Question

I am trying to synchronise my user profile list with a BDC list in sharepoint 2010.

I get the following error when the BDC sync step runs.

I can’t figure out how to see what is going wrong. I’ve tried to map my field on username, but am having no luck 🙁

Log Name: Application
Source:
Date: 08/06/2011 17:00:12
Event ID: 6801
Task Category: (3)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: WIN-AIU20BM4R8U.amaze.internal
Description:
The extensible extension returned an unsupported error.
The stack trace is:

“Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoSuchObjectTypeException: No such object type “user”.
at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.TypeDescriptionCollectionImpl.get_Item(String Name)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ManagementAgent.ProfileImportExportExtension.Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.IMAExtensibleFileImport.GenerateImportFile(String fileName, String connectTo, String user, String password, ConfigParameterCollection configParameters, Boolean fFullImport, TypeDescriptionCollection types, String& customData)
Forefront Identity Manager 4.0.2450.5″
Event Xml:

6801
2
3
0x80000000000000

22728
Application
WIN-AIU20BM4R8U.amaze.internal

Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.NoSuchObjectTypeException: No such object type “user”.
at Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.Impl.TypeDescriptionCollectionImpl.get_Item(String Name)
at Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.ManagementAgent.ProfileImportExportExtension.Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.IMAExtensibleFileImport.GenerateImportFile(String fileName, String connectTo, String user, String password, ConfigParameterCollection configParameters, Boolean fFullImport, TypeDescriptionCollection types, String& customData)
Forefront Identity Manager 4.0.2450.5

Answer 1

While the errors in FIM are cryptic, this error means that the connected system schema does not have the user object type as expected. This happens because there was a change to the schema in the BDC sharepoint list in-between configuring the MA and actually running it.

To fix this, refresh the schema while configuring the MA and ensure that the connected system still has the user object type.