1)
{
szValue = szValue.substring(0, nEnd);
}
return szValue;
}

function wmpCreate(url) {
var str = "";
var agt = navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase();
var is_ie = (agt.indexOf("msie") != -1);
if (is_ie) {
// create the WMP for IE
str = '<object id="contentPlayer" classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6" width="400" height="400">';
} else {
// create it for FF.
str = '<object id="contentPlayer" type="application/x-ms-wmp" data="'+url+'" width="400" height="400">';
}
str += '<param name="url" value=""/>';
str += '<param name="uiMode" value="full">';
str += '<param name="autoStart" value="-1" />';
str += '<param name="stretchToFit" value="-1" />';
str += '<param name="windowlessVideo" value="0" />';
str += '<param name="enabled" value="-1" />';
str += '<param name="enableContextMenu" value="-1" />';
str += '<param name="fullScreen" value="0" />';
str += '</object>';
return str;
}
function videoCreate() {
document.getElementById('Player').innerHTML = wmpCreate();
var wmp = document.getElementById('contentPlayer');
wmp.URL = getParameter("url");
wmp.controls.play();
}
_spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("videoCreate");
</script>

3. Open this page in SharePoint Designer.

This is where the fun part begins.

4. Into the left column insert DataView Web Part with the “media” library as the source.

5. Select all columns that you want to have displayed from the "media" library.

6. Insert a column at the end of the table and create a hyperlink there. Name of the hyperlink that I've chosen is "Preview"

 

In the address field paste the following string.

javascript: {ddwrt:GenFireServerEvent(concat('__redirect={Preview.aspx?url=http://srv1/media/media/',@FileLeafRef,'}'))}

Let's see what it does:

This script is redirecting to this same page Preview.aspx, but adds a parameter called url with the url reference to the media file, so replace "http://srv1/media/media/" with the url to YOUR media library. @FileLeafRef will simply imbed actual file name at the end.

As soon this redirection happens the content editor web part with the player will take the url to this file and start playing it.

Now every time you click the preview link next to the file name, the player will start playing this video.

Enjoy