In the original configuration, I have a SharePoint 2007 site hosted on Windows Server 2003/32 bit server. I configured it to use Forms Authentication with ActiveDirectoryMembershipProvider and LdapRoleProvider. I configured the PeoplePickerWildCard tags in the web.config. Now, this all worked fine and everything is great.
I then tried to duplicate this configuration on our production servers. The big difference is that the production server is a Windows Server 2008 R2/64 bit machine with IIS 7.5. The Membership/Role providers are the same configuration, but I can't seem to get the people picker to work at all. I even did a full user profile import (I'm not sure if this is nessessary, but I tried it anyway).
Now, although the people picker doesn't work, authentication does work. I am able to log in with the Form Authentication form, but I get the access denied error. Is there anything that needs to be configured differently on Windows Server 2008 R2?
EDIT:
I've modified the SharePoint website web.config, setting the defaultProvider for both the Membership and Role provider. I also modified the CA web.config, but didn't set the defaultProvider on either the Membership or Role provider. I added the People Picker wild cards to both the SharePoint site and the CA, since I thought it was needed for both. My Domain Controller is on a different box. I'll check out the links to see if I can find anything I forgot.
Thanks for your help!