title: Importing into the SPS-Birthday field in Sharepoint from Custom Field in Active Directory, why does it always store a null value?
body: <p>For reference this is the User Profile Properties section of Sharepoint where you can start an import.  Ours is configured to interface with Active Directory.  We have mapped the SPS-Birthday field to a custom field in Active Directory since Active Directory doesn't natively store birthdays.  </p>
  
  <p>Everytime we try to import a birthday from Active Directory into the SPS-Birthday field in Sharepoint it seems to get absolutely nothing.  The SPS-Birthday field remains null.  We have tried changing the format of the date in Active Directory, and we are still getting a null value.  </p>
  
  <p>We even created a new Profile Property, but gave it a string datatype, and it was able to import the data from our custom Active Directory field.  I think the issue might have something to do with the DateTime format that is expected in sharepoint for the SPS-Birthday field.</p>