Setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath: Stsadm operation (Office SharePoint Server)

Applies To: Office SharePoint Server 2007

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Topic Last Modified: 2015-03-09

Operation name: Setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath

Description

Sets the site user account directory path to a specific organizational unit (OU) in the same domain when the url and path parameters are specified.

Note

The setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation was first introduced in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 Service Pack 1.

Syntax

stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath

-path <name of OU>

**   -url <URL name>**

Parameters

Parameter	Value	Required?	Description
path	A valid name of a distinguished OU, for example, "OU=Contoso1,DC=OSGCorp,DC=local"	Yes	The name of the user account directory.
url	A valid URL, such as http://server_name/sites/contoso	Yes	The URL of a site collection.

Remarks

When the People Picker control is used, a user's name is resolved when the Check Name icon is clicked or a list of users is displayed when the Browse icon is clicked.

If the Web application is using Windows authentication and the site user directory path is not set, the People Picker control searches the entire Active Directory to resolve users' names or find users, instead of searching only users within a particular organizational unit (OU). The setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation allows the user's directory path to be set to a specific OU in the same domain. After the directory path is set to a site collection, the People Picker control will only search under that particular OU.

If a site collection is new and an administrator uses the setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation to specify a target OU, only users under the specified path can be added to the site collection and no one else can be added to the site collection.

If users have already been added to a site collection and the setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation is run, only users under the specified path will be able to be added going forward.

Unlike the Peoplepicker-serviceaccountdirectorypaths property where multiple OUs can be specified, only a single OU can be set at a time when the setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath operation is used. As a result, this operation should only be run once per site collection.

Examples

To set a list of users to a specific OU (for example, Sales) in the Contoso Corp domain, use the following syntax:

stsadm -o setsiteuseraccountdirectorypath -path "CN=Sales,DC=ContosoCorp,DC=local" –url https://server_name