Configure People Picker in SharePoint 2013

You configure the People Picker web control at the zone level for a farm by using the Stsadm setproperty operation. By configuring the settings for the control, you can filter and restrict the results that are displayed when a user searches for a user, group, or claim. Those settings will apply to every site within the site collection.

The information in this article applies only to web applications that use Windows authentication in either claims mode (the default for SharePoint 2013) or classic mode.

You use the People Picker control to find and select users, groups, and claims when a site, list, or library owner assigns permissions in SharePoint 2013. People Picker is configured at the zone level for a farm by using the Stsadm setproperty operation. By configuring the settings for the control, you can filter and restrict the results that are displayed when a user searches for a user, group or claim. Those settings will apply to every site within the site collection. For more information about the People Picker properties, see Peoplepicker: Stsadm properties

This article contains information about People Picker Stsadm properties and how to configure People Picker for specific scenarios. For more information about the People Picker control and how it works, its relationship to authentication and claims providers, and how to plan for People Picker, see People Picker and claims providers overview (SharePoint 2013).
Before you perform the procedures in this article, you must do the following:

• Verify that the account that you use to run Stsadm is a member of the Administrators group on the server on which SharePoint 2013 is installed.
• Open the Command Prompt window as an administrator to perform the procedures in this article.
• In the command prompt on the drive where SharePoint 2013 is installed, change to the following directory: %COMMONPROGRAMFILES%\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\15\Bin. %COMMONPROGRAMFILES% is typically set to :\Program Files\Common Files.

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