From the Active Directory Snap-In, how can I find the GUID for a user?

Question

How ca I view the GUID associated with an Active Directory user under windows 7?

Answer 1

PsGetSid may do it.

Answer 2

This is easy to do using Active Directory Users and Computers.

Click View > Advanced Features (to be able to see Attribute Editor tab later)

Drill down to the user you want to know about and open the Properties.

Click the Attribute Editor tab

Scroll down to the "ObjectSID" or "ObjectGUID" attributes.

Profit.

Answer 3

Open powershell.

Type: get-aduser -identity <insert username here>

The ObjectGUID will appear in the output

Answer 4

I would use the ADSI Edit snap-in for the Microsoft Management Console. See Using ADSI Edit on WIN-7.

The GUID is in an Active Directory attribute called objectguid.

Answer 5

c:\windows\system32\LDP.exe

Connection -> Bind -> OK

Browse -> Search

Base DN : (this varies per environment)

Fitler: (samAccountName=yourAccountName)

Scope: Subtree (this does nested search)

Attributes : add "objectGUID"

...

That should do it.

Answer 6

In PowerShell type the following commands:

Get-ADUser -Filter * -Properties SID | where {$_.sid -eq 'number here'}

Get-ADComputer -Filter * -Properties SID | where {$_.sid -eq 'number here'}