Unable to access trusted domain accounts in people picker

bryan — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:14:05 +0000

For several weeks we have been wrestling with an issue where a client’s MOSS install was not able to see the accounts in a trusted domain (two way trust). The server itself could resolve the accounts just fine, for instance if you were to set file system ACL permissions you could select accounts from the trusted domain without any issue, but if you tried to locate one of those accounts via the SharePoint people picker dialog, it would not locate the account. Netmon captures revealed that the lookup was making it to the DC and the response was a populated as you would expect, but still, no workie. Several stsadm.exe -o setproperty commands later and several server rebuilds, still no luck.

Finally today my colleague Stephen Rea was able to locate the issue and resolve it. As is often the case, seemingly complex issues turn out to be caused by very simple oversights. In this case, the trusted domain had been setup in DNS for the resource domain as a secondary domain. Secondary domains hosted on Windows DNS servers going across a WAN link typically perform erratically. Simply forwarding the DNS requests for the trusted domain over to the trusted domain DNS servers resolved the issue and SharePoint immediately behaved as expected.

Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex

bryan — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:35:41 +0000

I spent some time on CodePlex today researching the latest open-source SharePoint projects. I probably haven’t peeked through CodePlex in the past 6 months, and I was very encouraged by the quantity of projects out there. Following are the ones of particular interest to me:

SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard

http://spdeploymentwizard.codeplex.com/

The SharePoint Content Deployment Wizard is a tool for SharePoint 2007 which provides the means to deploy the following content:
- site collections
- webs
- lists
- folders
- list items (including files)
Content is exported using the Content Migration API (PRIME) as a .cmp file (Content Migration Package) which can be copied to other servers for import. Unlike the out-of-the-box tools, the Wizard allows *granular* selection of content via a treeview.

SharePoint Access Checker Web Part

http://accesschecker.codeplex.com/

Quickly check what objects within a Sharepoint site hierarchy a user has access to.

The Access Checker Web Part is a Windows Sharepoint Services Web Part, for use within Windows Sharepoint Services v3 and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007, that displays a tree view showing permissions on objects for a user scoped to a Site hierarchy. It also has a second mode which will show the permission inheritance of objects within a Site hierarchy.

SharePoint ULS Log Viewer

http://ulsviewer.codeplex.com/

A windows application for viewing SharePoint ULS log files more easily. Supports filtering and easy viewing of data.

SLAM! SharePoint List Association Manager

http://slam.codeplex.com/

Most developers who have used SharePoint as an application development framework have run into the realization that SharePoint is NOT a relational database. In fact, the accepted wisdom is if you need relational tables, use ASP.NET/SQL straight-up, not SharePoint.

Enter SharePoint List Association Manager (SLAM). In short it allows you to define relationships (one to one, one to many, many to many) between SharePoint lists (or Content Types) and then leverage those relationships in webparts or custom field types using familiar and straight forward SQL queries.

Have I missed any? Please comment if there is a “must have” (except WSPBuilder of course, everyone knows that ) I have omitted!

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Unable to access trusted domain accounts in people picker

Promising SharePoint projects on CodePlex