Saved for later reference » active directory http://www.lejordet.com online repository of stuff I had to google for hours to figure out Tue, 31 Jan 2012 19:37:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Active Directory user GUID http://www.lejordet.com/2010/07/active-directory-user-guid/ http://www.lejordet.com/2010/07/active-directory-user-guid/#comments Tue, 06 Jul 2010 13:26:36 +0000 Lars Erik Jordet http://www.lejordet.com/?p=106 I found this page which contains an old oneliner to get a user GUID in PowerShell – but sadly it doesn’t work anymore.

After some tricking around, I found the following to work:

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(new-object Guid(,(([directoryservices.directorysearcher] "(samaccountname=theuser)").findall())[0].properties["objectguid"][0])).ToString()
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