{"id":1691,"date":"2016-11-25T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itgroove.net\/mmman\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2023-02-24T21:39:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T21:39:33","slug":"the-specified-user-or-domain-group-was-not-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/2016\/11\/25\/the-specified-user-or-domain-group-was-not-found\/","title":{"rendered":"The Specified User or Domain Group Was Not Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was seeing some odd behaviour on a client site a while back.  Below is a list of the various issues I was seeing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div>When trying to insert a link into a web page\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/11\/112516_0338_TheSpecifie1.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I was seeing the following error.\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/11\/112516_0338_TheSpecifie2.png\" alt=\"\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>Also in the ULS, I was seeing the following issue.\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-left: 27pt\">System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException: Some or all identity references could not be translated\n<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Additionally, all Publishing sites were failing (I couldn&#8217;t even go to a brand new site collection I just created, after having activated the publishing site collection feature)\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It turns out the issue was that I had used the wrong accounts for the publishing accounts in PowerShell.  See below.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I had used these accounts\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Courier New\"><span style=\"color:#ed7d31;font-size:10pt\">$w.Properties[&#8220;portalsuperuseraccount&#8221;] = &#8220;i:0#.w|domain\\spsuperuser&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Courier New\"><span style=\"color:#ed7d31;font-size:10pt\">$w.Properties[&#8220;portalsuperreaderaccount&#8221;] = &#8220;i:0#.w|domain\\spsuperreader&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt\">Instead of these (which were the accounts the client had <em>actually<\/em> supplied)<\/span>\n\t<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Courier New\"><span style=\"color:#ed7d31;font-size:10pt\">$w.Properties[&#8220;portalsuperuseraccount&#8221;] = &#8220;i:0#.w|domain\\<span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>sp13_<\/strong><\/span>superuser&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Courier New\"><span style=\"color:#ed7d31;font-size:10pt\">$w.Properties[&#8220;portalsuperreaderaccount&#8221;] = &#8220;i:0#.w|domain\\<span style=\"background-color:yellow\"><strong>sp13_<\/strong><\/span>superreader&#8221;<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As soon as I corrected these, all the issues went away.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Strangely the issue I was seeing in point #1 above was failing on SP2013 on a non-publishing site.  The lesson is, always use the correct accounts.  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was seeing some odd behaviour on a client site a while back. 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