Where does SharePoint get the user information from? In Central Administration; when we click on 'Add Users' and search for a user; a Webpage Dialog 'Select People and Groups' comes up and lists all users in the window. I need to know where is this user information (Name, Title, Department...) coming from?

As per my experience, user information depends on authentication mode for which site configured for, you can check authentication mode in web.configw: blog.sandippatil.com | t: @sharesandip

Where do I find this web.config file?

Open IIS by Run -> Inetmgr Go to Sites, then select any site and right clck on it and click Explore, this will open sites virtual folder. There you will get web.configw: blog.sandippatil.com | t: @sharesandip

I am running SharePoint 2007...

Where does SharePoint get the user information from? In Central Administration; when we click on 'Add Users' and search for a user; a Webpage Dialog 'Select People and Groups' comes up and lists all users in the window. I need to know where is this user information (Name, Title, Department...) coming from? Perhaps that information comes through the SSP's User profile imports from Active Directory?

It doesn't look like that it is getting information form Active Directory.

<authentication mode="Windows" /> Based on the information above; where is it getting the user information form?

Hi, If you are using Windows authentication for your web application, the People Picker control queries Active Directory to retrieve a list of users, groups. This article has explained the people picker (although it is for SharePoint 2010:http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg602068.aspx Regards, Xue-Mei Chang TechNet Subscriber Support in forum If you have any feedback on our support, please contact tnmff@microsoft.com. Xue-mei Chang TechNet Community Support

Yes, I am using Windows Authentication but the information in People Picker (e.g. Title, Department etc) is different than what shows in the Outlook..

Could someone please help!