People picker says: No exact match was found.

Written by Administrator

Friday, 12 February 2010 10:38

In case you have users from several domains to be added to site (WSS/MOSS) you might get error when you search for them via people picker : No exact match was found.
This is because "security" of the WSS, to solve this issue you have to create and specify user that exists on those domains to allow search within those domains.

INSTRUCTIONS:

0. Create user in EVERY (even in working one) domain. Set password for them.

1. If the AD domain has a 1-way trust and you need to specify a username and password, execute the following commands on every server in the farm:

stsadm –o setapppassword –password MyPassword (ensure you use the same password for each server you execute this command on!)

1.a. On every WFE in the farm execute the following command to instruct the people-picker to use the corret AD domain:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv domain:YourDomain.com,domain\user,password –url relevant web application (you need to run this for each web application and each domain)

Note: you can specify mulitple domains to lookup as well, just encapsulate the domain names in quotation marks and seperate them with a semi-colon (-pv “YourDomain1.com;YourDomain2.com”,domain\username,password)

2, If the AD domain has a 2-way trust you do not need to run the stsadm –o setapppassword command, just execute this one:

2.a. On every WFE in the farm execute the following command to instruct the people-picker to use the corret AD domain:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests -pv domain:YourDomain.com,domain\user,password –url relevant web application (you need to run this for each web application and each domain)

To confirm all is set for your application use getproperty command:

stsadm -o getproperty -url http://yourApplication -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests

you will get following output if it is OK

Not sure you have to do IISRESET..

Rollback:

If you need to reset the people-picker back to normal, just execute this command:

stsadm -o setproperty -pn peoplepicker-searchadforests –pv (don’t specify anything here) –url relevant web application (you need to run this for each web application, and domain)

Thanks to : http://suguk.org/blogs/sharepointhack/archive/2009/02/05/16960.aspx

Cheers KbNk;