Sharepoint audience targeted items no longer showing for specific people due to Organizational Unit was renamed,

Question

we found one day that audience targeted items were no longer showing for specific people.
 After a bit of troubleshooting, we discovered that one of the active directory domain groups that we were using was in an Organizational Unit (OU) that had been renamed. 
After a bit more research, it appears that whenever a profile import occurs in SharePoint and the corresponding membership import occurs, SharePoint stores all the domain group membership in
a database table in the SSP database called MemberGroup.  This table stores all the groups with a corresponding count and the group's canonical name. 
When the group's canonical name changes in active directory SharePoint finds the new group and adds it as a duplicate entry into the table, and orphans the old record. 
However, the audience rules still point to the old record, which is no longer valid and the audience compiles without any members.
http://vspug.com/mcotw/2008/07/28/do-you-use-sharepoint-audiences-beware-of-ad-changes/#comment-83
looking for solution for this problem ?

Answer 1

Hi,
There is a way to restore Membership information synchronization between content database and profile database for all site collections. How to do this is described in a microsoft support case:
http://www.google.no/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&frm=1&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fkb%2F2703630&ei=4QFNU9yLGKfS4QSbvoDoBw&usg=AFQjCNFPI949Iehb8nObcQlkMf5BdfixDA&sig2=JiNfXlHX4Tf8VCS_sxvBog
Hope this can be helpful.
Heidi Lillebuen