Description of the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package: March 17, 2005

This article describes the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 issue that is fixed in the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 post-Service Pack 1 hotfix package that is dated March 17, 2005.

The issue that the hotfix package fixes

This hotfix package fixes the following issue that was not previously documented in a Microsoft Knowledge Base article:

• When you view the membership of an audience, e-mail addresses are incorrectly listed next to users who were not assigned e-mail addresses in Active Directory.
  
  Consider the following scenario. You create and then compile an audience in SharePoint Portal Server 2003. You specify that the members of the audience are the members of a Windows security group in the Active Directory domain. When you click View membership to view the membership of the audience, e-mail addresses are incorrectly listed next to users who were not assigned e-mail addresses in Active Directory. The e-mail addresses that are listed next to these users are the e-mail addresses of other members of the audience.
  
  This problem occurs if the following conditions are true, in the order that they are presented:
  1. You import user profile information from Active Directory to SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
  2. You create and then compile an audience whose members are members of a Windows security group in the Active Directory domain. Some members of the Windows security group are assigned e-mail addresses, and some members of the Windows security group are not assigned e-mail addresses.
  In this scenario, even though user profile information is correctly imported from Active Directory to SharePoint Portal Server 2003, SharePoint Portal Server 2003 incorrectly processes the information that is retrieved from the Email column in the UserProfile table of the user profile database.

This problem is corrected in Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for SharePoint Portal Server 2003. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Hotfix information

A supported hotfix is available from Microsoft. However, this hotfix is intended to correct only the problem that is described in this article. Apply this hotfix only to systems that are experiencing this specific problem. This hotfix might receive additional testing. Therefore, if you are not severely affected by this problem, we recommend that you wait for the next software update that contains this hotfix.

If the hotfix is available for download, there is a "Hotfix download available" section at the top of this Knowledge Base article. If this section does not appear, contact Microsoft Customer Service and Support to obtain the hotfix.

Note If additional issues occur or if any troubleshooting is required, you might have to create a separate service request. The usual support costs will apply to additional support questions and issues that do not qualify for this specific hotfix. For a complete list of Microsoft Customer Service and Support telephone numbers or to create a separate service request, visit the following Microsoft Web site: Note The "Hotfix download available" form displays the languages for which the hotfix is available. If you do not see your language, it is because a hotfix is not available for that language.

When you view the membership of an audience after you install this hotfix, Not Available is displayed under E-Mail Address on the View Audience Membership: AudienceName page for users who are not assigned e-mail addresses in Active Directory.

Prerequisites

The following list contains prerequisites for the hotfix package:

• To install the hotfix, you must have SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1 (SP1) installed.
  
  For more information about SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
  841883  (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841883/ ) Description of SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 1

Restart information

You do not have to restart your computer after you apply this hotfix.

Hotfix replacement information

This hotfix is not replaced by any later hotfix.

Registry information

You do not have to create or modify any registry keys to enable any hotfixes that this package contains.

Hotfix file information

This hotfix contains only those files that are required to correct the issue that this article lists. This hotfix may not contain all the files that you must have to fully update a product to the latest build.

The global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. The dates and times for these files are listed in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). When you view the file information, it is converted to local time. To find the difference between UTC and local time, use the Time Zone tab in the Date and Time item in Control Panel.

Microsoft Windows Installer .msp file information
After the hotfix is installed, the global version of this hotfix has the file attributes (or later file attributes) that are listed in the following table. Note For more information about how to install this hotfix, see the Readme.txt file that is included in the hotfix package.

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.

This problem was first corrected in SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Service Pack 2.

For more information about the terminology that Microsoft uses for software that is corrected after it is released, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: