Microsoft KB Archive Search

Notice: This website is an unofficial Microsoft Knowledge Base (hereinafter KB) archive and is intended to provide a reliable access to deleted content from Microsoft KB. All KB articles are owned by Microsoft Corporation. Read full disclaimer for more details.

  1. Home
  2. "Ambiguous attribute flow from multi-value to single" error message on certain user profiles when you perform a full synchronization against AD DS in SharePoint Server 2010

"Ambiguous attribute flow from multi-value to single" error message on certain user profiles when you perform a full synchronization against AD DS in SharePoint Server 2010

View products that this article applies to.

Symptoms

Consider the following scenario:
  • You change the distinguished name for a user who has many direct reports in the user profile in Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010.
  • You try to perform a full synchronization against the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).  
In this scenario, the user profiles of the direct reports cannot be synchronized successfully. Additionally, you receive the following error message:

Ambiguous attribute flow from multi-value to single valued attribute.

↑ Back to the top

Resolution

To resolve this issue, apply this following hotfix package: 
2459257 Description of the SharePoint Server 2010 Cumulative Update Server Hotfix Package (MOSS server-package): December 31, 2010

↑ Back to the top

Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

↑ Back to the top

Keywords: kbsurveynew, kbqfe, kbexpertisebeginner, kb

↑ Back to the top

Article Info
Article ID : 2458470
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 6/21/2014
Exists online : False
Views : 244