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Fetch the SID of a user account using PowerShell

November 3, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments


If you want to find-out the SID of a Domain(or local) user using powershell, here is the code.

Get the SID of domain User:

write-host (new-object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount “domainuser”).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) -b yellow -f red

Get the SID of local User:

write-host (new-object System.Security.Principal.NTAccount “administrator”).Translate([System.Security.Principal.SecurityIdentifier]) -b yellow -f red

If you are a programming geek and want to convert this into cmdlet(say get-sid), you can find some info here at http://www.clariusconsulting.net/blogs/pga/archive/2006/08/08/643.aspx
Happy Learning,

Sitaram Pamarthi

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