Deleted AD account issue.

[Lorr2010]

Hi
A customers AD account appears to have been deleted in error leaving
behind a large profile folder which now appears near the top of the
disk quota entries with a name as “Account information unavailable”
and Logon Name as “S-1-5-21-3481……”. Any ideas how can I locate this
accounts profile folder from a very large number of entries that
exist?
Thanks for your help here.
L

[Jason Webb]

Right click my computer on the server the user logs into, go to properties and find the user profiles button (I think it's in the advanced tab). Match the use account with what you see and delete the profile.

Thank you,

Jason Webb | IT Helpdesk
DD&S Companies, Inc.
jw...@ddandscompanies.com

P: 800.394.2767 ext. 9-1199
F: 800.729.8081

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[Lorr2010]

Jason
This only seems to work for local accounts but not domain accounts.
L

On 4 Oct, 18:40, Jason Webb <jge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Right click my computer on the server the user logs into, go to properties and find the user profiles button (I think it's in the advanced tab). Match the use account with what you see and delete the profile.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Jason Webb | IT Helpdesk
> DD&S Companies, Inc.
> jw...@ddandscompanies.com
>
> P: 800.394.2767 ext. 9-1199
> F: 800.729.8081
>

[Jason Webb]

Check on another users profile folder location \\servername\profiles folder\username and if you know the deleted username, shouldn't it exists still as the username? Delete the folder from there.

Or you could filter the disk quota by date and see if it matches about the time the account was removed.

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[Lorr2010]

Jason
The profile folder we are looking for does still exist, as it is
showing on the profile disk quota display.

As the AD account has been deleted (With no idea when), the profile
folder now only shows on the disk quota display with a S-1-5-21...
login name. So we have no idea what the actual profile folders name
is, only its S-1... name and its size.

As Windows does not display a folder size by default it will be
difficult to locate the folder this way and being unable to translate
the S-1... into a name we are have having problems locating the
folder.

As an update, there are third party folder size utilities available
but with 1000s of profile folders to sort through they cannot seem to
cope (Well not the one I have tried).

There is also a MS ‘Get SID’ tool that can translate a SID into a name
but I have not managed to work out how to use this for a domain
account.

Thanks for your input.
L



On 16 Oct, 15:29, Jason Webb <jge...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Check on another users profile folder location \\servername\*profiles folder
> *\username and if you know the deleted username, shouldn't it exists still

> as the username? Delete the folder from there.
>
> Or you could filter the disk quota by date and see if it matches about the
> time the account was removed.
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[Jason Webb]

Check out both of these sites. I haven't had to use them, but look pretty good as one of them is from Microsoft's TechNet site and another has info about the PowerShell:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff730940.aspx - see the section here labeled

Determining Which Account a SID Belongs to

http://blogs.technet.com/b/heyscriptingguy/archive/2010/10/12/use-powershell-to-translate-a-user-s-sid-to-an-active-directory-account-name.aspx

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