User Profiles and the Purple People Picker
Last Updated on Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:32 Written by Oz Warren Wednesday, 28 October 2009 09:20
I encountered a problem with picking up user profiles between a public website and an intranet that I was building for an organisation. The users were working across a forest comprising two domains and an AD user profile import was successfully dragging in the right user profiles.
The problem:
When trying to select users to add to a particular permission group, all users were appearing in the People Picker (the diagog that allows usernames to be verified or loooked up using the book icon) on the Intranet, but only one domain was appearing on the (internal editable version of the) public site.
The Solution:
The People Picker needs to be configured to access AD accounts in the forest using the ever mysterious stsadm tool. That can be accomplished with the following command:
stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv "domain:domain1.co.uk;domain:domain2.co.uk",yourdomain\your_username,your_password -url http://thesite
If you're still haviing issues, it's worth looking for articles about the Profile Syncronization timer job as well.