Removed AD user from Alfresco; No longer shows up when searched

[linecrest]

I am testing Alfresco Community version 4.2.0 and have it connected to Active Directory for the purposes of creating users/logging into Alfresco. As part of the testing, I recently deleted a user from an Alfresco site that I had added by searching for a last name, e.g., Smith. Alfresco returned all the Smiths in our organization, I picked the one I wanted and added him. However, after deleting him from the Alfresco site I then went to add him back to the site, but the user no longer shows up in the search even though he is still in AD. Why doesn't he show up, and is there some way to get him to show back up when searching?

I am not a sys admin/networking professional, but can provide more technical details if they are needed in order to sort out what is happening.

Thanks!

[i2aml8]

Did you delete him via the Admin console? If so, do you have a periodic sync running to AD? This would be done with something like this in your alfresco-global.properties file:

####################################
###### SYNCHRONISATION SETTINGS ####
####################################

synchronization.autoCreatePeopleOnLogin=false
#synchronization.import.group.clearAllChildren=true
# full sync or only changes?
synchronization.synchronizeChangesOnly=false

# to sync on each alfresco startup
synchronization.syncOnStartup=true
synchronization.syncWhenMissingPeopleLogIn=false

### DONT USE UNIX CRON EXPRESSION- USE QUARTZ CRON EXPRESSIONS!!!
### look here http://www.quartz-scheduler.org/docs/tutorials/crontrigger.html
### synchronisation starts every 60 minutes!
synchronization.import.cron=0 0/60 * * * ?