Audiences Fails to Resolve Security Groups When Being Added

When using audiences to set up to trim the top link bar on a MOSS team site.

When you adds more than one Active Directory security group to the audience for the navigation link and saves the settings, the audience only works for the last group in the list.

For example:

1. On a collaboration portal site, go to site actions | site settings | modify navigation.

2. Click Add link.

3. Give it a title, URL and click the browse button next to audience.

4. Choose Distribution/Security Groups add three AD groups and click ok.

5. Notice that the groups look like they resolve (they're underlined) and click ok.

6. Click OK on the Navigation Settings page to save the changes.

7. Go back to the Navigation Settings page.

8. Click you new link and choose edit.

Notice the names of the first two audiences are messed up.  Only the last group in the list still resolves.  For example, I added groups called firstgroup, secondgroup, and thirdgroup.  When I go back and look at the audience settings for the new link, I see the following.

cn=firstgroup,cn=users,dc=domain,dc=local ;

cn=secondgroup,cn=users,dc=domain,dc=local ;

ThirdGroup

The main issue is that only the group that resolves (the last group in the list) actually works when it comes to presenting the link to the designated audience.  For example, in my example above, only members of ThirdGroup will be able to see the link.

Resolution

Pending Hotfix