Problems creating an audience from AD group names containg underscores

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Has any one run into this problem:

I have AD security groups that contain underscores "_" in place of spaces,
for the group names. When I try to create SharePoint Audience based on user
membership in these groups which contain underscores in the group name, the
server never adds the users from these groups and returns a "no error"
status on the compilation screen. If I remove the underscores from the
group names, everything seems to work. Is this a bug in SharePoint? I find
nothing in the documentation that states that you can not use these
characters with SharePoint. This is a big deal because a large part of my
security groups contain spaces and these groups are used through out the
domain in scripts and other various places.

any info would be nice.

Jim DePascale
The Children's Institute


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