IsMemberOfAudience funcThe IsMemberOfAudience function returns an unsuccessful result even though the user is an audience member in SharePoint Porttion returns an unsuccessful result even though the user is a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 audience member (827844)

SYMPTOMS

When you call the IsMemberOfAudience function to return the membership status of a user in a SharePoint Portal Server 2003 audience, the call returns an unsuccessful result (fails) even though the user is a member of that audience.

CAUSE

This problem may occur if the audience member has a name that contains characters from the Japanese language character set.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about how to deploy, configure, and manage SharePoint Portal Server, see the Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide. The Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 Administration Guide (Administrator's Help.chm) is located in the Docs folder in the root folder of the SharePoint Portal Server 2003 CD. For more information about SharePoint Portal Server, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/sharepoint/server/default.asp