Unable to start UPS due to Event 6398 on SP2013

This happened on a fresh install of SharePoint 2013 on a Win 2012 server, without any CU’s applied. When I started the User Profile Service Application it hung and just when into “Stopped” mode. Checked the Event Viewer and found this error, Event 6398: “The Execute method of job definition Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.LMTRepopulationJob (ID 84821b32-cf9f-45ff-801b-bb25b69faa6f) threw an exception. More information …

New setting for AD import

Use SharePoint Active Directory Import – User Profiles Instead of using the default setting of synchronization of User Profiles, you can select the “Use SharePoint Active Directory Import” setting. Which is a lighter version and which only imports information from the AD. If you had a connection before, it is lost when you click on …

User profile synchronization error

The crawl log in Search Administration returned the following error: sps3://xxx could not be crawled What you must do is to set permissions to the search account that you use for crawling the User Profiles. Select User Profile Services (do not click the link, but highlight the application) Up in the ribbon, click a button …