Grant access to users from different Domains

Question

Hi,
Recently my company was merged with another. All users from my company are setup in our Domain (DomainA). Sharepoint is able to see the users in this domain and grant access to the users as well. When the merger happened, we created a Group (Test - Sharepoint)
in our AD to add groups from other companie's domain:DomainB, totally different Forest. There is a two way trust setup between these domains. The group Test-Sharepoint is "domain local" and it is able to see the groups/users from other domain: DomainB.
The other users are now able to access our sharepoint environment once access is granted to DomainA\Test-Sharepoint.
Problem came when we applied Audience targetting around few web parts. The users from DomainB who are added as object in DomainA\Test-Sharepoint (group in DomainA) are not able to see the web parts that have audience targeting for this group. Someone
suggested that AD groups should be Global or Universal but that is not our case. Most of the groups in our AD are domain local and SP is able to see the users within it.
Please suggest how we can resolve audience targeting issue?
Regards, Kapil ***Please mark answer as Helpful or Answered after consideration***

Answer 1

My apologies, yes that is correct you'll have to use Domain Local in this case. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc755692(v=WS.10).aspx
Actually what you'll need to do is not use Groups in your domain at all, as the users are Foreign Security Principals. Instead, use a group in the trusted domain, or attributes of the users you intend to target directly.
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