People Picker not showing user results if we not entered exact

Question

We have enabled Claims authentication with LDAP membership role. Its working fine. In people picker if we enter the exact user name then only search results showing Form Auth user. otherwise not showing the users. showing error "No results were found to match your search item. Please enter a new term or less specific term."

Can you please any one help me to resolve this issue.

Answer 1

If I understood the question correctly, you will need to modify webconfig section <PeoplePickerWildcards> (to be precisier, configuration/SharePoint/PeoplePickerWildcards) to achieve this, as it described in following MSDN article:

• http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975136.aspx

The sample code:

<PeoplePickerWildcards>
  <clear />
  <add key="AspNetSqlMembershipProvider" value="%" />
  <add key="fbaMembers" value="%" />
</PeoplePickerWildcards>

Also I'd recommend you to read an essential, "must-read" article on configuring People Picker by using stsadm:

• http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg602075.aspx

, particularly, about the Peoplepicker-searchadcustomquery property.

Answer 2

For LDAP membership providers, use

<add key="fbaMembers" value="*" />