Hi, I'm tasked to provide some people search application. One of the hardest requirements to implements is to allow search of people which are not in SharePoint... Some people in the organization are not in the AD so they never being imported. I want to enjoy SharePoint people search capabilities without writing custom code or contacts lists. Can I add users to SharePoint which are not in the AD? I can add users manually in the SSP, however the form requires user account name and it tries to validate the existence of this account name... Maybe I should create one more authentication provider and register that users in some external DB (for authentication)? Thanks in advanced, Johny...

Hi Yonatann, By default, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 can import a list of domain users from the Active Directory directory service, LDAP server, or the Business Data Catalog. In addition, you can write code against the Office SharePoint Server 2007 object model to import information from other directory services or applications. You can schedule regular imports to the user profile store, and these can be incremental or full. In order to be able to add non-AD users to SharePoint, you must set up Custom Authentication. Take a look at the links I posted below to get an overview / how-to setup custom authentication within SharePoint. SharePoint 2007 Forms Authentication http://weblog.vb-tech.com/nick/archive/2006/06/14/1617.aspx Configuring Multiple Authentication Providers for SharePoint 2007 http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint/archive/2006/08/16/702010.aspx Enabling Custom Authentication for SharePoint 2007 http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/10917_3622481_1 For more information about importing user profiles, please refer to the following article: Importing User Profiles http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms585156(office.12).aspx Regards, Rock Wang Microsoft Online Community Support