Audience Targeting problem in Quick Launch Links
Hi Everybody, Currently I am facing problem in Audience Targetting for Links in Quick Launch. I have few AD groups which are added as an user in SharePoint groups with a contribute permission. No AD user added in sharepoint group directly. So at the time of Links creation for Quick Launch from Navigation option of site settings, I have mentioned the sharepoint group in Audience Target textbox. I can logged-in successfully in sharepoint site using AD User which added in necessary AD group. But that user can't see the links. But if I add that user directly in sharepoint group, I can see that links which is audience targeted. I have searched a lot regarding this problem, And I found one linl regarding this solution http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;948681 But this link suggest that this hot fix is for Sharepoint 2007 SP1, But I have already installed SP2 on my machine. So I unable to apply that hot fix. So please please help me regarding this problem. How can I solve this AD group related problem
February 10th, 2010 3:20pm

Hi Harshad, How deep are the groups you are using nested, in other words do the AD groups, contain groups, contain groups, that contain users? Are you choosing an Distribution / Security Group (AD Group), SharePoint Group or Global Audience as the Audience type.. Are you able to use the same group successfully on another webparet or list?Cheers,-Ivan Ivan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.
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February 14th, 2010 3:40am

HI Ivan, I have a similar problem, I hope you can help me? I wish to limit the audience on a Quick Launch link to an AD Universal Security Group. That AD group has all it's members added directly to it (no group nesting) but members of that AD group can't see the Quick Launch link. I have sucessfully used many other AD groups to restrict access to/reveal Quick Launch links on the same SharePoint site. Just this group is problematic. There has been no change to AD since the groups that work and this group were created and the new (blocked) group is identical in its AD characteristics to other AD groups that do work for this purpose. I can use the problematic AD group to manage access to sites etc. it just doesn't work on Quick Launch Audiences. I originally couldn't get this problem AD group to show at all the the Quick Link Audience picker but I solved that by changing the User Profile import from Auto-discovering the Domain Controller to specifying the actual server I wanted used as the Domain Controller and started full import as per: http://geekswithblogs.net/WorldofTray/archive/2009/12/10/fix-security-groups-and-distribution-lists-are-missing-users-from.aspx . This caused the AD group to show in the Quick Launch Audience Picker and I can add the group to the Audience on the link but still members of the AD group can't see the link. So I tried creating an Audience in the SSP using the AD group but it had the same effect. Everything seemed to work fine: The Audience compiled, I could see all the members in the audience, and I could apply the Audience to the Quick Launch Audience sucessfully. But Still the members of the AD group can't see the link! I have only found this page: http://sharepointfx.blogspot.com/2011/06/ad-security-groups-not-showing-in-web.html that relates to this issue but it describes editing the SharePoint SQL databases and I'm unwilling to try it. Could you please help? Thanks, Kirsten Kirsten Mayer
June 30th, 2011 8:59am

Hi Kirsten, We see this behaviour if contacts or any non user or group type object is also a member of the group or when it is too nested.. No, please do not ever edit the ContentDb directly always use the SharePoint OM. Yes you should perform a incremental and full crawls of AD on a schedule. Can you use the Group with any type of audoence like applied to a WebPart? -IvanIvan Sanders My LinkedIn Profile, My Blog, @iasanders.
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July 6th, 2011 8:09am

Hi, Does your Sharepoint group have access permissions to the site? I had this issue where I created a new Sharepoint group and targeted a webpart to this group but it would not work. I didn't specify permissions when I created this group because all the users in the group would have already had enough permission to access the site. I specified the permissions in the site permissions bit (gave read access) and this fixed it for me.
February 29th, 2012 5:39pm

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