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Update the Agent Configuration Parameters for your Agent for SharePoint

The following tasks require updating the Agent Configuration parameters for your SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint:

• Adding, changing or removing properties from a user profile.
• Importing user profiles.

To update the Agent Configuration parameters for your Agent for SharePoint

1. Open one of the following:
   • (r6.x SP6) Policy Server User Interface
   • (r12.0 SP2) Administrative UI
2. Open the Agent configuration object associated with your SiteMinder Agent for SharePoint.
3. Verify that the value of your Universal ID user attribute from your user directory connection in the Policy Server is also set as the value for the following parameter:

   SPSortVirtualAttribute

   Specifies the name of the Virtual attribute defined in the user directory connection of the SiteMinder Policy Server. Set this attribute before importing or modifying user profiles.

   Default: UniversalID

   Example: (Active Directory) sAMAccountName

4. Verify that the username attribute setting of the following parameter also matches the value of your Universal ID user attribute:

   SPVirtualAttributeMapList

   Contains a group of virtual user attributes which are mapped to existing user attributes in the user directory connection defined in the SiteMinder Policy Server. The following attributes are available:

   • group = group_name_attribute
   • email = email_address_attribute
   • username = user_name_attribute
   • displayname = display_name_attribute

   Default: email=Email group=GroupID username=UniversalID displayname=DisplayName

5. Save any changes to your Agent Configuration object.

   The agent configuration parameters are updated.

More information:

Create Virtual Attribute Mappings to your SharePoint User Directories (r12.0 SP2)

Edit the User Attribute Mapping File to Configure Virtual Attribute Mappings to your SharePoint User Directories (r6.x SP6)

Modify a User Directory Connection for your SharePoint User Directories in the SiteMinder Policy Server (r12.0 SP2)

Modify a User Directory Connection for your SharePoint Directories in the SiteMinder Policy Server (r6.x SP6)