Defining Roles from accounts in multiple active directory domains

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RikusTM - 21 Feb 2005 16:05 GMT

Our company consists of 5 domains in a single forest and we are
implementing a workflow solution with Infopath as user interface.

I have noticed that when designing forms and defining roles I can only
select accounts that are in the same domain as the computer on which
Infopath is running.

As a workaround I have tried creating a group in the local domain with
users form other domains as members, but it does not seem to recognise
those users as part of a role when they open the form.

Does anyone have any experiences of using roles in a cross domain
environment?

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rikustm - 01 Mar 2005 15:24 GMT

Finally got an answer on this. This seem to be a bug with the "Select
one or more users" selector button where it cannot find users in other
domains. Without using the button, you can manually type accounts in
DOMAIN\username notation into the User Names textbox. Multiple accounts
to be seperated by semicolons. We have tested this and the roles are
assigned correctly.

I've been told that you can use the user principle name as well (email
address format) but this I have not tested.

> Our company consists of 5 domains in a single forest and we are
> implementing a workflow solution with Infopath as user interface.
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> Does anyone have any experiences of using roles in a cross domain
> environment?

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