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You do not have the option to list users according to organizational unit when you add users to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

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Article ID: 931349 - Last Review: May 14, 2007 - Revision: 1.1

You do not have the option to list users according to organizational unit when you add users to a Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site

SYMPTOMS

When you add users to a Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 site, you do not have the option to list users according to the organizational unit (OU) that they belong to in Active Directory.

CAUSE

This behavior occurs because the People Picker control in Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 does not include an option to list users or to search for users who are located in a particular OU.

WORKAROUND

To work around this behavior, use the Stsadm.exe command-line tool to configure the People Picker control to list only the users who are already in the site collection. To do this, follow these steps:
  1. Click Start, click Run, type cmd, and then click OK.
  2. Type the following lines at the command prompt. Press ENTER after each line.
    cd /d %commonprogramfiles%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\12\Bin

    stsadm.exe –o setproperty –url URL -pn “peoplepicker-onlysearchwithinsitecollection” –pv “yes”
  3. Type exit to exit the command prompt.
Note By default, the –pv “yes” setting is enabled and is required for Active Directory Account Creation Mode. By default, the setting is turned off for all other configurations.

MORE INFORMATION

After you complete the steps in the "Workaround" section, you can still add a user who belongs to a different OU. You can do this if you know the fully qualified logon name of the user.

APPLIES TO
  • Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
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