Mapping custom Active Directory fields to SharePoint

Many at times, I have been asked about mapping custom properties from Active Directory to SharePoint User Profile. I decided to answer them via this post.

Mapping fields from Active directory to SharePoint is very simple and straight forward. We will see a step by step demonstration now.

Go to your User Profile Properties, click on Manage Properties and Add Property

Enter the Name, Display Name, Type and Length of the field you are trying to map across to SharePoint (These attributes are for the SharePoint front). After entering these fields, as you scroll down the page, you will see the section “Add New Mapping”

Select the source of your AD Import from the dropdown, if you have just one AD Import profile, you will see that selected by default. 

In the Attribute text field, enter the property name which is at the Active Directory side. Then click on Add. You will see the attribute is added in the Property Mapping for Synchronization section.

That’s it. You are done. 

Click on OK and run a full synchronization. 

You will see your property being pulled from AD to SharePoint.

Importing Active Directory profiles to SharePoint 2013

This post describes one way communication of Active Directory users to be brought into SharePoint 2013 environment.
We need an account set up for the AD profile synchronization. Let’s call it “SharePointADSync“, we need to configure a couple of things on this account in AD:

Add “Replicate Directory Changes” permission

• On the domain controller, click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Active Directory Users and Computers.
• In Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click the domain, and then click Delegate Control.
• On the first page of the Delegation of Control Wizard, click Next.
• In the Users or Groups page, click Add.
• Type the name of the synchronization account, and then click OK.
• Click Next.
• In the Tasks to Delegate page, select Create a custom task to delegate, and then click Next.
• On the Active Directory Object Type page, select This folder, existing objects in this folder, and creation of new objects in this folder, and then click Next.
• On the Permissions page, in the Permissions box, select Replicate Directory Changes, and then click Next.
• Click Finish

Follow these steps now to import AD profiles to SharePoint.

Go to Central Admin. Click Manage Service applications under Application Management.

From the list of services, click on the User Profile Service Application

Under Synchronization, click Configure Synchronization Settings

Select the “Use SharePoint Active Directory Import” radio button under Synchronization Options. Click OK to save settings. You will then be redirected to the User Profile page.

Under Synchronization, click Configure Synchronization Connections and create a new connection.

Fill in appropriate values and click Populate Containers. Once the containers are populated, check the ones you would like to import to SharePoint and save the connection. In the Account name, enter the SharePointADSync account details that we have created for this purpose. 

No you can go ahead and do a full import, which will import the selected profiles to your SharePoint.