I want to import the Birthday in to the Sharepoint profiles from our users. The Active Directory connection works fine. All properties will be imported well. Now I'm busy with the birthday. I use the AD files State/Province for the birthday. In the profile properties of the connection I have connected SPS-Birthday with AD field st (state / province). After a manually import the birthday set by the user is away. I think the problem is the format of the birthday. I have tried the following formats:- May 26- 26/05/2000- 26-05-2000Who can help me further on?

Hi, Actually, not all AD properties can be mapped to SharePoint user profile property and “State/Province” is one of those not going to be mapped. However, SharePoint provides a default “Birthday” user profile property in “View profile properties” of SSP “User Profile Properties” section. You can give it a try. For details, please refer to:http://blogs.msdn.com/uksharepoint/archive/2009/05/04/quicktip-ad-properties-mapped-to-sharepoint-profiles.aspx Hope it helps. Lily Wu

I'm not sure that answers the question completely. Are you implying that "only" the fields listed on the link are able to be mapped from AD? After looking at the list, those are the fields that are simply mapped to AD by default. We have mapped several extendedAttribute attributes to SP fields but the two that I still cannot get mapped are SPS-Birthday and SPS-HireDate. The text/string types seem to map very easily but the date types are impossible. Any help is appreciated.

I'm not sure that answers the question completely. Are you implying that "only" the fields listed on the link are able to be mapped from AD? After looking at the list, those are the fields that are simply mapped to AD by default. We have mapped several extendedAttribute attributes to SP fields but the two that I still cannot get mapped are SPS-Birthday and SPS-HireDate. The text/string types seem to map very easily but the date types are impossible. Any help is appreciated.

I too am having this issue with sps-birthday and sps-hiredate not mapping via the extendedAttribute. Did you ever come up with a fix\workaround?

I opened a MS ticket finally and worked with an MS Engineer in Development for several weeks to find out that there are in fact certain User Profile properties that will not map to AD attributes and import correctly. While I could not get a definitive list of them, it seems that any User Profile properties that are not string based such as Birthday and Hiredate which are complex date types are NOT mappable. My solution based on suggestion from MS was to create a seperate Timer Job to map the AD > User Profile property. I did so by creating a Timer Job to enumerate each User Profile and use the employeeID property to do an ldap query to AD to get the extensionAttribute of our Birthday and Hiredate values. I then converted them into Date objects and saved them to their respective User Profile property. The Timer Job is scheduled to run once per day based on our ETF process. Hope this helps.Allan