INFORMATICS

PowerShell Script to convert SID to Domain User

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# Pre-requisite : SID.txt is the text file containing SID's to be resolved 
# Output File   : UID.txt 
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Out-File UID.txt 
foreach ($SID in (Get-Content SID.txt)) 
{ 
    $objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier ($SID) 
    Try 
    { 
        $objUser = $objSID.Translate( [System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]) 
        $objUser.Value >>UID.txt 
    } 
    Catch 
    { 
        $SID >>UID.txt 
    } 
} 



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another script for Convert Group/User Name to SID:

Syntax:

  $Name = “Group or User Name” 

 (New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($Name)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]).value

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or

$user ='TestDomainMorgan'
$objUser = New-Object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount($user)
$objSID = $objUser.Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier])
Write-Host "Resolved user's sid: " $objSID.Value

another script for Convert SID to Group/User Name:

Syntax:

$Name = “SID ID” 

 (New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($Name)).Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount]).value

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or

$SID ='S-1-5-21-1924530255-1943933946-939161726-500'
$objSID = New-Object System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier($SID)
$objUser = $objSID.Translate([System.Security.Principal.NTAccount])
Write-Host "Resolved user name: " $objUser.Value

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