SharePoint 2007 - Audience Targeting - Domain Groups : Sharepoint

I have a SharePoint 2007 site with its web parts protected with Audience
Targeting.
I've configured each of the web parts on my site to use audience targeting
so that only specific SharePoint groups can see specific web parts. The
membership of these groups consist of domain users and domain groups. The
targeting works fine for the domain USER members of the SharePoint groups.
However, the domain GROUP members can not see any of the web parts. How can I
setup SharePoint audience targeting so that I can maintain the targeted
membership using Active Directory groups? We want all group membership to be
maintained using Active Directory groups that are in turn members of
SharePoint groups defining the permissions and targetting.

Any advice would be appreciated.
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Mark

Hello Mark,

Did you use Form authentication?

If so, you need to configure the Shared Services Provider to import the
User Information from AD.

Hope this helps.


Sincerely,

Wei Lu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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No form based authentication is being used. I am only using AD groups as
members of the SharePoint groups which in turn are referenced by the web part
targeting.

Thanks-
--
Mark

Mark,
have you build a profile in the SSP?

Thats how i use content targeting.

Import groups from AD in sharepoint profile, and then use content targeting
to those groups.

Hope this helps!

/Daniel Bugday

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> No form based authentication is being used. I am only using AD groups as
> members of the SharePoint groups which in turn are referenced by the web
> part
> targeting.
>
> Thanks-
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> Mark

Hi ,

How is everything going? Please feel free to let me know if you need any
assistance.

Sincerely,

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Hi ,

How is everything going? Please feel free to let me know if you need any
assistance.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
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Mark,
I have exactly your problem (as you, I do not want "import" in SSP from AD...). Do you have understand and/or solved this issue ? There are some answer from Microsoft ? Thanks a lot (by carlornd@libero.it).

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Ok I have a simalar problem...

I have a Org with offices in separate location. Each of these locations has a seperate Domain (ORG = ABC, Domains = 1,2 and 3). Typical Org....

Set up MOSS (Standard) and completed the Profile Import from the forest (ABC) and all works well. 13,700+ profiles from Domains 1,2 and 3. Good to go.

The Security Groups used are in Domain 1. MOSS is in Domain 1. The users access the page and the default navigation and security combination creates the typical "dashboard" and links (No access = not viewable).

I am setting up Audiences using the same AD Groups used for permissions and housed in Domain 1, to create a dashboard and personalize the look and feel.

The problem is I only get the members of the local domain (Domain 1) in the Audience.

Let's take this a step further...
The web part shows fine and works correctly for those in the local domain. The Audience recognizes the local accounts in the AD Security Group and compiles them. However, the compilation will not recognize the users in the trusted domains (2 and 3).

But…. If I add a rule to the Audience for the “Account Name” and point to a user in domains 2 & 3 the Audience compiles and pulls the user into the Audience.

The SSP Service has read access to the entire forest.
Does it need more access than that for the Audience compilation since the Security Groups (the Audiences are compiling against) are in the local Domain?

What I mean by this is:
I have been able to do a Full Profile Import for the entire Forest.
I am also able to add the individual user from domains 2 and 3 into the Audience if I set a rule for that users Account name.
I just cannot seem to get the Audiences to recognize the users from Domains 2 & 3 from within the local Security Groups during compilation by using the AD Groups in the rule.

My Profile Import completes and DOES pull in all users in the forest.

Which again brings me to the GPO’s. We are running GPO’s and they were a problem for importing before but we corrected that problem and we are able to import the users’ profiles and compile the audiences. I confirmed the service accounts had access to ‘reg.exe’ and all works fine.

Search works fine.
Profile Imports work fine.
The People Picker works fine.
Audiences even compile and pull in the locals …… but…. No the users of the remote domains are not added to the Audience.

"Been there, Done That's"
Post SP1 Install Event Log Error: Invalid object name 'AR_CacheCounters' : SharePoint - Setup, Upgrade, Administration and Operation : SharePoint Products and Technologies : Microsoft TechNet Forums = No resolution

Reconfigured the import for granularity (HQ - Top Level and Local) = No resolution

"Share"-Point: Audience compilation in a multi forest environment = Actual Setup and same problem as the responder - Ying = No resolution

Add users from multiple forest domains = Good to go - Profiles import fine.


PLEASE HELP!!!!

I have the exact issue that barabbasr is describing below. When compiling audiences, the DL's and Groups are only showing users from the local domain and not the child domains. So I have users trying to target content using a DL that contains 100 users, but it is only seeing the 10 users that are in the local domain that the SharePoint server is in. Does anyone have any recommendation for this? I am running SP2 with the June update. PLEASE HELP!

Hello,

i have exactly the same issue.
did you find any solution to that problem ?