Hi,
This may sound like a common problem but i can't seem to find a solution.
I recently installed a SharePoint 2010 farm. The farm is currently SP1, Aug12 CU.
I created the user profile service application without any problems and created a connection, sync worked...everything was fine. Few days after, i noticed the connection disappeared! I tried recreating it but i got the above error. Tried deleting the SA and recreating it but still the same.
I checked everything:
- FIM services are started
- User profile services (both) are started
- It is not an AD connection timeout (error comes up in a second and containers populate just fine)
- All permissions were given correctly (keep in mind this has worked before)
- Tried updating to the Aug12 CU
Then i remembered i installed the farm with the sql servers mapped with FQDN instead of NETBIOS or Alias.
That led me to try to enable netbios on the SA via PowerShell but to no avail.
So basically my question is...is there anything i can do or is re installing the farm the only solution?