Get the SID of an Active Directory User
Can’t remember why I needed to, but if you need to get the SID of an Active Directory user account you can run either of these powershell scripts: $name = “username” (New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($name)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).value or $objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount(“fabrikam”, “kenmyer”) $strSID = $objUser.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) $strSID.Value