Search AD by GUID

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How do I search Active Directory for objects by GUID? In other words, what would be a good way to find what objects belong to specified GUIDs?

http://serverfault.com/questions/140683/get-an-object-by-its-objectguid-using-ldapsearch Provides one method. — sysadmin1138, Sep 12 '11 at 16:51

score 18 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 12 '11 at 17:41

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Either on a DC or install RSAT and enable AD Tools:

Open "Active Director Module for Windows PowerShell" (find it in with the other Admin tools)

get-aduser -id {guid}

Or for any object:

get-adobject -id {guid}

Might want to pipe it through a format-list to make it readable:

get-adobject -id {guid} | fl

answered Sep 12 '11 at 17:41

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+1, simplest answer with native tools. If you're at a regular powershell prompt and don't want to open the AD Module for PS in the start menu you can just run `import-module ActiveDirectory` and all of the same cmdlets will be available in your powershell session. – MDMarra Sep 12 '11 at 17:57

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 12 '11 at 16:44

Using Powershell and the QuestAD cmdlets, the following code returns my user account based on my guid.

$Guid = "d65e4578-475a-422e-ac99-123456789012"

Get-QADUser -IncludeAllProperties|Where {$_.guid -eq $Guid}

Not the most efficient manner since it loads all objects from AD while doing the search, but it worked for me.

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 17 '16 at 14:37

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$guid = "d65e4578-475a-422e-ac99-123456789012"

foreach ($dom in (Get-adforest).Domains) { Get-ADObject -filter {ObjectGUID -eq $guid } -Properties * -Server $dom | fl }

edited Jun 17 '16 at 14:37

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answered Jun 17 '16 at 13:56

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Search AD by GUID

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