The SharePoint Health Analyzer reported that “People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting”. So in order to fix this problem I wanted to execute the ‘Add-SPProfileLeader’-command on our CEO.
SharePoint, however, stated that “User ‘domain\ceo’ has a manager.”
But in order to be ‘Profile Leader’ the account must not have a manager!
PS C:\Users\sp_farm> Add-SPProfileLeader $SPSAP -Name domain\ceo
Confirm
Are you sure you want to perform this action?
Performing operation "Add-SPProfileLeader" on Target
"domain\ceo".
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):Y
Failed. User 'domain\ceo' has a manager.
I checked the AD and to my suprise the Manager-attribute was empty. No matter what I tried, I couldn’t fix this issue until I checked what’s going on in SharePoint’s database itself.
So, here is how I fixed the issue: