People Picker:’ Select People and Groups’ finder doesn’t find users from site collection

Question

Environments(test/production):

Production: • MOSS 2007 Ent. SP2 (2008 r2 x64)

• 1x App(2008 r2 x64)

• 2x WFE(2008 r2 x64)

• 1x SQL 2008 (2008 r2 x64)

• Profile import will find users and import is successful every time

Test:

• MOSS 2007 Ent. SP2 (2003 r2 x64)

• 1x App(2003 r2 x64)

• 2x WFE(2003 r2 x64)

• 1x SQL 2005 (2003 r2 x64)

• Profile import will find users and import is successful every time

Problem:

‘Select People and Groups’ finder cannot find any users who are not visited on the site. Only when user is visited and contributed some action on the site then user(s) can be found in the ‘Select People and Groups’ finder (Site Setting people picker)

Our test environment will find users who are not visited on the site if the fresh user`s profile is import to the MOSS SSP.

This problem should not be even Active Directory Related…

Is there any solution or workaround for this problem?

I can provide more information about the environments if it would help...

thx in advance

UPDATE: Installing latest MOSS 2007 CU did the trick and all are well. Thanks for your answers

Answer 1

Copying the original poster's answer so we can mark this answered:

Installing latest MOSS 2007 CU did the trick and all are well. Thanks for your answers

Answer 2

(sorry I can't ask this in a comment because I'm new)

Does your test environment include the builtin group Authenticated users, or maybe Domain users (actually any group where all users are a potential member) ?

Answer 3

a few questions:

• How do you and the other users authenticate to MOSS (NTML, FBA, etc...)
• Do the users that you can't find via people picker, have been granted access to the site collection?