Dear Community,I have setup the people-picker-searchadcustomquery property for a sitecollection. Now, I would like to reset this setting. What should I do to change the propery to:<Property Exist="No" />Setting the property to <Property Exists="Yes" Value "" /> works but isn't a fine solution.Best regards,Lucian

Hi Lucian,You can set this value via the api, instead of using stsadm.For example using (SPSite site = new SPSite("http://somesite")) { SPWebApplication app = site.WebApplication; app.PeoplePickerSettings.ActiveDirectoryCustomQuery = null; app.Update(); } After running you should find the <Property Exist="No" /> as desired.What I find interesting is that this property doesn't seem to be a property that belongs to a site collection, but the entire web application. I think I'm going to have to do some more research into this property.Hope that helpsPaul.

Hi Paul, thank you for your answer. Your solution has helped me. But it would be much easier to do that without code. Unfortunately it's not implemented in the stsadm.exe Best regards,Lucian

I know that is unfortunate. When I get some spare time I might write an stsadm extension for handling this. Something like stsadm -o deleteproperty -pn "..." Another alternative would be to write a PowerShell cmdlet to run the code mentioned above.