BDC The name ‘Domain\User Name‘ could not be resolved via Active Directory

Issue

When you work with SharePoint 2010 and BDC Service application when you try to create an External Content Type, you might come across this error. This is because the person who had created the Content type is not present in the Active Directory. He/she may have left your organization.

Resolution

1) Browse to Central Administration

2) Choose the BDC Service application. Make sure that this person is not listed as the administrator on the service application

3) Inside the BDC service application, select Set Metadata Store Permissions

4) The user listed in the error will be listed here.

5) Select the user and remove him/her.

6) Make sure that you select the checkbox that says - 

Propagate permissions to all BDC Models, External Systems and External Content Types in the BDC Metadata Store. Doing so will overwrite existing permissions.

7) Click OK

Implementing Managed Metadata in a Sharepoint List

This is a continuation from Creating Managed Metadata Group, Term Set and Terms. In this post I will be using the Term Set created in the previous post in a Sharepoint List.

1) To begin with, I am creating a new Sharepoint list. (MMD Sample List) 

2) The next step would be to create a new column. Browse to List Settings-> Create column

3) I am giving the Column Name as MMD Column and the type of the column as Managed Metadata.

4) In the Term Set Settings, select numbers (Term Set) from the MMDGroup1 (Group) by clicking on ManagedMetadata-F (Managed Metadata Service Application).

5) Click OK. Now browse to the list and create a new item

6) Enter the details. You would see that you are given suggestions for the MMD Column.

7) Alternatively, try clicking on the tag symbol for that column.

Creating Managed Metadata Group, Term Set and Terms

To implement Managed Metadata, I will post two entries.The first one would be :

1) Creating Managed Metadata Group, Term Set and Terms

2) Implementing Managed Metadata in a Sharepoint List

In this post I would be creating Managed Metadata Group, Term Set and Terms.I am trying out this activity at a site collection and not from Central Administration.

1) Go to the site collection Site settings page. Browse to Term Storage Manager page by clicking on Term Store Management.

2) Here you see that the Managed Metadata Service Application (ManagedMetadata-F) is already available. (I created this in a different post).

3) Create a new group under the Managed Metadata Service application by doing a right click ->New Group.   

    

4) I am naming it as MMDGroup1. I can create permissions for users for managing this group.

5) Under this I would be creating a New Term Set and call it as numbers.

6) Below the Term Sets, I would be creating Terms.

7) In this case it would be the numbers one, two, three, four, and five.

8) Now we have created a New Group, Term Set and Terms. Click Save. Next step would be using this in a SharepointList.