SharePoint 2016 People picker not showing windows accounts

Question

We are using SharePoint 2016 and have two web applications (WebAPP1 and WebAPP2) on the farm. Currently both the web apps people picker works fine. Domain for both the web apps is DomainA. we are trying to give access to single account which is a windows account ending with DomainB. This DomainB account is showing up fine on Web APP1, while trying to find on WebAPP2 it shows "there is no match". I checked the $webapp.peoplepickersettings on both web apps and looks similar. DO I need to do any changes or configurations to make this account available on peoplepicker of webAPP2.

Please suggest on this .

Answer 1

Use following powershell to add Domain B in the specific web application people picker settinggs to check the result:

Add-PSSnapin microsoft.sharepoint.powershell
$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://server:port

# Save current PP settings to the text file in case you need to refer to those
$webapp.PeoplePickerSettings.SearchActiveDirectoryDomains | Out-GridView

$webapp.PeoplePickerSettings.SearchActiveDirectoryDomains.Clear()
    
$newdomain = new-object Microsoft.SharePoint.Administration.SPPeoplePickerSearchActiveDirectoryDomain
$newdomain.DomainName ='yourDomain.com';  # specify the DNS name
$newdomain.ShortDomainName ='yourDomain'; # Specify the netbios name.
$newdomain.LoginName ='yourDomain\sp_farm'
$newdomain.IsForest='true'
$webapp.PeoplePickerSettings.SearchActiveDirectoryDomains.Add($newdomain)
$webapp.update()