Account with GUID

[saradrb]

Why do some account have GUID instead of the username
display e.g when the membership of a group is viewed. How
to refresh so that the GUID will show the corresponding
username or group name.

 

[Mike Aubert]

That's not a GUID - it's a SID (Security Identifier)

Each user/group is identified by its SID and then the user interface tries
to substitute the correct user/group name for the SID. If the user interface
is unable to locate the user/group that corresponds to the SID then you will
just see the SID.

You could see the SID for a number of reasons. Some of these reasons
include:

- The SID is from a remote domain that is currently unavailable
- The user/group that corresponds to the SID has been removed from the
domain
- A domain was trusted at one point but no longer is (and the SID is from
the trusted domain)

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