SharePoint: Person or Group column does not display expected results when limited to a SharePoint group
Consider the following scenario: You have a SharePoint list with a Person or Group column.This column is limited to choose from a SharePoint group called (for example) Approvers. Within this SharePoint group, you have three users with (for example) first name Jeff, and one user with last name Jefferson. Within the person or
SharePoint: Troubleshooting “User cannot be found” and other mysterious user behavior
Update 11/16/20: Added PowerShell script near the end of the post that can be used to check all of your site collections for a specific User Information List problem. Some potential symptoms: You try to add a user to a SharePoint group. The account is added without error, but it doesn’t show up in the
SharePoint: People Picker shows disabled user accounts in domain migration scenario
This is one that has plagued SharePoint admins since SharePoint 2007 and earlier. There are a few other posts out there that mention this behavior, but as far as I can tell, none of them offer a complete solution. Consider the following scenario: The SharePoint farm exists in DomainB. You have users in DomainA. You