Central Administration prompts for password

Before you start digging for complex reasons try this one: Add the Central Administration site to the Local Intranet Sites on the Application Server, this should solves the problem in most of the cases.

How to add a field to the User Profile / Active Directory synchronization

In the AD I Have this:

But when I look in the User Profile the field “Company” Is missing. To see if the field is even synced let’s look at the User Profile service:

• Connect to the Central Administration
• Go to Application Management – Service Applications – Manage service applications
• Click on the  User Profile Service Application

• Click on “Manage User Profiles”

• Search for a User and look if you can find the field Company

In My case the field “Company” is missing. So let’s add this field

• Go back to the manage Profile Service Screen and click on Manage User Properties

• Click “New Property” and fill out the following Form:

Basically that’s it. If you want to see the changes in the User Profiles you need to Start Synchronization. Go back to the Manage Profile Service Screen and click on “Start Profile Synchronization”

Run a Full Synchronization and wait until it finished. Be aware that a full sync is time and compute intensive.

Now your field should show up in the SharePoint User Profile