Re: Emails of AD group members are not imported from AD

I know about Security and Distribution groups, the groups I am spoking about
are global security groups, like Domain Users. I have the same behavior with
missing e-mail addresses on my development machine, on test server and on
production server also.
Can you test, please, in your environment:
1. Create a new site collection.
2. Add YourDomain\Domain Users as a member of newly created site.
3. Open the site under another login (not yours or of site owner).
4. Go to Site Settings/View information about site users.
5. Check if the user has -email address.

Thanks in advance,
Georgi Varbanov

"Asif Rehmani" wrote:

I'll take another shot at this.

There are two types of groups defined in AD. The first one is of type
"Security" and the second one is of type "Distribution List". Only
Security type of groups should be added to the sites and should have
all relevant info for the users contained within.

Please check to see if that could be causing the problem.
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Georgi wrote:
Thank you Asif,
both notes are known to me and they are not the reason for the problem ( by
the way all our domain users have email address).
Note: If I add a user directly to a site collection in format
domain\username, then SharePoint retrieves and proposes me his/her email from
AD. The only problem is with users, which have access to a site through
domain groups: their email is not imported.
I didn't find any KB which reports such behavior, and I don't know if this
problem is common or it is in "our house" only. In second case what can I do
to solve the problem?

"Asif Rehmani" wrote:

Georgi,

One thing it seems that you already realize is that a Display Name, and
Email for a user is kept at the site collection level. Meaning,
SharePoint's database keeps these fields once the user is added and
they are NOT synchronized with AD.

Second thing to note: In AD, a user object contains email in two
different places: "User Logon Name" and "Email Address" (you can see
both of these fields by opening up a user's property page in AD). Both
of these fields can be entirely different. The "Email Address" field
is optional and doesn't have to be filled. However, the "Email
Address" is the one that's pulled in when a user is entered in WSS so
if it's empty, nothing is pulled into WSS.

Please check to see if this is the issue here.

_______________________________
Asif Rehmani, MCSD.NET
Trainer / Solution Architect
SharePoint Solutions | Chicago Office
Mobile: 312-953-8475
asif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
SharePoint Training: www.sharepointsolutions.com/chicago
SharePoint 2007 Videos: www.rehmaniconsulting.com

Georgi wrote:
Scenario:
Membership to a WSS Site is done through AD Groups (ex. Domain\Domain Users,
Domain\IT etc.).
Situation:
If an user visits the site, WSS checks the permissions and adds the user to
site users collection. (Site Users collection is visible under Site Settings,
last menu item "View information about site users"). Display Name and User
Name are imported correctly from AD, but E-mail Address not.
Effects: Users must enter their E-mail Address for every site collection
they have access to, which is annoying and can cause mistakes. Until then
they cannot make subscriptions to the site lists and also another users
cannot send them E-mails direct from WSS site.

Is it a bug in WSS or is so 'by design' ?
How can I fix it ?




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