SharePoint: Deep Diving with Cross Forest, Multi Forest Configuration and Additional Info
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Deep Diving with Cross Forest, Multi Forest Configuration and Additional Info
From Joel Oleson’s Blog URL: http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo/archive/2007/03/08/cross-forest-multi-forest-configuration-additional-info.aspx:
Background
The people picker works in cross domain or cross forest environment. It works in both-way trust and one-way trust environment.
Out of the box, if the admin does not do any configuration, the people picker will issue queries to all two-way trusted domains and two-way trusted forests to search people & groups.
The people picker uses the application pool account to search the target domains and forests. If the application pool account does not have permission to the target domains or forests, or the admin want to use different account to search the target domains or forests, the admin could should use
How to Configure
Don’t forget to run stsadm.exe –o setapppassword –password
1. Run on every WFE.
stsadm.exe -o setapppassword -password
2. Run on one WFE
stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url ...
What we have found:


















