Today, I was playing with MIM and User profile Service in SharePoint Server 2016, and I deleted the management Agent (ADMA, SPMA), uninstalled the MIM Server and SharePoint Connector as well.
After re-installing the MIM Server and SharePoint Connector, when I tried to re-configure the Microsoft Identity Manager(MIM) for User Profile Service in SharePoint server 2016. I ended up with the following:
The property ‘name’ cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists and can be set.
At F:\temp\mim\SyncFiles\SharePointSync.psm1:120 char:5
- $domainPartition.Node.name = $DefaultNamingContext.distinguishedName.ToStrin + CategoryInfo: InvalidOperation: (: )[],
- RuntimeException FullyQualifiedErrorId: PropertyNotFound
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Similar error appears for ‘dn’, ‘name’, ‘guid’, ‘inclusion’, ‘exclusion’ properties a couple of times.
I tried different things but could not find a clue. Finally Trevor helped to fix the issue.
Reason
When you run PowerShell script to install the configuration files during the configuration, it updates the MA-ADMA.xml, MA-SPMA.xml and MV.xml with the values that you provide during the installation script i.e. DN, OU etc.
If you are trying to re use the these XML files(MA-ADMA.xml, MA-SPMA.xml, MV.xml), then it will throw the error as mentioned above, since these fields are already updated in the files.
Fix
Now, you have two options to fix the issue
- Download the fresh files from the GitHub site and use them for the installation. It is the best practice because you will get the latest updates, if any.
- You can restore it from the backup, if you see the location of sync files folder. You will see the MS-ADMA.xml.bak. Rename it and use it.
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