Title:People search relevance is not optimized when the Active Directory has errors in the manager reporting structure.
Severity: 0 - Rule Execution Failure
Category: Configuration
Explanation: Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Remedy: Specify the company leaders explicitly. Use the following PowerShell commands: $upap = Get-SPServiceApplicationProxy [appid]; Add-SPProfileLeader $upap [Domain]\[UserName]. Run 'Get-SPProfileLeader $upap' to check whether the leader
was successfully added. As a last step, run a full crawl on the content source containing the start address (URL) of the user profile application. Additional data on this rule see to the address http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=2401800.
Failing Service: UserProfileServer
There used to be a knowledge base article up - however that was removed since the hot fix it reference did not exist. Further the post here (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/66a057ce-c3bc-492b-ace8-62eb498adda9/)
on technet has an answer of "you have to pass in the UPA Proxy, not the UPA" which I dont understand.
When I run the command in the "remedy" I get the following error (btw I dont have access to the AD)
Add-SpprofileLeade : Object reference not set to an instance of an object
+ Add-SPProfileLeader <<<< $upap domain\userid
+CategoryInfo :InvalidData: (Microsoft.Offic…CmdletAddLeader:
SPCmdletAddLeader) {Add-SPProfileLeader], NullReferenceException
+FullyQaulifiedErrorId : Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfile.PowerShell.
SpCmdletAddLeader
There is another articles about post sp1 users getting it here (http://blog.thomasgehrke.com/2011/08/sharepoint-2010-errors-in-manager.html) and the technet article above. There is also the article here (http://www.harbar.net/archive/2011/07/06/329.aspx)
which didnt help.
Would appreciate any and all help - stuck on this one.