PeoplePickerSettings.SearchActiveDirectoryDomains not showing anything in SharePoint

Question

I am trying to add another domain in SharePoint People Picker but before that I want to see what current setting is. So, I ran the following commands, but it is not displaying anything on screen. Is this normal? Shouldn't it show what my current People Picker settings are?

Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
$webApp = Get-SPWebApplication http://MyWebApplication
$webApp.PeoplePickerSettings.SearchActiveDirectoryDomains

Answer 1

Hi @Frank Martin

You could try this cmdlet to get the People Picker settings of the Web Application.

Get-SPPeoplePickerConfig
   -WebApplication <SPWebApplicationPipeBind>
   [-AssignmentCollection <SPAssignmentCollection>]
   [-WhatIf]
   [-Confirm]
   [<CommonParameters>]

For more information, you could refer to:

[https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/sharepoint-server/get-sppeoplepickerconfig?view=sharepoint-server-ps

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