The sharepoint server is a domain controller and it has many following structure in ad domain(root) staff(OU) consultants(OU) I need the people picker to only point to staff in the central admin under user profiles i have set the user profile connections to OU=staFF,OU="TEST,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM. I need people picker to only get the staff names in the people . I used stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -path OU=staFF,OU="TEST,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM -url http://server stsadm -o setproperty -url http://server -pn peoplepicker -serviceaccountsdirectorypaths -pv OU=staFF,OU="TEST,DC=DOMAIN,DC=COM both the stsadm commands worked without any error Is there something that i am missing

Hi, try this: stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -path "OU=Staff,DC=Domain,DC=com" –url http://server/sites/teamsite http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263328(office.12).aspx and then stsadm -o setproperty -url http://server/sites/teamsite -pn "peoplepicker-serviceaccountdirectorypaths" -pv "OU=Staff,DC=Domain,DC=com" http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263012(office.12).aspx Don't forget the "". Cheers,Daniel Bugday Web: SharePoint Forum Blog: SharePoint By Bugday

Hi Guys Thankyou for the response i did try the two stsadm commands and i can still see all the users . iS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.