User Profile Service Application - Synchroniaztion Connections Disappear

I came up against a strange scenario where a  created profile connection disappeared from the page as shown below.

I found that this was due to ‘Forefront Identity Manager Service’ had not automatically restarted upon reboot of the server.Open services.msc snap in locate the ‘Forefront Identity Manager Service’ service and start the service.

Simply refreshing the Synchronization Connections page made the connection reappear.